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Big Shaq 8 Apr, 2015 @ 11:28pm
Steam client not using gpu to accelerate
I see the webhelper uses these arguments:

.steam/ubuntu12_32/steamwebhelper --type=renderer --disable-accelerated-video-decode --disable-delegated-renderer --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-threaded-compositing --enable-pinch --enable-software-compositing --no-sandbox --lang=en-US --lang=en_US.UTF-8 --product-version=Valve Steam Client --enable-pinch --disable-accelerated-compositing --channel=28119.0.1098456655


glxinfo:

glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes


This causes the client to use about 20% of my cpu while idle and up to 40% when I'm browsing the store.


Here's my system info:

Processor Information: Vendor: AuthenticAMD CPU Family: 0x10 CPU Model: 0xa CPU Stepping: 0x0 CPU Type: 0x0 Speed: 2800 Mhz 6 logical processors 6 physical processors HyperThreading: Unsupported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Unsupported SSE4a: Supported SSE41: Unsupported SSE42: Unsupported Network Information: Network Speed: Operating System Version: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (64 bit) Kernel Name: Linux Kernel Version: 3.16.0-30-generic X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Server Release: 11501000 X Window Manager: awesome Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_2015-01-06 Video Card: Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series Driver Version: 4.4.13084 Compatibility Profile Context 15.20.1013 OpenGL Version: 4.4 Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz VendorID: 0x1002 DeviceID: 0x6819 Number of Monitors: 1 Number of Logical Video Cards: 1 Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Primary Display Size: 18.74" x 10.51" (21.46" diag) 47.6cm x 26.7cm (54.5cm diag) Primary VRAM Not Detected Sound card: Audio device: Realtek ALC892 Memory: RAM: 7982 Mb Miscellaneous: UI Language: English LANG: en_US.UTF-8 Microphone: Not set Total Hard Disk Space Available: 829688 Mb Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 497247 Mb Installed software: Recent Failure Reports:


I'm using catalyst 14.9 on my HD 7850. Does anyone know how to fix this?





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Dusk of Oolacile 10 Apr, 2015 @ 7:51pm 
Have you seen any web browser work properly under linux while acceleration was on and it wasn't running on an nvidia card? Not even Firefox can do it. Then why would Steam, which is probably even worse than IE, when it comes to the browser part?...
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Big Shaq 23 Apr, 2015 @ 2:14am 
Originally posted by LOLCAT:
Have you seen any web browser work properly under linux while acceleration was on and it wasn't running on an nvidia card? Not even Firefox can do it. Then why would Steam, which is probably even worse than IE, when it comes to the browser part?...


true dat, i guess linux isn't ready for desktop yet then.
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Pietro Pacciani 6 Jul, 2015 @ 8:19am 
Originally posted by Dusk of Oolacile:
Have you seen any web browser work properly under linux while acceleration was on and it wasn't running on an nvidia card? Not even Firefox can do it. Then why would Steam, which is probably even worse than IE, when it comes to the browser part?...
Not our fault if you are a noob. Steam uses CEF (Chrome) and Chrome has no issues with open or closed driver on linux.
GPU composer is disabled in Windows too.
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