After updating to Fedora 44, specific steam games are running at as low as 1/10th the FPS they were prior to the update: REPO: No Change Blue Prince: No Change TF2: No Change Cultic: 6 FPS, was 60FPS Guilty Gear Strive: 20 FPS, was 60FPS Minecraft (non-steam): No Change I’ve already run into …

Installed a new copy of Steam through rpmfusion instead of through flathub, now everything is running buttery smooth like it was before. EDIT: Clarifying in case it is useful to someone else. If you installed steam through the Software app, check the drop down menu under the Open button. If the onl…

[image] Phunsaker: I’ve already run into some issues getting my GTX 1060 3gb mini working on the most recent update, so I think this is a graphics driver issue and not a Steam issue. With that GPU, you will need to switch to the 580 drivers if you haven’t already: [image] …

I already followed that guide to fix a different issue.

Can you confirm you have the nvidia drivers load please. What does lsmod | grep nvidia show?

nvidia_drm 159744 101 nvidia_modeset 1937408 28 nvidia_drm nvidia_uvm 4100096 0 nvidia 111661056 771 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_drm,nvidia_modeset drm_ttm_helper 20480 2 nvidia_drm video 81920 2 asus_wmi,nvidia_modeset New symptom…

[image] Phunsaker: New symptom: I tried to play Turbo Overkill, it ran at 60fps but crashed within a minute of starting Start Steam from terminal. It’ll print all the logs in real time. May give you a hint as to why it crashed. I suspect that you ran out of VRAM, as 3 GB is pretty rough for …

I don’t think VRAM is the issue considering my games were working fine before I updated to Fedora 44. I’ve been monitoring the GPU and memory usage, it is currently locked at 0% for all games because Steam now refuses to use my graphics card. Minecraft still runs fine though.

What was your VRAM use before the upgrade with the game that runs for a bit and then crashes? What is it after the upgrade? Without measuring, you can’t rule it out. E.g. maybe you were close to the limit before, and now it just so happens that you’re over the limit due to a small increase in usage. …

Sorry, did not think to ask. It’s well know that the flathub steam has issues vs. rpmfusion steam version.

So I uninstalled the new drivers and re-installed the v580 drivers for the GTX 1070 TI and confirmed that I have the RPM version of Steam, but my game (Dead by Daylight) still performs terribly compared to Fedora 43. Do you have any other suggestions I can try out? Before, I just launched the game …

[image] Phunsaker: flathub Something to keep in mind in general is that with flatpaks you need the NVIDIA flatpak packages installed after you update the GPU driver. This is an extra step after you install the GPU driver and reboot. flatpak update takes care of that. [image] Nick Vegas: m…

Certain Steam games having low FPS on Fedora 44

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pg-tips (P G) July 4, 2026, 6:18pm 2

With that GPU, you will need to switch to the 580 drivers if you haven’t already:

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Certain Steam games having low FPS on Fedora 44

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