Intel ARC B580 GPU - black screen entering games
Hi everyone, I've built a new desktop PC and installed Bazzite, trying to slowly extricate myself from the Windows ecosystem. However, I threw a bit of a curveball and decided to try out the Intel ARC B580 with Bazzite.
I am a total Linux distro newbie, so I might describe my issue in a very clumsy way. Basically, the OS thinks I am running an AMD card. I can use the OS perfectly fine and it looks marvellous. I just can't seem to boot into any Steam games even with Proton Experimental or Hotfix enabled.
Is there anything I can do with Mesa drivers to get this up and running or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks so much for having a gander at my issue!
Operating System: Bazzite 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.12-203.bazzite.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 30.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B650I AX
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close the game, restart steam
some games also straight up dont work well with the card as the card needs newer bits from mesa that are not ready and newer bits from the xe driver that is coming with kernel 6.13 which releases soon
also you are running an amd gpu because the internal gpu of the cpu is an amd gpu
however the intel gpu should be the one that is being used by steam and games
for a list of known issues before i decided to wait for kernel 6.13 you can look in #Intel ARC (Battlemage) testing
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Hey HikariKnight, thanks for the help! You are right, I restarted and now the Info Centre panel shows me this:
Operating System: Bazzite 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.12-207.bazzite.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 30.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon Graphics [integrated]
Graphics Processor 2: Intel® Graphics [discrete]
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B650I AX
mesa drivers come with the image and we have the newest stable mesa
mesa-git is mostly intel breaks amd and amd breaks intel until the changes hit stable so it is not something we build or ship :clueless:
ah yes, I was just reading about how you deliver the mesa drivers, typical Windows brain from me there!
so is it the case that integrated graphics is being used instead of my discrete card, is there a way to force one or the other?
I like the erring on the side of usability then haha, that's the way
So I made progress, I can play some games now - totally see what you mean about some of the missing bits, I'm a happy camper now though - thanks for the help!
Looking forward to next kernel update, I can certainly play a couple of games
no idea when the mesa changes needed will arrive though
worst case 6+ months
so just crossing our fingers that the xe driver update will be enough to solve some bits
Ah this latest post I could find on b580. Hopefully the next kernel will include xe fixes for it. Bazzite is weird though for mortal kombat 1 in that I can only what seems to be steam deck settings knowing that I can reach very high settings on windows...
that is because the game is detecting that steam runs in
steamdeck mode
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Handheld_and_HTPC_edition/quirks/?h=#how-do-i-disable-certain-steam-deck-features-that-conflict-with-my-setupSteam Gaming Mode Quirks and Workarounds - Bazzite Documentation
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Awesome thanks for the tip, although I'm not sure how this will affect the measly fps that I am facing versus the smoother windows version. Do you have any experience with mk1?
thats more than likely a limitation of the xe driver or mesa with intel cards
if the game forces any raytracing iirc your performance will suffer with intel gpus on linux
I try to turn off any ray tracing so I'm going to lean on the xe driver case. Love the b580 and can't wait for bazzite to bring them up to speed.
if a game forces raytracing, then you cannot turn it off
By force do you mean defaulting with ray tracing settings on?
its upstream working on the driver/kernel module and mesa
no i mean it is forced as in you cannot turn it off, there is no option