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This is supposed to be Steam's Big Picture mode. Running it with GPU-accelerated rendering enabled causes the above glitched main menu, but running it with acceleration disabled makes Big Picture mode extremely laggy.

Who do I blame, Nvidia or Valve? Sigh.

Anyway, specs and stuffs...

  • Latest EndeavourOS, Arch Linux-based, kernel 6.8.7-arch1-2 (64-bit)
  • Using Wayland, w/ KDE Plasma 6.0.4 as desktop environment
  • OS freshly installed hours ago, so should be up-to-date
  • Intel Core i5-6500, iGPU enabled in BIOS/UEFI but not used
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPU, using proprietary driver 550.76

Blame aside, any ideas on how to get accelerated rendering working on the GTX 1050 with the proprietary driver? Or is there a way to try using the integrated GPU just for the Steam client itself β€” in case it is an Nvidia issue β€”, but still run games on the GTX 1050? I am aware of Nvidia Optimus, but don't know if that can be used on desktop systems, nor how to set it up.

Note that, while I'm not a complete Linux newbie, I don't daily drive it and have mostly just used for basic, GUI-less home server setups.


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Because, apparently, AMD GPUs are less problematic on Linux than Nvidia ones, I went and ordered a cheap, used Radeon RX 460 to use instead of the GTX 1050.

Could've used Windows instead, could've tried messing around with settings more, etc., etc., but this seemed like it'll probably be the least headache-inducing option...?

(famous last wordsβ„’?)


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I'm no Linux head by any means, so I definitely can't offer you any words of advice (lord knows, I can barely stumble my way through Steam Deck tutorials the few times I need to actually futz with stuff in the desktop mode), but you have my deepest sympathy. When I was doing that ITX Windows XP build a couple months ago, I ended up buying three separate GPUs before the system was finally stable. The first one that I got at a local thrift store was just unstable junk. The PC would run fine for like 20 minutes tops before inevitably hard freezing. The second GPU was supposed to be compatible with XP, but the only drivers I could find were unofficial ones that made the system blue screen pretty much instantaneously if it was in anything other than safe mode. The final GPU mercifully works like a champ, but is more recent than I'd prefer. (I think some version of the GTX 750.) I'm probably gonna replace it with an 8800 GT now that I know that there's enough space even within the small case, but... yeah. It was a real trial by fire to get up and running and that was in an OS I know like the back of my hand, ahaha.

Computers are true suffering sometimes. 😩

GPUs and their interfaces have become so comparatively complex over the years, too. Like, with AGP, you pretty much knew right away if your mainboard and card would be a good match, as both would advertise if they're AGP 2x, 4x or 8x-capable.

With PCIe now, which version does your board support? And your CPU? Which slot on the board handles the most lanes, because that's where you want the GPU? Does the GPU support the same PCIe version? And how many lanes can it use? Is a PCIe 4.0 x4 GPU a good fit for a PCIe 3.0 x16 setup? And so on... 😐

As for your build, an 8800 GT seems like it'd be an era-appropriate fit, yeah. A higher-end card of its generation, from the late XP/early Vista era. I had a lower-end 8500 GT with 256 MB RAM around 2010-ish I think, and it worked well for me under XP. Still have it too, but most of its caps have gone bad (all the same exact type too) and need replacing sometime.

Yeah, the PCIe crap always takes me more time to parse than I'd care to admit. I've been speccing out another desktop build to do video and screenshot captures in my living room and it's honestly not that complicated in terms of parts and whatnot, but double checking that sort of compatibility is always sheer agony for me, ahaha. I say this lovingly, but I don't know how the Digital Foundry types of the world stay sane fiddling with things as much as they do, ahaha.

And yeah, the big reason I wanna swap out the 750 eventually is I'm just paranoid about software compatibility since most of the Japanese Windows games I wanna play on it are either Windows 95/98 or earlier XP. So far, no games have really given it any trouble (or at least, not any unexpected trouble), but the documentation and modding scene for Japanese games of that era tends to pale in comparison to western games, so I figure the sooner I get something older, the sooner I'll probably be spared headaches down the line, ahaha. Otherwise really happy with how the build has turned out, it runs like a champ now, but yeah. πŸ˜