Hello there everyone, after NVIDIA driver no longer supporting Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older, I changed to the nvidia-580xx-dkms driver as the aur suggested but I’ve been having a lot of graphical glitches in applications and a massive fps drop in games, has anyone encountered the same issues?
Yeah, I have an i5-8400 (Intel® UHD Graphics 630), is there any way that I can check which GPU steam is using while running games? I’ve checked and it seems the iGPU isn’t even set up so idk if that could be the issue: └[~]> lspci -k | grep -EA3 ‘VGA|3D|Display’ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 3281 Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
Edit: I decided to look through the steam logs while running it from flatpak and i found this:
pci id for fd 30: 10de:1c03, driver (null)
pci id for fd 31: 10de:1c03, driver (null)
kmsro: driver missing
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
01/27 23:06:41 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
01/27 23:06:41 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamsysinfo)/version(1769025840)/tid(116)
Running query: 1 - GpuTopology
Response: gpu_topology {
gpus {
id: 1
name: "llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.3, 256 bits)"
vram_size_bytes: 3221225472
driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_MesaLLVMPipe
driver_version_major: 25
driver_version_minor: 2
driver_version_patch: 4
luid: 0
}
default_gpu_id: 1
}
Exit code: 0
Saving response to: /tmp/steamdMECfE - 58 bytes
pci id for fd 32: 10de:1c03, driver (null)
pci id for fd 33: 10de:1c03, driver (null)
kmsro: driver missing
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
pci id for fd 32: 10de:1c03, driver (null)
pci id for fd 33: 10de:1c03, driver (null)
kmsro: driver missing
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
Do you have a Wayland compositor, like Hyprland?
I find that some games work better in Wayland, particularly Hyprland.
Also, you use gamescope when gaming?
Reference: [SOLVED] Steam Games Work on Wayland, But Not X11
I don’t really use wayland because (for some reason that I still don’t understand) it makes my cpu overheat really badly. The issue is that games did run fine in x11 before i had to switch to 580xx-dkms, either way thank you for replying and I will be trying out gamescope and wayland performance