This is Pop_Os, which is System76's 'ubuntu like' distro that comes shipped with vendor maintained drivers. It comes preinstalled with steam and is intended to be able to use it right out of the box. I've opened a ticket with them to discuss it further
Now i'm starting to doubt since this these responses have been so ubiquitous, but it's definitely not plugged into the motherboard's gpu slot. The motherboard has a single hdmi and displayport port. It, like all the other motherboard ports have a matte-black finish that matches the case. The displays are plugged into the glossy silver PCIE aligned hdmi and display ports, which doesn't match the rest of the case. The card is doublewide, occupying 2 pcie slots and is labeled "ASROCK".
It's definitely plugged into the GPU. I've had plenty of opportunity to get acquainted with the back of my machine at this point. :,)
Yeah it appears my card isn't being used at all, which explains the poor performance. Honestly the fact the system runs as well as it does without it is impressive. I'm reaching out to system76 for their diagnostics on why this might be
Take a look in each game’s graphics settings. Not all of them show it, but some do. In Baldur’s Gate 3
KK will do.
I would expect System76 to be able to help with this more efficiently than we can, since they sold you the system for use with Linux.
I will certainly reach out to them, but it hadn't occurred to me until this post ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Do any of your underperforming games have a screen that shows which GPU they are using?
I haven't found any that do but I can try launching a few and searching.
Is your monitor plugged into the motherboard’s video port, or one of the graphics card’s ports?
GPU port, 100%
Since you bought from System76, I would guess that they have support staff who can help make sure these things are set up properly. Have you called them?
I had not thought of doing that for whatever reason, but I will in the daytime tomorrow.
Does an overlay appear in the top left of the screen if you put DXVK_HUD=devinfo %command% in an underperforming game’s Steam Launch Options?
For the 3 I've checked so far no, I don't see that.
Well for starters, my Wacom tablets drawing pen's eraser sometimes stops working until I restart my machine. How can I restart the service for this without restarting my machine? How can I identify what service that is? How can I debug the error to prevent it in the future?
This is a helpful tip, thanks
Way ahead of you but that only scratches the surface of Linux. I've got a docker compose stack with a bunch of services, DNS and reverse proxies... But that doesn't teach me about the internals on my workstation
Yeah looks like Sony is the way to go. Very happy about native Linux support
I cannot recommend Silver Bullet enough
This was the missing piece of the puzzle I needed to actually get organized and write things down. The graph based linking system allows me to link ideas together without any sort of hierarchy, which I adore.
I mostly use this to DM my groups Pathfinder campaign, but also use it for general note taking as well.
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My goal for this system was to eject windows from my life prior to the launch of Windows recall. That and host a bunch of docker containers in an environment more reliable than windows. I got impatient waiting for cosmic to reach full support, but still wanted to go with the distro system76 ships as "theirs" as opposed to putting Ubuntu on their hardware. I haven't checked if cosmic is officially out yet but will likely switch over when it is. I'm a novice with Linux btw. I can use it to host and run my software but wanted a prepackaged solution for my devbox so that I have a much lower chance of breaking it. Also things like my Wacom tablet just worked out of the box, which is all big plus.