Steam games don't use my laptop's dGPU even though it's shown in terminal that dGPU is working
Hello, everyone! I just downloaded bazzite, but noticed that Steam games don't use my gaming laptop's dGPU and just load the iGPU. I tested it with CS2 and Super Bunny Man to see if it's not just CS2 that doesn't use the dGPU. I also tested it with Minecraft, and the game used the dGPU perfectly fine. The interesting thing is that when I use the 'nvidia-smi' command in terminal, it shows me that 3 out of 6 gb of vram are being used by CS2, but I still have low framerate and the gamescope's mangoapp shows me that dGPU is not being used at all. I also tried everything I could find on the internet and this discord server, but nothing worked. What could be causing the problem?
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dGPU is NVIDIA RTX2060 with Proprietary drivers with an index of 0; iGPU is integrated graphics of i7-10750H with an index of 1. i have 16 gb of ram
Also, for some reason these modes are not available:
i tried to switch to integrated to test the feature, but it didn't work and returned an error
what is the output of
switcherooctl?oh
the integrated graphics are the default ones
so, what should i do in this case?
and here it shows that 0 is the iGPU, 1 is dGPU
that seems right actually, weird
that is mission center
try adding
switcherooctl launch %command% to the game launch parametersalright
is the HDMI/DP connected to the dGPU?
oh it's a laptop
2060 mobile
yeah
but i have a second monitor
if the command doesn't work, try
switcherooctl launch -g 1 %command%gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -w 1280 -h 1024 -S stretch -e -f -r 144.0 --sharpness 4 --force-grab-cursor --mangoapp -- %command% switcherooctl launch -g 1 %command%
this is the launch game parameters that i used
and now it's definitely better
50 fps average
but on windows i would've had 120-140 fps
did it just not work or i did something wrong?
CS2 runs very bad on Linux yeah
ohh
And you can't run the Windows version through Proton using the Linux client, as VAC doesn't work that way
yeah, i've read that on reddit
It's possible to run full Windows Steam on wine but it's too much trouble I realized
I just reboot to Windows to play CS2 for now
mhm
i mean, i like the system
the compatibility is the single thing that's off
but still
thank you
i guess i'll dual boot or something
I'm very sad that's the one case of Valve's port of their own game :dispair:
It's the only one I have that issue, I play 99% of my library on Bazzite
oh
i'll test it with the other games then
btw, in gamescope mangoapp it still was showing 0% gpu usage
is that a bug?
It doesn't work with Intel and Nvidia GPUs afaik
Mangohud works with Nvidia, but mangoapp doesn't
ohh
thhat's 2 different things
Gamescope is not very well supported on Nvidia yet, if you are on desktop and doesn't need HDR, without gamescope is good
when i first launched the game with mangoapp, it was showing a few percent of dGPU usage every few seconds
i just used it to stretch the resolution without pixelation
the picture got pixelated for some reason
i play 4:3
I see, then you'd need it
yeah
or just play 1600x900
likei did before
but yeah
i'll use windows for cs then
thank you very much
once again
Yw!
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