latest gamescope doesn’t work on Polaris (RX4xx/5xx) GPUs
I’m not sure what’s going on, I don’t think I did anything that should change the default session, but nothing is letting me return to gaming mode.
I tried the desktop shortcut “Return to Gaming Mode,” I’ve tried logging off, and I’ve even tried rebooting. It just comes back to the desktop.
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Honestly I’m not even sure how to troubleshoot this 😦 I don’t really want to reinstall but I’m not sure what else I can do at this point.
I just realized I’m on testing so I’m rebasing to stable and gonna see if that fixes it
Nope
is your user in wheel group
what happens when you do
systemctl start return-to-gamemode.service from terminalLet me try, one moment
I am in wheel. starting that service logs out of the desktop and right back in
are you on bazzite-deck:stable now?
Yes
I'd rollback to a previous commit
Rollback doesn’t work because I rebased from testing to stable, so the only previous deployment I have wasn’t good either
I should have pinned it but I’m not certain it’s an ostree thing either
what does
systemctl status return-to-gamemode.service show
I'm not familiar with systemd but I'm sure some error will show upPardon the photo, I don’t have discord set up on here
Nothing in
sudo journalctl -xeu return-to-gamemode.service eithersorry no idea
something weird happened when rebasing to testing probably
It was working fine on testing until it updated today
I would try removing the local steam installed files?
and see what happens
Where are they? ~/.steam? Steam does work in desktop mode oddly enough though
I’ll try renaming that and reboot…
.local/share/steam and .steam
there are multiple directories
.steampath I believe too
too many
seems rather a bad idea
If I launch big picture mode on the desktop it’s going at very low fps which makes me think something is up with my GPU’s drivers or something. It’s an AMD RX580 though so it should be fully supported.
GPU acceleration in steam settings is enabled?
Oh jeez, I found the problem: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/1066
GitHub
Gamescope not working on RX 580 · Issue #1066 · ublue-os/bazzite
Gamescope not working on Polaris so gamemode ui doesnt work for me, but my rx 5600 rx 6600 and rx 6400 works fine ATTENTION: default value of option vk_khr_present_wait overridden by environment. A...
then rebasing to a very old bazzite commit work maybe
before May
something like https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pkgs/container/bazzite-deck/192495857?tag=39-stable-20240318
try
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:39-stable-20240318I don’t wanna go back that far, so I’m trying 40-stable-20240424 because that’s the last day before gamescope was updated past 3.13.19 which the issue mentions was working on RX580
nice
That did fix it. But it’s very frustrating that this is broken. I’m going to try and look around the builds.
@Kyle Gospo can i poke you and ask for your thoughts? it seems like the current version of gamescope is broken on my GPU
What's your GPU?
RX580
Yes it's broken
You can rebase to an older bazzite until valve fixes it
Or rebase to the desktop build
okay, sounds good. i'll follow the upstream github issue https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/1218 and just stay on 20240424 until i see that it's updated for that
thank you!
In case someone else searches for this if they have a RX580: This issue is still existing
Latest
:testing build may resolve thisLets go!!!
Ooohhh that's great news, this might be time to get my old RX 580 some use
It's alive! 🎉
Installing updates, it's going
Also worked for me!
Solution
now on stable
thanks for testing