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?

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    6 days ago

    I didn’t expect it to be able to play the latest and greatest games

    I have a 6800xt and can play literally all of them. There’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to.

    I kinda regret not going with Nvidia at this point

    Nooooo that would be a mistake with Linux.

    I’m getting between 0 and 10 fps on the title screen of Kerbal Space Program

    KSP will run on a RPi. There’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to run the title screen. Something is very wrong.

    My advice would be to contact System76.

    Being that it’s a pre built and preconfigured there’s very little room for user error.

    Did you enable Steam Play in Steam settings, under compatibility?

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      3 days ago

      Yeah I’ve tried several Steam Play options. I get different behavior from crashing to some wonky rendering of the windows behind it, but none work

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          3 days ago

          What do you mean? There are the following:

          Proton experimental Steam Linux runtime 1.0 Legacy runtime 1.0 Proton hotfix Proton 9.0-4 …

          If you mean just the global checkbox, yes that’s on

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            3 days ago

            If you mean just the global checkbox

            Yes, the option that says “Steam Play”.

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      5 days ago

      I don’t think I have ever been GPU bound on KSP very well could be an issue with something else.