In the latest Steam Beta Client for desktop, Valve has made an attempt to improve the experience for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux. Since the New Big Picture Mode landed, it has been pretty rough for NVIDIA users and that's being kind. It's sluggish as heck but now perhaps for some a bit better.
For Linux from the latest Beta:
- Fixed mouse input not working in the Store/Community pages on process startup.
- Fixed mouse input not working in the top area of the window when dpi scaling was enabled.
- Fixed hidpi scaling not working on Nvidia GPUs.
- Fixed HW acceleration not being enabled on Nvidia GPUs.
- Fixed Big Picture mode performance when using Nvidia GPUs. Known issue: some visual artifacts may appear. Use -disable-desktop-gl-fallback to restore previous behaviour if desired.
For me, I saw no improvements at all, it's still sluggish and the first attempt to load it just completely and instantly logged me out of KDE Plasma - ouch. Let me know how you get on in the comments!
The other changes:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.General
- Fixed issue with a black Library pane when starting Steam with -silent (used when Steam starts with your computer) and then clicking on a Steam shortcut to bring up the main window.
- Fixed links in EULA not being clickable
- Fixed options in context menus and dropdowns being inaccessible if they overlapped the bottom bar.
- Fixed screenshots for mods or some non-Steam games becoming inaccessible in screenshots manager.
Steam Input
- Reduced rumble request frequency - the requests over bluetooth may have been causing latency in some gyro over bluetooth setups.
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fenglengshun May 19, 2023
QuoteUse -disable-desktop-gl-fallback to restore previous behaviour if desired.
Am I the only one who's kinda bugged by Valve using single hyphen (-) as opposed to double (--) per the standard for arguments that aren't single letter? It's not a big deal, but it just bugs me.
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hardpenguin May 19, 2023
To get rid of the glitches you can run Big Picture Mode in a window.
Not a solution for most but works for me and my Steam Link (because when streaming, windowed BPM is scaled to fullscreen anyway).
Not a solution for most but works for me and my Steam Link (because when streaming, windowed BPM is scaled to fullscreen anyway).
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Seriously... Isn't big picture mode something a GTX 950 should do single-handed, hardware accelerated or not?!? I guess I'm missing something here, but I don't know what.
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Quoting: hardpenguinTo get rid of the glitches you can run Big Picture Mode in a window.So, Small Picture Mode.
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slaapliedje May 22, 2023
Quoting: GuestCurious what Desktop environment everyone is using. I know it was mentioned that KDE crashed. I run Gnome and it seems fine (though at 4k, it runs like the Atari VCS at 4k... actually it may be smoother...)QuoteFixed Big Picture mode performance when using Nvidia GPUDid they really claim that? I still get maybe 3 fps in big picture mode (at 4k resolution) on my gtx 1080. It's silly because there are some games I can play on ultra at 4k resolution and 60 fps.
The old big picture mode ran at 60 fps without any issues, because it didn't use shitty web tech.
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