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?
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
Launch the game and let it crash or whatever. There will be a steam-$APPID.log in your home directory.
Well, back at it again. Tried ProtonGE with the same results. But the vulkan logs are interesting!
cat ~/steam-220200.log | grep errerr: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILEDEDIT: more context
info: Presenter: Actual swapchain properties: info: Format: VK_FORMAT_B8G8R8A8_SRGB info: Color space: VK_COLOR_SPACE_SRGB_NONLINEAR_KHR info: Present mode: VK_PRESENT_MODE_IMMEDIATE_KHR (dynamic: no) info: Buffer size: 1920x1080 info: Image count: 4 err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILEDIt’s filled with this error. The entire log is massive I cant even upload it to pastebin. If you want me to search for something specific lmk or how I can supply the entire log.
EDIT2: also found:
99664.262:00d4:00d8:err:xrandr:xrandr14_get_adapters Failed to get adapters 99670.682:0180:0184:err:ole:com_get_class_object class {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} not registered 99670.683:00e8:033c:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"wine_rpcrt4_io" 99670.683:0180:0184:err:ole:create_server class {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} not registered 99670.684:0180:0184:fixme:ole:com_get_class_object CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported 99670.684:0180:0184:err:ole:com_get_class_object no class object {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} could be created for context 0x15