As of today, bazzite-deck-nvidia is now available as a beta thanks to improvements in the latest Nvidia drivers. While this is very clearly not a stable experience everyone should jump on, this should at least give our users something to play with and a tool to help report the remaining bugs to Nvidia.
Some important caveats:
Most bugs present here cannot be fixed by us, please do not report them to us if they’re already known issues. See our Discord and/or GitHub issue tracker.
This will not allow Nvidia eGPUs on handhelds. Due to issues caused by installing the Nvidia drivers this support most likely won’t come until NVK is ready to replace the proprietary driver.
Only nvidia-open will be supported by these images. That means no GTX 9xx or 10xx support.
If the UI is laggy, go into desktop mode and open steam settings in the desktop client and make sure Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views is enabled in the interface settings (enabling this can cause graphical glitches in the steam UI in desktop, Big Picture Mode and gamemode), then return to gamemode.
If I install it, will it include the normal GNOME, but with this Game Mode option, which if I don’t open it, its same as gnome-nvidia-open? Or is it entirely different from normal GNOME
Thanks for this, I actually downloaded this last week to try it out as I’ve been waiting for a SteamOS experience since I got my steam deck.
My experience didn’t last long, more my own fault I expect as I was in a hurry to get things working but I think I am really your key demographic.
I’ve used Linux back in the days of SUSE, BeOS, Mandrake etc but not played around with Linux in some time so I can tinker if required but I want my experience when doing in on my gaming PC to be seamless (I understand this is an Nvidia/Gamescope issue not yours)
The issues I had was
The choppy UI which I then found the fix for on reddit as I didnt know about this post.
When I tried to play a game it ran at 1 FPS, I was playing Hogwarts Legacy at the time and as this was unplayable I had to roll back to Windows, the issue seem to be it thought my machine had a AMD card and tried to run at 1080p.
My system is a MSI Trident X with a Nvidia 3090 connected to a 60Hz 4K TV.
I can understand why you have released this, and I think it is a good thing as hopefully it will force Nvidia or stream to fix the issues but I think you need a better way for users to report feedback to the right people, you mention " * Most bugs present here cannot be fixed by us, please do not report them to us if they’re already known issues. See our Discord and/or GitHub issue tracker." but how does joe blogs like myself know how to track/report issues to the the right people.
Any ways I look forward to the updates, I will try setup a dual boot so I can keep testing, as soon as this is stable with Nvidia I can remove my Window partition.
Try turning on “Enable GPU acceleration” in the Steam settings and let me know if that works. Steam Big Picture Mode without gamescope-session has the same issue under Nvidia drivers.
