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shadorya

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Registered: 2022-08-09

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Some applications doesn't use nvidia even if it is configured

So I'm trying to move my gaming setup to arch. I installed drivers and configured my system following PRIME . I tried both only nvidia card and optimus and optimus seems to work fine. Keep in mind that the issue below I will mention persist through optimus and using only nvidia card.

The problem is that games I launch from steam and lutris does not use my nvidia card except CS:GO. I check this using nvidia-smi or gpustat. Is it because CS:GO is used with opengl? Not sure how to resolve this issue.

Output of 

pacman -Qs nvidia

local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.10-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/libvdpau 1.5-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl-470xx 470.141.03-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia-470xx-dkms 470.141.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers - module sources
local/nvidia-470xx-settings 470.141.03-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-470xx-utils 470.141.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/nvidia-prime 1.0-4
    NVIDIA Prime Render Offload configuration and utilities
local/nvtop 2.0.2-1
    An htop like monitoring tool for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
local/opencl-nvidia-470xx 470.141.03-1
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17-2 (xorg-drivers)
    Open Source 3D acceleration driver for nVidia cards

Output of 

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"

OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Output of 

nvidia-smi

Wed Aug 10 00:44:08 2022
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.141.03   Driver Version: 470.141.03   CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   55C    P0    N/A /  N/A |    421MiB /  4042MiB |     10%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A     20934      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                     153MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     21062      G   /usr/bin/kwin_x11                  71MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     21087      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell               38MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     21609      G   ...ef_log.txt --shared-files       14MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     21628      G   /usr/lib/firefox/firefox          131MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     25832      G   /usr/bin/alacritty                  8MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I use 470 drivers since it performs better for me. This issue persist even if I installed the latest 515.xx drivers. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by shadorya (2022-08-10 09:59:24)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,943

Re: [SOLVED] Some applications doesn't use nvidia even if it is configured

https://archlinux.org/packages/multilib … dia-utils/

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shadorya

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Registered: 2022-08-09

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Some applications doesn't use nvidia even if it is configured

https://archlinux.org/packages/multilib … dia-utils/

Thanks a lot! This solve my issue.