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QuetschKuh

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Registered: 2024-05-04

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Flatpaks not using Nvidia GPU

Hey there,
recently, I'm not sure why (I didn't update the system or anything), programs suddenly stopped using my Nvidia graphics card. A bunch of steam games stopped booting entirely and those that did were running at 5fps, doing all the calculations on the CPU with GPU usage at 2% and CPU at 99%. The problem appears for both OpenGL and Vulkan applications.
I already tried reinstalling the drivers, removing X11 configurations and running mkinitcpio -P.
I also have nvidia_drm.modeset=1 in the grub entry.

Here are the outputs of various commands:
flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam

INFO:root:https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki
INFO:root:Will set XDG dirs prefix to /home/Leo/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam
DEBUG:root:Checking input devices permissions
INFO:root:Overriding TZ to Europe/Berlin
steam.sh[2]: Running Steam on org.freedesktop.platform 23.08 64-bit
steam.sh[2]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[75]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
tid(109) burning pthread_key_t == 0 so we never use it
[2024-05-04 10:57:52] Startup - updater built Mar  6 2024 20:27:25
[2024-05-04 10:57:52] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/Leo/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-no-cef-sandbox'
minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
05/04 10:57:52 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1709846872)/tid(109)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
[2024-05-04 10:57:52] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/Leo/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2024-05-04 10:57:52] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2024-05-04 10:57:52] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2024-05-04 10:57:52] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2024-05-04 10:57:52] 3. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2024-05-04 10:57:52] Verifying installation...
[2024-05-04 10:57:52] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/Leo/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/logs

XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf562b8f0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf562a1c0
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
steamwebhelper.sh[190]: === Sa 4. Mai 10:57:53 CEST 2024 ===
steamwebhelper.sh[190]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap sniper steam runtime at /home/Leo/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 79 milliseconds to initialize
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 315
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau

pacman -Qs nvidia

local/cuda 12.4.1-3
    NVIDIA's GPU programming toolkit
local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.13-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/libvdpau 1.5-2
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 550.78-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia 550.78-1
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-settings 550.78-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 550.78-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 550.78-1
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA

nvidia-smi

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.78                 Driver Version: 550.78         CUDA Version: 12.4     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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 RTX 2070 ...    Off |   00000000:09:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   52C    P0             45W /  215W |     436MiB /   8192MiB |      1%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       666      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                                  42MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       833      G   /usr/bin/kwin_wayland                         125MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       914      G   /usr/bin/Xwayland                               3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       940      G   /usr/bin/kded6                                  2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       942      G   /usr/bin/ksmserver                              2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       968      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell                          134MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       999      G   /usr/lib/kactivitymanagerd                      2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1001      G   ...b/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1          2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1002      G   /usr/lib/org_kde_powerdevil                     2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1003      G   /usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal-kde                 2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1124      G   /usr/bin/flameshot                              2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1126      G   /usr/lib/kdeconnectd                            2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1150      G   /usr/bin/kaccess                                2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1151      G   /usr/lib/DiscoverNotifier                       2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2983      G   /usr/bin/konsole                                2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3078      G   /usr/bin/krunner                               13MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3134      G   /usr/lib/baloorunner                            2MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Thanks in advance and if you need anymore info please just ask me ^^

Last edited by QuetschKuh (2024-05-04 17:20:58)

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 2,444

Re: [SOLVED] Flatpaks not using Nvidia GPU

Assuming the statement you did not update your system or anything is true, maybe an automatic update of the steam client is to blame?

Also, can you put flatpaks out of the equation?

To confirm, please try to run an opengl app and a vulkan app from the archlinux official repos and check if the problem persists.

Last edited by kokoko3k (2024-05-04 10:46:20)

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QuetschKuh

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Registered: 2024-05-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Flatpaks not using Nvidia GPU

I suspect some sort of automatic update would be at fault, though I should have those turned off.
I tried running the natively installed 0ad and it does actually use the GPU through OpenGL just fine, so the problem seems to be a flatpak one.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Flatpaks not using Nvidia GPU

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

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Flatpaks not using Nvidia GPU

Did you update the nvidia driver in the flatpak? The nvidia driver in the flatpak needs to match the nvidia driver on the host.

QuetschKuh

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Registered: 2024-05-04

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Flatpaks not using Nvidia GPU

Did you update the nvidia driver in the flatpak? The nvidia driver in the flatpak needs to match the nvidia driver on the host.

That actually did it, thank you. Weirdly enough a whole system upgrade (including flatpak update) was the first thing I did when I ran into the issue, maybe the flatpak driver version was just lagging behind? No idea.
Anyway, this thread is now solved.