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QueenVakarian

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Registered: 2019-09-18

Posts: 19

[SOLVED] Steam reporting the wrong gpu card and driver

Noticed today on my new install that Steam is reporting my gpu card and driver incorrectly. It's showing as the following in the System Information report that can be pulled via the client:

Video Card:
    Driver:  Mesa/X.org llvmpipe (LLVM 13.0.1, 256 bits)
    Driver Version:  4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.0.3
    OpenGL Version: 4.5
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0x1e84
    Revision Not Detected
    Number of Monitors:  2
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 23.54" x 13.23" (26.97" diag)
                                            59.8cm x 33.6cm (68.5cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM Not Detected
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

However, my system seems to be using my card and driver just fine.

glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB
    Total available memory: 8192 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 7705 MB
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 510.68.02
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 510.68.02
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 510.68.02
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 [GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 3feb
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia

nvidia-smi
Wed May 11 06:29:11 2022
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 510.68.02    Driver Version: 510.68.02    CUDA Version: 11.6     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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  | 00000000:0A:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   47C    P8    20W / 215W |    270MiB /  8192MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       774      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                      71MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1262      G   ...ef_log.txt --shared-files      101MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      6106      G   /usr/lib/firefox/firefox           94MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Is there something I installed incorrectly for this to report like this solely for Steam?

Last edited by QueenVakarian (2022-05-11 11:38:54)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,300

Re: [SOLVED] Steam reporting the wrong gpu card and driver

lib32-nvidia-utils installed?

QueenVakarian

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Registered: 2019-09-18

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Steam reporting the wrong gpu card and driver

I'm actually braindead. I second guessed myself on needing that package and didn't install it. We are good to go now, thank you.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,300

Re: [SOLVED] Steam reporting the wrong gpu card and driver

It's necessary for 32bit software which includes steam itself and a large portion of the games you'll get from there.

QueenVakarian

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Registered: 2019-09-18

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Steam reporting the wrong gpu card and driver

Yup. I've made a mental and physical note to myself for the future. I completely forgot Steam is 32bit. Lesson learned for sure.