Evening all. Just after some general advice. I have just installed Manjaro XFCE as I’m sick of windows.
The laptop I am using has nVidia Optimus with an nVidia Geforce GT 630M.
Before anyone points out the obvious. Yes, I know this is a POS.
In windows, I switched to only use the dedicated GPU.
When I installed Manjaro, I chose proprietary drivers. Everything is buttery smooth in xfce.
However, I seem to have taken a considerable downgrade in game performance. I’m not expecting miracles, just wondering what is the best option.
inxi -Fazy
System:
Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64
root=UUID=f8539747-10e2-4645-a538-4c2b4e6e0966 ro quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=f21702e3-9218-4a04-8a3a-7842237f4f86
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Medion product: Akoya P6635 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Medion model: Akoya P6635 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 500 date: 09/21/2012
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.9 Wh condition: 40.4/47.3 Wh (85%) volts: 12.4/10.8
model: A35 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Not charging
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3210M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21
L2 cache: 3 MiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19962
Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1200/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 2: 1209
3: 1197 4: 1197
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Pegatron
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0166
Device-2: NVIDIA GF108M [GeForce GT 620M/630M/635M/640M LE] driver: N/A
alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:0de9
Device-3: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-1.1:3
chip ID: 0c45:6457
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: intel display ID: :0.0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 143 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5")
diag: 389mm (15.3")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
v: 4.2 Mesa 20.3.3 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Pegatron
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20
Device-2: NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0bea
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
port: f040 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:0887
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Pegatron driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 04:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 11.14 GiB (2.4%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT500MX500SSD1
size: 465.76 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter> rev: 020
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 224.08 GiB size: 219.56 GiB (97.98%)
used: 10.45 GiB (4.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6
ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 512.1 MiB size: 511.1 MiB (99.80%)
used: 320 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 702.2 MiB (8.6%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 211 Uptime: 2h 04m wakeups: 1 Memory: 3.73 GiB
used: 2.52 GiB (67.7%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages:
pacman: 1111 lib: 362 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0
running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.2.02
In the Manjaro Settings Manager GUI under the Hardware Configuration. I have a tick next to “video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee”
And next to “video-nvidia-390xx” I have no tick.
Then under 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller, “video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee” is also ticked.
If I am wanting to force it to only use the dedicated GPU, should I install “video-nvidia-390xx” ?
Thanks a lot for any pointers!