Steam "prime-run" issue

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Hello I am a linux noob, I have an Asus R558UQ aptop with Nvidia 940mx and Manjaro KDE version installed. I use it for study and very casual gaming,
My issue is with “prime-run steam”, steam used to open just fine but after 2-3 days it began showing this error and the login prompt won’t simply show up :frowning:

These are the last few lines of the text I get in Konsole

“CApplicationManagerPopulateThread took 939 milliseconds to initialize (will have waited on CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1626824053)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1626824053)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1626824053)
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 152 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (X_GLXVendorPrivate)
Resource id in failed request: 0x780000b
Serial number of failed request: 0
Current serial number in output stream: 201
Can’t open bumblebee display.
Can’t open bumblebee display.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1626824053)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1626824053)”

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Do you have the lastest 470 NVIDIA drivers right? In that case you dont need prime-run anymore,try running steam normally without prime-run and run a game and see if it uses the NVIDIA card automatically.

In case is not working,right click on the game on steam and in the launch options type

prime-run %command%

Thats the correct way of doing prime-run with steam.

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Suspicious for a PRIME hybrid setup…

Give a proper system view, more info because something seems odd to me there. [HowTo] Provide System Information

Also follow what is said above. You don’t want to run Steam on Nvidia, but only the games.

Ho I didn’t know that, not that I don’t believe you but do you have some more info about that (just for my own knowledge)?

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The only official information is from the changelogs for 470,but it was not clear

  • Added support for PRIME Display Offload where both the display offload source and display offload sink are driven by the NVIDIA X Driver.

Then I tested and found out that in integrated mode (intel card only) I can invoke the nvidia card without any prime-run,this was also discussed recently in a thread.

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