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BPM - GPU hardware acceleration doesn't work in further BPM launches after initial launch (Nvidia)

steamclosed NVIDIA driversBig PictureDistro Family: ArchWeb Component
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#10858 · opened 2024-05-07 by hjpaul7 · updated 2025-03-08 · 5 comments · github
Hhjpaul7 2024-05-07 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 5/7/2024 beta
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
  • GPU: Nvidia 535
  • DE/WM: XMonad

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Launching Big Picture Mode GPU hardware acceleration works as expected, if I close BPM and relaunch BPM (doesn't matter when) then GPU hardware acceleration does not work and the UI is extremely laggy at around 2fps. It never recovers, even when closing and restarting steam.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Launch Big Picture Mode
  2. Close Big Picture Mode
  3. Relaunch Big Picture Mode
  4. No hardware acceleration
Uurbenlegend 2024-07-03 github

I have a slightly different behavior. If I freshly launch Steam, it can go into BPM with full acceleration and will usually stay like this with consecutive launches. However, if I leave non-BPM Steam running for a while, or if I launch a game from it and then quit, subsequent launches of BPM will not have hardware acceleration and behave really slowly.

I can usually get it to work again by relaunching Steam. In rare cases, it takes two launches.

Would be great if this was made more consistent. This bug makes using Steam on a couch a bit annoying.

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.9.7-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090/PCIe/SSE2 with the 555.58 drivers
Product Name: X570 Taichi

TTheAndroidx1 2024-11-16 github

Im also having the same problem as urbenlegend, except it seems to be more erratic, only occasionally having hardware acceleration after a full restart
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.8-arch1-2 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2

PPoltergeisen 2025-01-16 github

I'm having graphical issues when loading community as well. Also when I right click a name in my friends list it will show up weird
https://gist.github.com/Poltergeisen/113c46fd6a3069109ef2e2c57a9ed0c0

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Hhjpaul7 2025-01-23 github

@kisak-valve I don't see anything related to Big Picutre in the Steam Beta Notes but this issue appears to be fixed.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-03-08 github

Closing per the last comment.

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