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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I am stumped. How can steam/the system exhibit different behaviour when we are executing similar commands. Maybe it is because I have an amd+amd laptop so it automatically dumps the graphically intensive application to the dGPU. Or maybe because in a desktop, the dGPU is connected directly to the display, it not switching to the dGPU automatically as the user had specified the use of the iGPU. In my laptop(which has no mux switch), the iGPU will draw the frame on the screen even if it the dGPU which determines what is to be drawn


  • Odd. I am guessing that use integrated graphics option from the Gnome DE forces the use of the iGPU for everything steam launches. Do you also require to use the DRI_PRIME=1 command if you launch steam through the terminal in which case it automatically switches to the iGPU for the steam client because I sure did not when I was launching steam from the terminal to circumnagivate the issue

    I used the workarounds mentioned in this post’s comments to resolve the issue https://lemmy.one/post/151466. With this workaround there no need to use the DRI_PRIME=1 modifier for the games(atleast in my experience)

    Edit : does somebody know to link the post in a way such that it opens within the app you are currently using(voyager for me) and does not open a new lemmy.one tab in the browser