Legion Go + eGPU
Guys, today my eGPU arrived and all works well on windows, drivers were installed and games run fine.
The thing is: I hate windows after tasting bazzite on this thing and I really want it to work there.
First of all, if I boot into big picture I get a black screen on my monitor. I have to go to desktop mode for it to even send the image to my monitor.
Then if I open a game it runs using my native GPU instead of the eGPU.
Steam has installed an update after I plugged in the eGPU (took 20min) and I ran a terminal command to check the gpus on the system. Both showed up but the second showed a weird name instead of NVIDIA. Can someone help? Overall I want to have the same experience I have on windows: plug in, run game
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Nvidia eGPU will likely never be supported due to Nvidia drivers being completely incompatible with game mode
Sorry
@Kyle Gospo I have the option to buy an amd GPU. Will that work without any issues? Also regarding the nvidia one: is it possible to open games using it instead of using game mode?
It may be if we made a -deck-nvidia image, but for the aformentioned reason we do not
AMD should work, we don't have the hardware to test it but 100% of the drivers needed are there
and you can select which GPU gamemode will use. It will also use switcheroo to pick the dGPU over an iGPU always when launching steam/games
So basically I need this switcheroo application with an amd card?
it's included OOTB
used for dual GPU laptops and the like
nothing you have to do to configure it
all I'm saying is I can't make promises, but an AMD eGPU should be a good experience
based on what's available
Nvidia won't
Got it. Thank you
@Kyle Gospo sorry man, one last thing: I was looking on the windows side and it seems like using an AMD card along with the Legion Go might cause some incompatibility issues and the solution is to install the 780m graphics driver. Is there a way to do the same thing on bazzite?
AMD drivers on Linux are built-in to the kernel
@nickname but it seems like I need specifically the 780m ones, can I install them without issue?
you shouldnt have to do any manual intervention on linux at all
like the driver stack will detect your hardware
you don't install specific drivers like this manually for AMD GPUs over here
I know it should work out of the box, but I’m thinking about performance. People on the legion go community say the 780m drivers are a must for AMD eGPU
The drivers you're looking for don't even exist here, that advice is most certainly Windows advice