Hello @TheSHEEEP, Steam is accurately telling you that the 32 bit render path is using mesa's faster software renderer and not using your video card for OpenGL. Your system is missing NVIDIA's 32 bit userspace libraries. Please install the lib32-nvidia-utils system package.
That makes sense and indeed fixed the reporting issue as well as the game issues (so they were related, I just didn't realize that the games that didn't work must've all been 32bit).
I wonder what removed the package, since it used to report it correctly. Probably got removed accidentally at some point during driver updates.
Either way, since this had such noticeable effects, I think it would be good if Steam could detect if that package is installed or not, though I don't know if that is possible.
Nothing extracted yet.
Your system information
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The "System Information" Steam gives about my PC shows an incorrect GPU. All other information shown in it is correct.
system_information.txt
The report is attached, but here's the relevant part:
That's rather odd, given that I have a GTX 1070 and recent drivers (495) are installed, here's e.g. part of the
glxgears -infooutput:This is not a laptop or desktop with an integrated GPU, either, which could cause confusion.
The GTX 1070 is the only available GPU.
Some Proton games (e.g. Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning) also show an error that the GPU would not support DirectX10 or a similar issue - while most games work just fine through Proton (e.g. Age Of Empires 4).
I'm not sure if those issues are related, however.