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How can I tell if my GPU is being utilized properly? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 months ago by zamithal@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I purchased a system76 Thelio Mira Elite With a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT. I kinda regret not going with Nvidia at this point but it is what it is. I primarily use it as a developer workstation, but want to play games on it as well so I can be rid of my windows box.

I didn't expect it to be able to play the latest and greatest games but I did expect it to be able to play older titles reasonably well. Games launch from steam and seem to work, but I'm getting between 0 and 10 fps on the title screen of Kerbal Space Program. Other games are similarly functional but poorly performing.

Where do I start? How can I ensure my GPU is being leveraged? Is this as good as it gets?

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[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

No errors, that's good and also not useful :/

As an aside, this is likely not the problem, but a good tip in general, is to use protonup to install GE-Proton (https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom). It is a community fork which essentially Proton Experimental + community fixes. The System76 article I linked above has the instructions (TL;DR, install protonup (terminal) or protonup-qt (GUI) and they'll grab it for you and put it in the right directory, restart Steam and select the new version from the Compatibility menu either globally or per-game).

You essentially always want to be using the latest version of Proton unless something that was working breaks in a newer version.

So, next step, more logs:

You can enable proton logging by setting PROTON_LOG=1 as an environmental variable. You can do this per-game by right clicking a game -> Properties -> General and editing the launch options to say

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

Launch the game and let it crash or whatever. There will be a steam-$APPID.log in your home directory.

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