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NorthStorm has Steam for Linux

10 Jan, 2017 @ 9:01pm

Steam game won't use video card on Linux Mint.

I installed Linux Mint today and so far it's going well except for steam games. Every game I try runs of the onboard graphics instead of the card. Outside of Steam my card works fine. It's used by Unigine Heaven and Minecraft like it should. For Steam games I can only run games at low quality and it looks like it's using my onboard which is bizarre. Even the Steam Information under the help tab sees it fine:
Video Card: Driver: X.Org Gallium 0.4 on AMD BONAIRE (R7 360) (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0) Driver Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0 OpenGL Version: 3.0

Any clue on how to make sure it uses the video card?

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Xongo

31 May, 2017 @ 8:08am

Isn't there a way to disable the onboard GPU through the BIOS? or UEFI?
If I rembember correctly, there was an indicator for Ubuntu which allow you to choose the GPU, that means, there must be some app (or a terminal command) to force the use of a GPU which should work on Mint.
If games outside Steam, and other apps do use the external GPU, then maybe there is a command to force only steam to use the GPU of your choosing.
Cheers

NorthStorm has Steam for Linux

31 May, 2017 @ 3:20pm

Originally posted by spacekiltro:
Isn't there a way to disable the onboard GPU through the BIOS? or UEFI?
If I rembember correctly, there was an indicator for Ubuntu which allow you to choose the GPU, that means, there must be some app (or a terminal command) to force the use of a GPU which should work on Mint.
If games outside Steam, and other apps do use the external GPU, then maybe there is a command to force only steam to use the GPU of your choosing.
Cheers

Hey, thanks for the replay even 5 months late lol. Anyway, I figured out the games I play are just poorly made for Linux, even more with AMD.