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Steam Client Now Lets You Enable Hardware Acceleration on Linux (9to5linux.com)

submitted 1 year ago by shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fantastic news! thanks

beware NVIDIA tho:

However, Valve notes the fact that enabling hardware acceleration on NVIDIA GPUs may cause X11 to crash. As such, hardware acceleration will be disabled by default for NVIDIA systems. In addition, Valve says that DPI scaling may not work correctly when hardware acceleration is disabled.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know, but it's progress none the less. At this point, I'd be nearly insane to expect this to work with NVIDIA out the gate :/

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I agree, any progress is welcome and Valve is doing a fantastic job in making gaming on Linux viable.

I just put the alert in case someone doesn't fully read the article and go straight into enabling acceleration.

[–] V6277@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happened to Nvidia open sourcing their graphics driver last year? It seems like nothing came out of it. I know the userland is still closed, but wasn't there an effort to include the driver in Mesa?

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not too sure, but I wish there was more action from the code being open sourced. I remember reading a little while back some newer code was leaked for NVIDIA as well, but pretty much the similar issue as there hasn't been too much done with the info as far as I know.

[–] chocolatine@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have an NVIDIA card on X11 and just enabled it. I'll keep you informed ^^.

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes please :)

[–] chocolatine@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

6 days in, no crash yet.

[–] wurzelwerk@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Planning on replacing the nvidia card. Fwiw however, enabled it and hey, no crash thus far. Let's see. =)