2y ago

Launching steam will sometimes lock up my Linux screen, but audio still works

So when i launch steam everything else up, fire Gnome music, it will all show a application failed, then it will freez my entire system but again audio is fine. this is annoying does anyone else have this same issue?

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Reminds me of an issue with Nvidia optimus. AFAIK it is a bug in the closed source Nvidia drivers 🤷‍♂️
I have a similar problem -- when I launch Steam, the whole system slows down to a crawl. But, it still recovers after a minute or so.
I have background shader processing enabled in Steam, so maybe that's what's causing this
- Back ground shaders? I think mine is turned off
  
  Then I don't know lol