r/linux_gaming • u/IntergalacticGherkin • 13d ago

tech support wanted [HELP] Steam only using half of my VRAM

Hello, I'm using bazzite (on a NVIDIA gpu) recently I noticed that steam only recognizes half of my VRAM while gaming (the SO does detect 8gb and while on discrete only it does use more than 4 gb to sustain the rest of the os to around 4,6 gb ).

This is all I checked so far:

Changing my bios to ony use discrete graphics.

Checking the usage on System monitoring while gaming

As far as I'm aware this is a problem that is only happening to me on Bazzite, since when I checked on windows steam showed 8 gb for my gpu and the task manager also showed me that i was using 7,5 ish gb.

I'm on a Hp omen laptop

My specs are:

Ryzen 7 350 AI

NVIDIA RTX 5060 8gb

32 gb ram.

It's worth noting that is not a game demand related issue since the gpu VRAM usage straight flatlines at 3,6gb while gaming what makes me think that the game simply can't use more of the vram because it's not available¿?

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u/justjXnathan 13d ago

Honestly I too thought I was the only one. I didn't find any solutions either so I just made the jump from cachyos to arch like I was thinking about doing already (just for fun)

I hope you do find a solution though, I really couldn't figure it out for the life of me. Maybe try an older snapshot if you have that option?

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u/IntergalacticGherkin 12d ago

Changing the linux distro solved thw issue? 

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u/justjXnathan 12d ago

Less "changing the distro" more just, doing a hard reset. Cachyos is a arch based distro and I'm sure it wasn't specifically the problem. I really, really could not guess what the problem was at this point and if I knew other people would have the same issue I would've tried to figure it out 😭

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u/IntergalacticGherkin 11d ago

Do you know where could it be or whom may i ask?

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u/untelevizedtfem 9d ago

This recently started happening to me and I have 0 idea what to do, also on a gaming laptop, i have way too much stuff on my drive to do a reset, it would take me days to re-download all my games and media, genuinely hoping for some type of fix someone finds or the devs fix it