On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:02 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 16:18 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 2/21/20 2:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > That's a good point which I hadn't thought of. I actually only have a > > > single monitor connected via an HMDI switch to both video outputs. I've > > > been so used to this I forgot to mention it, but clearly I have to > > > figure out how to run my desktop off the Nvidia card (I don't mind > > > losing the IGP so multimonitor isn't important). Do you know if it's > > > possible to blacklist the IGP? That might be the simplest solution. > > > > You could try blacklisting the Intel one. You would need to check which > > module it is, but probably "i915". Or check in your BIOS, you might be > > able to set the other card as primary. > > Blacklisting the i915 didn't work, so I changed the BIOS settings and > that did it. > > Unfortunately, although some games work well (e.g. Witcher 3), others > don't (Assassin's Creed Odyssey - lots of stuttering), so I'll probably > back off from this for the moment, though a more high-end GPU might > have better results (mine's a lowly GTX-1050). It's interesting that > the GPU passthrough with QEMU/KVM works so well in comparison, given > that it's a whole virtual machine. > I don't thing the 1050 should be THAT bad... I did just watch a youtube video on gaming on linux and it specifically talked about some games need to compile shaders on first run. You could try leaving the game running for 10-30 minutes and see if it improves. Thanks, Richard
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