Hi all, big fan of Bazzite and have it installed on several of my devices.
I just picked up a new (to me) laptop. This laptop has an 8845HS APU w/ 780M iGPU and also a NVDA 3050 6GB dGPU.
Using this laptop in desktop mode works perfectly fine. However, I reallllly want to use gaming mode, which, upon initial installation works just fine, but after reboot it opens to a black screen.
Now the Bazzite website says:
Some devices with two AMD GPUs (iGPU and dGPU) cause gamescope to be unable to detect your display resulting in a black screen. If you are affected, use an image without Steam Gaming Mode or disable your iGPU.
Obviously neither of those suggestions are ideal…
I assume this also applies to AMD iGPU + NVDA dGPU.
However the issue they link to in the above message pertains to several Framework 16 users. And if you select the Framework version of Bazzite, you get this message:
Enjoy enhanced dGPU support on the Framework 16…Applications like Steam and Lutris are automatically configured to run on your dGPU for optimal performance…Be sure to select Steam Gaming Mode for the ultimate console-like gaming experience
Implying that there’s no problem with hybrid GPUs? So is there a fix somewhere they’re not pushing to other versions? Or is this a hardware issue I’ll never be able to overcome? Should I try and install the Framework version?
I posted this on the Bazzite Discourse forum but honestly it seems dead as hell over there.
Currently I’m using Nobara and using NVDA on desktop and AMD in Game Mode but that’s obviously not ideal and Nobara doesn’t ship with Game Mode + GNOME and honestly I really don’t like KDE. 😬
don’t use the discourse forum, most support is done on the very active Discord forum, where they have threaded rooms for people to open support tickets in.
also, Gaming Mode is very iffy on NVIDIA. the hybrid GPU situation doesn’t make it easier. if you don’t want to disable your iGPU, then picking an image without Game Mode is your best option. Even if you do disable the iGPU, you can expect further problems with it in the future if you are on NVIDIA. as of right now, Game Mode was built with the Steam Deck hardware in mind, and Valve has not yet perfected support for other hardware.
I am not using Discord.
It works fine for me.
No, the best option is to find and fix the problem. I loaded up Nobara and it worked just fine, so clearly it’s an issue specific to Bazzite.
ok.