I purchased a system76 Thelio Mira Elite With a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT. I kinda regret not going with Nvidia at this point but it is what it is. I primarily use it as a developer workstation, but want to play games on it as well so I can be rid of my windows box.

I didn’t expect it to be able to play the latest and greatest games but I did expect it to be able to play older titles reasonably well. Games launch from steam and seem to work, but I’m getting between 0 and 10 fps on the title screen of Kerbal Space Program. Other games are similarly functional but poorly performing.

Where do I start? How can I ensure my GPU is being leveraged? Is this as good as it gets?

  • zamithal@programming.devOP
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    6 days ago

    uname -r

    6.9.3-76060903-generic
    

    I think this is the mesa version?

    OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.1.0-devel
    

    cat /etc/os-release

    NAME="Pop!_OS"
    VERSION="22.04 LTS"
    ID=pop
    ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
    PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS"
    VERSION_ID="22.04"
    HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com/"
    SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com/"
    BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"
    PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"
    VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
    UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
    LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os
    
    • tal@lemmy.today
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      6 days ago

      Those are the kernel and Mesa versions, and at least assuming that the thing I linked above is correct as to minimum versions, you should be okay as to versions of those.

      And if this is the out-of-box preinstalled OS from System76, I’d think that it’d be set up out of box for hardware acceleration. Hmm.