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•Created by Bugz on 8/30/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help
Strange issue with games losing focus
New Bazzite user here. Installed only a few days ago and have been setting everything up. So far, I'm absolutely loving it but unfortunately, there's an issue thats plaguing me.
This install is on a System76 Oryx Pro 8 laptop, so has an Intel iGPU and NVidia dGPU.
The games are selecting the NVidia card for use, Steam for some reason resorts to the Intel GPU (discovered via Big Picture Mode and going to About).
I figured out I can force Steam to use the dGPU by using the following command:
switcherooctl launch steam 1
Steam is still sluggish using the Nvidia GPU regardless of whatever settings I try (like disabling Hardware acceleration, etc)
That's not the primary issue though. Regardless of forcing steam to use the dGPU or if using the iGPU, whenever I'm in game (fullscreen, windowed, doesn't matter), I get random "freezes". Or so I thought that they were freezes. I discovered that the majority of the time, I can alt-tab out and back into the game and it resumes. Only the video freezes, never audio. I thought it was the
Pause Game decky plugin, but I have since removed that.
It should be noted that I use an Xbox One controller. I have not yet confirmed to see if this issue is still present without the controller being on, but I believe it is.
How can I track this annoying bug down? I'm curious if it has something to do with a scheduler or some other app stealing the game focus?
More info posted to reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bazzite/comments/1f55v8v/strange_issue_with_games_losing_focus/52 replies