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•Created by Corpacra ✓ on 3/21/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

Forcing Steam to run on the iGPU

Hello. I'm using cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/runtime_status to check whether my dGPU is being used (Laptop; Lenovo LOQ Intel with an RTX 4050), and shortly, every time I launch Steam, the command returns active and then it returns to suspended some 10 seconds after closing Steam, so I believe it's Steam that's causing the dGPU to start. I've tried various combinations of the following env vars:

DRI_PRIME=0
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=0
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
__VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=non_NVIDIA_only

DRI_PRIME=0
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=0
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
__VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=non_NVIDIA_only

I've tried running the Steam launcher using switcherooctl:

switcherooctl launch --gpu=0 /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/steam --file-forwarding com.valvesoftware.Steam @@u %U @@

switcherooctl launch --gpu=0 /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/steam --file-forwarding com.valvesoftware.Steam @@u %U @@

I'm using Steam as a Flatpak because I'm on Aurora, but this should apply to Bazzite as well, I think, Flatpak or not. I just don't like the Steam client (which on desktop I leave open all the the time) using the dGPU and consuming battery. Ideally, I would like to make the client run using the iGPU and SOME games run on the dGPU. I know how to force games to use the dGPU, I just don't know how to force Steam client to use the iGPU and only the iGPU. Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by Corpacra ✓ on 10/21/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help

System massively slows down after a few minutes of use

Hello. I'm using Bazzite desktop gnome NVIDIA stable. I'm using an AMD Ryzen 3 3100, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, and a MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max Mobo. I believe since the latest NVIDIA driver Flatpak updates my system works normally but after 5 minutes (or less) of use it massively slows down. Some processes (such as Firefox and gnome-shell) report using a CPU usage % above 100 while the slowdown is happening and then about 10-15 minutes later (sometimes sooner) the slowdown ceases for about 5 minutes only to be massively slowed down again. I tried booting a Ubuntu live CD to back up my entire disks in case I have to reinstall Bazzite (or worst case scenario: move to another Distro) which uses the NV drivers on Wayland and surprise surprise, I didn't have any slowdowns in 3 hours of use. I tried using Xorg instead of Wayland and the same problem still happens. This is clearly a bug, and it appears to be related to video drivers (possibly the Flatpak ones) but I'm not an expert so I can't exactly pinpoint what's going wrong. I don't even know if this is possibly the Flatpak drivers and not the ones in Bazzite. My system us fully updated. So my questions are: is there a way to roll back NVIDIA drivers in Bazzite? Is there a way to uninstall the NVIDIA drivers in Bazzite so that I can temporarily use NV and see if the problem fixes itself at least temporarily? Are there any risks in downgrade the Flatpak NVIDIA drivers while using a more recent NVIDIA driver from Bazzite? I would appreciate some help with this issue since my PC has become mostly unusable. Thank you for your time.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by Corpacra ✓ on 9/30/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help

davincibox can't update: /usr/lib64/nvidia is full

Hello. Looks like I've run into my first issue with Bazzite but this probably applies to the rest of universal blue or any other system using ujust. So I used ujust install-resolve to install DaVinci Resolve and it's worked really well so far for a few months. The issues I'm having is that whenever I use ujust upgrade / topgrade to upgrade the default davincibox I get this error:

Error: Transaction test error:
  installing package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-3:560.35.03-5.fc40.x86_64 needs 3MB more space on the /usr/lib64/nvidia filesystem
  installing package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-3:560.35.03-5.fc40.x86_64 needs 169MB more space on the /usr/lib64/nvidia filesystem

Error: Transaction test error:
  installing package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-3:560.35.03-5.fc40.x86_64 needs 3MB more space on the /usr/lib64/nvidia filesystem
  installing package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-3:560.35.03-5.fc40.x86_64 needs 169MB more space on the /usr/lib64/nvidia filesystem

I've tried dnf clean all inside the container to "free some disk space" but it was not enough. My filesystems are not full (host, guest) according to df.

Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used  Available Use% Mounted on
efivarfs              128        55         69  45% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sdb3       232766464  47762044  182127476  21% /run/host/var/home
tmpfs            16391168      5116   16386052   1% /tmp
devtmpfs             4096         0       4096   0% /dev
tmpfs            16391168     83252   16307916   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs             3278232       636    3277596   1% /run/secrets
/dev/sdb3       232766464  47762044  182127476  21% /run/host
tmpfs             6556468     10288    6546180   1% /run/host/run
/dev/sdb3       232766464  47762044  182127476  21% /run/host/var
/dev/sda3       233523196  74724560  158798636  32% /run/host/var/Windows
/dev/sdc1      3907017708 230087152 3675663152   6% /run/host/var/Data
/dev/sdb2          996780    209160     718808  23% /run/host/boot
/dev/sdb1          613160     12700     600460   3% /run/host/boot/efi
overlay         232766464  47762044  182127476  21% /

Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used  Available Use% Mounted on
efivarfs              128        55         69  45% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sdb3       232766464  47762044  182127476  21% /run/host/var/home
tmpfs            16391168      5116   16386052   1% /tmp
devtmpfs             4096         0       4096   0% /dev
tmpfs            16391168     83252   16307916   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs             3278232       636    3277596   1% /run/secrets
/dev/sdb3       232766464  47762044  182127476  21% /run/host
tmpfs             6556468     10288    6546180   1% /run/host/run
/dev/sdb3       232766464  47762044  182127476  21% /run/host/var
/dev/sda3       233523196  74724560  158798636  32% /run/host/var/Windows
/dev/sdc1      3907017708 230087152 3675663152   6% /run/host/var/Data
/dev/sdb2          996780    209160     718808  23% /run/host/boot
/dev/sdb1          613160     12700     600460   3% /run/host/boot/efi
overlay         232766464  47762044  182127476  21% /

What could be the issue here? I'm lost.

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