Game Mode doesn't work after update to 3.0
After the system starts up, it boots directly in Gnome instead of gaming mode. When I try to go to the gaming mode by using the menu shortcut, it fallback to Gnome again. So the gaming mode doesn't work at all.
Prior to the update I ran
rpm-ostree initramfs --disable, then I updated regularly using the system update shortcut90 Replies
what happens if you explicitly try and enter game mode from the terminal? i.e. what happens if you run
sudo /usr/bin/return-to-gamemode
Do you get a useful error message
Also have you tried rebooting?
If that doesn't work it might be worth booting into your old image and seeing if you can get into gaming mode. I think there have been quite a few issues with the Fedora 39 to 40 upgrade
I also have this problem
sometimes if i reboot i can get it to go into game mode, but the return to game mode shortcut (and executing /usr/bin/return-to-gamemode) doesn't get me there. I'm running on the
:testing tag now, and no change, for the bazzite-deck image, and had previously been on 2.5.0/f39journalctl around my `return-to-gamemode
and maybe this is useful?
@Kyle Gospo @nickname either of you got thoughts on this? there's another thread reporting similar as well
https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1233371244854775908
@im sorry i messed up again are you on an amd card?
I saw this yesterday on a 7900 GRE and Ryzen 3600x, plugged into an LG C1 with freesync. I rebased back to the last 39 build.
I’ll rebase forward again and share logs if it’s helpful.
if you can, that would be cool
@ghosttoaster trying to consolidate reports of this in one place, do you mind sharing since you started the other thread? also cc @Rumble from that thread as well. re: can't log out to game mode in bazzite 3.0.0
Looks like a kernel regression, are all of you 7xxx series?
6xxx I can confirm works
I'm on 7xxx yeah, 7900xtx
happy to run any other tests if needed
Is your display HDR?
yep
aw3423dw
If you have a non-hdr one available
over DP
I'd be very curious if that still crashes
Then we have an area of study
i don't have another display unfortunately (except my tv, which is also HDR) but I might be able to disable HDR at the monitor and test again
It just did this when I rebased back to stable.
That is for sure an HDR issue
wow, i haven't seen that!
mine just refuses to even try to go to game mode, but i did manage to get it to boot to game mode a few times (inconsistently), and at first HDR was disabled and then it seemed to work when I re-enabled it
cat ~/.gamescope-stdout.log | fpaste output here https://paste.centos.org/view/e9fb2ad7
cat ~/.gamescope-cmd.log | fpaste output here https://paste.centos.org/view/a9a071be
I went to desktop from psychadelic mode, tried the return to gamemode shortcut which failed, then snagged those logs. lemme know if there are others that would be helpful. I gotta do dad duty but I'll come back later. I bet I have a non HDR monitor I could test with in my storage room.
Jorge saw me complaining on mastodon yesterday and was very kind so I feel like I ought to help out 😅I appear to be able to get a normal, HDR-enabled game mode if I fully shut down my machine and restart, but it crashes within a few min
~/.gamescope-stdout.log: https://paste.centos.org/view/c58ee4e3
The testing branch has a much newer gamescope
Worth trying, if that still fails it's almost certainly kernel
And we'll figure it out
journalctl -u systemd-coredump* | fpaste https://paste.centos.org/view/3c2f0033
I'm actually on testing, since the other thread about this had suggested that there might be some fixes there
I'm not sure if these coredumps are helpful, but there's a lot of instances of gamemode-wl dying with mesa issues that correspond to my game mode crash timesI have this problem as well. 7900 GRE connected to HDR TV (via HDMI)
I've already discussed this some with @nickname in another thread, but I have the same issue on my HTPC (using bazzite-deck with KDE). GPU is an AMD 7800 XT, hooked up to a Samsung S90C TV.
Yes I’m on a 7900XTX
after updating my
bazzite-deck:test install to the latest as of ~20 min ago, I get this now on clicking "return to gaming mode" shortcut
yeah more details on this:
HDR related with 7900 series AMD GPUs
most likely spawned from the new kernel
rebase to
:39 for the time being for a functional deviceI'm on a 7800; I guess the issue extends to that one as well as the 7900? (I'm assuming the architecture isn't hugely different)
possibly yeah
Happy to help however I can. What logs would be helpful to you all?
7800 XT here (with an HDR-capable monitor, although not enabled). I had this issue as well, but it seems to have been resolved with the latest testing image. Tried both booting directly into game mode, as well as using the desktop shortcut. I'm using the deck image btw.
Edit: Have also tested with HDR enabled on both my monitor and game mode and KDE, and it all works fine.
I also just had success getting into game mode after rebasing to bazzite-deck:testing! (On a 7800 XT) HDR also seems fine.
I am seeing a bit of weirdness, in that Steam doesn't seem to forward resolutions to games by default, so they all think they can only display up to 720p resolution. I am able to manually set Steam's settings for each individual game to forward the correct resolution though.
Glad to hear that!
New gamescope is on the way, we can't launch it yet because of that 720p issue and some other patches we have to rebase from the older build
but once that's done I'll move it over to stable
@nickname new fix to suggest to affected users
Sweet. Yeah, I figured the 720p thing was probably an unrelated issue in the testing branch.
@Wispirr Just did a build w/ 720p patch and @antheas 's touch patch
it's building on testing now
still have to port the launch options to change panel type and external orientation before we can merge to main, at the very least
@☆ Mina ☆
:anne7: I’ll give it a try in the morning
I will also have to give it a try tomorrow
🎉
The issue does seem to be resolved for me in bazzite-deck:testing
cool, I'll update this thread when this hits stable
hopefully not too much longer
SAME I just booted into bazzite-deck-gnome:testing and was able to successfully boot and switch back and fourth into desktop mode. Huge success thanks for the hard work
Nice, gonna test on stable.
? The fix isn't on stable yet
Kyle said they'd up the thread when it is
this fix is only on testing
Yeah I meant, gonna test when it’s in stable 😉
Just updated on the testing branch, still seeing the 720p issue on my end
Yup, I can get in and out of game mode no problem on testing.
I just switched back to testing and it looks like I still get a crash on return to game mode
https://paste.centos.org/view/308326fa
It doesn’t even kick me back to KDE now, full lockup
cc @nickname lmk if I can test or give you anything else from my machine. 7900 xtx + 5950x on an hdr display, and I had hdr enabled on KDE fwiw
im just the messenger
i dont even use steam gaming mode
interesting it's broken on the latest build of
:testing
ill let the gaming mode bazzite maintainers know👍
i also noticed that even if i try to play a game from KDE desktop with hdr enabled that games don't detect that I have HDR available
obviously i have very limited experience with KDE 6, but i wonder if that's the same case for other 7xxx card users on bazzite too? I'm assuming that having HDR enabled in KDE should cause games to allow enabling HDR in the game itself. I tested with horizon forbidden west and CP2077, HDR option was grayed out/unavailable in both
anyway, back to
:39 for me, if anyone wants me to rebase and test again at any point lmkThat's expected, you need vkhdr layer which we ship
Requires manual setup
You can also use a Wayland native version of wine/proton
ah, is that in ujust?
vkhdr, that is
No, it's a pre-installed Vulkan layer package
You just need to follow their instructions in their readme
Requires specific launch options to take effect
gotcha, i was trying to find any info about vkhdr but search on this discord comes up with nothing
GitHub
GitHub - Drakulix/VK_hdr_layer: Hacks. Don't use.
Hacks. Don't use. Contribute to Drakulix/VK_hdr_layer development by creating an account on GitHub.
thank you!
We've had it since the beginning, but only recently have all the pieces come together to make this work
Updated on bazzite-deck:testing last night and the 720p issue seemed to be fixed for me. So at this point everything is working great on my end!
Just rebased to -deck:testing on my HTPC with 7900 GRE connect to HDR TV. Booted straight into game mode, games seem to run perfectly. Thank you!
Trying to have that on stable tonight or tomorrow
we're rock and a hard place -- gamescope got a massive refactor, and patches on the old version are necessary for a lot of handheld hardware we support
so a lot has to happen before it hits stable
soon!
Really appreciate the work, absolutely love bazzite.
I also ran into this issue on my setup (7900XTX, LG C2) and
:testing resolved the issue.
However, it seems to have caused a different issue, HDR+VRR no longer seems to work - the FPS counter on my TV's VRR debug menu is stuck at 118.x Hz regardless of the actual game framerate, and panning the camera slowly there is some choppiness. Turning off HDR seems to resolve the issue. HDR+VRR works on :39 though, so I'm guessing something else regressed.
I also noticed some pretty bad color banding in bright areas in a couple games I tested (Horizon Zero Dawn and FFVII Remake), so it seems like maybe HDR is broken. They look great in :39. I did notice that even on :39, if HDR is enabled system-wide but the game doesn't have HDR support, VRR is also locked at 118.x Hz. Basically need to play SDR games with HDR disabled and HDR games with HDR enabled for VRR to work. Maybe on :testing some sort of horrific HDR->SDR->HDR mapping is going on somehow?interesting, I seem to be the outlier in continuing to have crashes for game mode on testing (7900xtx)
maybe something else wacky about my config 🤔
This is hitting stable shortly
if you're affected, you're welcome to update or rebase back to stable
totally, i'll retry on stable once it's there
but i was still having issues on testing as of yesterday
Now on
stable
and in the latest ISOsWill try that in a moment, Ty!
Working well for me on stable
Now if I wake the pc up in game mode the screen starts flickering like the old CRT screen and I have to restart the pc for it to work correctly
@Kyle Gospo I definitely still get a hard crash when running return to game mode with the changes that are on stable.
ujust logs-last-boot | fpase here: https://paste.centos.org/view/9aa1c4db - any idea what's up?hard crash meaning it returns to SDDM/KDE?
like i have to reboot the entire machine
which is not the behavior i was seeing back when bazzite 3 originally released
oof
I have no clue
very weird because :39 runs totally fine
I can always open a new issue somewhere, seems like the original issue here is fixed for most people
found another person who has a 7900 AMD GPU
still has this issue
they also removed grub for refind so rolling back doesn't seem to work and they claim the TTY session won't accept input from their keyboard
Interesting
I don’t have any of those symptoms
Right now I’m on ‘bazzite:stable’ (non deck/game mode image and am just using start commands to get game mode hdr from KDE
I guess it’s mostly for deck/game mode users
Have there been any updates to this? I have the same problem, I think. I installed everything fine, then on booting to game mode I get a black screen, can't do anything, not sure how I can get back to desktop mode. Using a 6750xt and HDR monitor.
disable HDR? for now anyway, I'm running bazzite stable with RX 7900XTX and a LG 4K HDR monitor and don't have these issues, mind you HDR is awful on this monitor so I run with it disabled
Yeah, I disable HDR on mine as well. I find it pointless, unless you've got a decent OLED monitor.
Thanks. Do you mean disable the monitor's HDR output, or disable from Bazzite OS? If it's OS, not sure I can do that without reinstalling.
In the current state, I can't get to the OS, unless there is some way to force boot into desktop mode
You should be able to disable it in the display settings in bazzite
Sure, but I can't get to them. There's a blank screen on boot and not sure how to force load to desktop.
Your gonna need to drop into a tty, F2 or shift F2
Are you using gnome or KDE deaktop
I tried F2, and the Fedora login text appears, but no response from keyboard.
Using KDE
I'm thinking to just reinstall. This time will try disabling HDR before entering Game Mode
There is a setting to remember previous season you may want to disable that
Session**
Do you mean in the installation, or in KDE?
Thanks again, appreciate the help
In KDE
Ok, will have a look, cheers
I do have to start work shortly but If you get stuck and need help DM me
No luck, unfortunately. Reinstalled twice, tried HDR on and off, and still get the same black screen. I wonder if it's not related to the HDR issue.
Will try an earlier version of bazzite-deck tomorrow.
I managed to fix it by installing to a different drive. For some reason, Gaming Mode would fail on my external nvme drive. But is fine on internal SSD.