On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 21:24 +0000, Anthony F McInerney wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 17:32, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough > > graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, but ties up > > machine resources even when idle, so I'm now experimenting with Valve's > > Linux version of Steam with the Proton additions to the Wine libraries. > > I've disabled the VM, installed the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers, > > modified grub appropriately and rebooted. The Nvidia modules are > > loaded. The nvidia-settings command shows the GPU. > > > > However when I run games under Steam, they are using the internal Intel > > GPU, making this configuration essentially unusable for AAA gaming > > (i.e. games will start but are unplayably slow). I can find no > > documentation on how to change this (whether via a global Steam option > > or even individually for each game). > > > > For the record, Linux Steam is a 32-bit executable, but I don't think > > this should affect anything (my machine is 64-bit). > > > > Has anyone done this successfully on Fedora? There are any number of > > Google hits on similar themes, but mainly focussed on Ubuntu, which is > > what Valve are mostly aiming at. > > > > poc > > > > I believe you will need the optimus / bumblebee stuff for this. > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/bumblebee/ > > Now, these docs seem dated, and for my laptop, I haven't had much success, > if there are better docs for this situation i'd like to see them. (I'll > quickly admit i haven't googled it for a while) I've seen Bumblebee mentioned on this list, but AFAIK this is only relevant to laptops (the above URL seems to confirm this). Mine is a desktop system with a discrete add-on GPU card as well as as Intel IGP . poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
