There is a plasmoid that you can put in your panel. I forget the exact name for it, but search for Nvidia when adding a widget and you'll find a couple of them. One of them will say offload. You'll know which one when you see them. That one puts an Nvidia icon in the panel that lights up green when an app is using nvidia.
My goto laziest way to check gpu utilization is sytem monitoring center, shows both gpu at once so pretty neat and useful if something gets stuck on the nvidia card, also something cool is that if you have drm setting enabled on your kernel flags it will actually let you use VRR and other offloading stuff in wayland, also DXVK seems to automagically set everything to the nvidia card anyway so unless you go out of your way to disable it (like with any indie pixel art game) you don't really have to do much for proton and some native vulkan games that pick up the right card.
Interesting. On my Intel iGPU/Nvidia dGPU laptop running Fedora 37 I just installed the Nvidia driver from Rpmfusion and that was it. Steam, Lutris, and other games just get the card right somehow magically. No need for any environment variable things.
@@Egeexyz Mystery solved. Fedora uses switcherooctl to launch apps on the dgpu when the .desktop file contains "PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true" as a flag. Presumably once Steam or Lutris is launched in this method, all their child processes use the same GPU as well.
@Gerdoch how is the battery backup after installing nvidia drivers? My laptop have similar config but I haven't installed any proprietary drivers as I don't want to loose my battery backup on fedora 37
Hey egee!! Can you make a video on graphic drivers specially for laptops? Its been years since I got my laptop with inter uhd / nvidia geforce hybrid graphics but whenever I install proprietary drivers I face several issues. The biggest one is with battery draining like crazy and high temperature even if I dont use any program. Maybe I'm unable to configure properly but open source Intel / nvidia drivers and proprietary drivers and their combination its very confusing
Does this "environment variables" work under Wayland? I am planning to buy a gaming laptop, and I want to decide what will work best before installing anything on it.
So how would one use that variable to launch a game like Secondlife? Specifically in my case Alchemy? It continues to use the integrated despite the nvidia driver installed and being used by the kernal. Everything I read does it short hand and skips important steps for NEW users... and expects you to know "oh that goes there." Like running it with the console and putting that variable in.... how? This community is friendly but my god the tutorials are "instructions unclear, object stuck in ceiling fan" for the majority of it. Granted I've come from 20+ years of Winblows until it bricked itself on my laptop, refused to recognize a boot drive, and here I am on Debian... -.-
You are literally me now. Im trying to manage this for week now. Lot of threads on forums of my installed distribution, international and local... It is extremely hard to get one and proper information. This is crazy. Ok, it was hard to install driver. But you need to see how it works, test it and so on. So I downloaded and installed Unigine Heaven. Started benchmark and it was clear it used intel integrated GPU... Ok, I do not need games on my laptop, I want to use it for 3D design, photo editing... so I need to run this software with Nvidia Prime and even this video doesnt show how to do this. This tutorial is very good for users that will play Steam games, it is clear.
@@andreyansimov5442 I ended up going to Mint after more attempts to get it working on Ubuntu. Both Debian and Ubuntu had similar yet different issues... to the point I'd fix one problem and another would randomly appear. I quit trying after finally getting Elite Dangerous to launch... only for it to have zero video while other games were working. Like the part that kept nailing me was "mono x.x not installed" when it WAS installed and showed both in libs and everywhere else... but trying to launch a game? "File not found" repeatedly. Mint literally installed everything needed from Steam to Secondlife without issue. Not only has everything run on the FIRST TRY on Mint but Skyrim has crashed... ONCE in a few dozen hours now... compared to windows where crashing once per hour was common. Mint also had zero issue with the graphics driver, but defaulted to integrated intel. However that's an easy change and the Nvidia card works as expected. What is baffling to me is numerous posts saying "stop recommending mint for gamesssssszzzzzz." when it has worked flawlessly....
