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•Created by Mathias Wolfbrok on 12/8/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help

Random framerate drops in Rivals of Aether II, logs seem to indicate it is using Integrated Graphics

So I am trying to play Rivals of Aether II and can manage for the most part a constant 120fps at 720p on my laptop boasting a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile (Seen in sudo lspci -v | less, however I frequently and randomly get punctual framerate dips in the 45fps, before it goes back up in the 120fps. Both Steam's System Information dialog and the game logs seem to indicate that they are using the UHD Graphics 630 instead:

Video Card:
Driver: Intel Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.2.7
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 119 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x2191
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 7.64" (15.51" diag), 34.4cm x 19.4cm (39.4cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Video Card:
Driver: Intel Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.2.7
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 119 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x2191
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 7.64" (15.51" diag), 34.4cm x 19.4cm (39.4cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Is my graphics card just not detected by Steam? And if so, how do I fix it? (And ideally the framerate issues) PS: I am using the bazzite-nvidia-open:stable branch of Bazzite

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by Mathias Wolfbrok on 10/24/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help

Cannot use NVIDIA Graphics Card, despite it being present in the list of devices

I’ve tried installing Bazzite on an older NVIDIA-powered ASUS Laptop, using the recommended ASUS image for NVIDIA, and checked the list of graphics cards installed:

bazzite@Host-005:~$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E '(3D|VGA)'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 (rev 04)
    DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 15e0
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 15e0
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

bazzite@Host-005:~$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E '(3D|VGA)'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 (rev 04)
    DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 15e0
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 15e0
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

However, when I try to run a game, it seems like the system is always trying to use the integrated graphics according to the game log, and I haven’t found any way to switch it to the dedicated GPU. This is further corroborated with the following console output:

bazzite@Host-005:~$ MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=list vulkaninfo
selectable devices:
  GPU 0: 8086:591b "Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2)" integrated GPU 0000:00:02.0

bazzite@Host-005:~$ MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=list vulkaninfo
selectable devices:
  GPU 0: 8086:591b "Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2)" integrated GPU 0000:00:02.0

Is there something I can do to have Vulkan detect my GPU, or am I out of luck and the GPU I am using is not compatible?

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