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a04173c4

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Registered: 2024-08-26

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Set Intel GPU primary display for Plasma & Nvidia for gaming [SOLVED]

I feel like nvidia are being used for plasma and intel gpu is wasted. I don't know if my feels right or wrong but I want to make sure to get best gaming experience.

[arch@archlinux ~]$ nvidia-smi
Wed Aug 28 11:27:04 2024       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.107.02             Driver Version: 550.107.02     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 MX570           Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   50C    P0              7W /   30W |       8MiB /   2048MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       565      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                                   4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[arch@archlinux ~]$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x48 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 6 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting
Provider 1: id: 0x22c cap: 0x0 crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:NVIDIA-G0

Last edited by a04173c4 (2024-08-28 11:16:24)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Set Intel GPU primary display for Plasma & Nvidia for gaming [SOLVED]

That output confirms the nvidia gpu not being used for the general desktop, you'd see more processes than just xorg.

For games, if you use proton via steam that will automatically prefer the nvidia GPU, for other cases/native games make use of the prime-run command from the nvidia-prime package: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload

a04173c4

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Registered: 2024-08-26

Posts: 16

Re: Set Intel GPU primary display for Plasma & Nvidia for gaming [SOLVED]

That output confirms the nvidia gpu not being used for the general desktop, you'd see more processes than just xorg.

For games, if you use proton via steam that will automatically prefer the nvidia GPU, for other cases/native games make use of the prime-run command from the nvidia-prime package: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload

Thanks for your time.