So what happened is:
- My laptop crashed while playing Megabonk (I guess it got too hot idk)
- It just fully froze so I forced it to turn off
- Then I boot up again, open Megabonk again
- It’s running at way lower fps than usual, it used to run on 60fps vsync without issue, and now it’s at 25 fps
- I checked other Steam games and they also run slower, as if it was using my iGPU instead of the good one.
I had to run Steam games using:
gamemoderun %command%
Since otherwise it wouldn’t detect my GPU.
But now that doesn’t even work.
Running Minecraft through Prism launcher and using the discrete GPU option in the settings does work properly.
So something must be broken, idk.
My laptop is a HP Omen 15-dc0005la, it uses a GTX 1050.
nvidia-smi:
Sat Feb 7 10:53:41 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.95.05 Driver Version: 580.95.05 CUDA Version: 13.0 |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 44C P8 N/A / 5001W | 12MiB / 4096MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 3741 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 51685 C+G ...am/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+