On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 22:20 +0000, Anthony F McInerney wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 22:16, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 2/21/20 9:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan 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). > > > > I'm not sure how you expect this to work. I assume you have another > > monitor connected to the nvidia card. But if you're running steam from > > your regular desktop, the games are going to use the current display > > which is your Intel one. If you can get your desktop to display across > > both video cards, then you could probably run steam on the display you > > want, but I don't know if that configuration is even supported by Xorg > > or Wayland. > > > > I wanted to add on top of this, it's more like the old multihead setup's. > That nothing supports anymore. > Along with the Wayland vs Xorg pain. > > Generally, when you plug in an external gpu, the igpu is disabled. That's > the simplest way around all this. Except that it isn't, because they are both connected (see my answer to Samuel). That's the problem. Maybe I should just disconnect the video cable from the 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
