Hi there, I recently installed Nvidia Driver 595.80, and have since been unable to utilize my GPU for any game. When in a game, Steam reports that I am using 0% GPU and 0/0 MB of VRAM. I also see in nvidia-smi the same thing, even for programs such as Firefox which use GPU acceleration, and typically have some GPU utilization, they are unable to use the GPU.
Rolling back to previous drivers solves the issue, but this is not ideal for a variety of reasons.
I have tried following the steps in this thread: Fedora 43 KDE - Discrete GPU (Nvidia) not being utilized when playing Steam Games without any success unfortunately. Specifically, I did sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-xorg-libs followed by sudo akmods --rebuild --force and then rebooted my system, which didn’t work.
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Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GB203 [GeForce RTX 5070 Ti] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 595.80 arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: DP-2,DP-3 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 05:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:2c05
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.23 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.12
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
d-rect: 5760x2160 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: right model: Dell S2725QS res: 3840x2160 hz: 120
dpi: 163 diag: 685mm (27")
Monitor-2: DP-3 pos: primary,left model: Lenovo LEN Y27fA res: 1920x1080
hz: 120 dpi: 82 diag: 683mm (26.9")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast
gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia x11:
drv: nvidia inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 595.80
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
driver: nvidia device-ID: 10de:2c05 device: 1 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
dnf list --installed \*nvidia\*
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-7.0.12-201.fc44.x86_64.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 @commandline
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch 20260519-1.fc44 updates
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.i686 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-xorg-libs.x86_64 3:595.80-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
lsmod | grep -iE "nvidia|nouveau"
nvidia_uvm 2699264 0
nvidia_drm 163840 80
nvidia_modeset 2183168 22 nvidia_drm
nvidia 16334848 561 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
drm_ttm_helper 20480 1 nvidia_drm
video 81920 1 nvidia_modeset
modinfo -l nvidia
Dual MIT/GPL
modinfo -F version nvidia
595.80
mokutil --sb-state
SecureBoot disabled
Platform is in Setup Mode
In the meantime I will downgrade my drivers, but I am not seeing a lot of reports of these drivers not working for people, is it just me or is it a widespread issue? I would also like to be on the latest drivers for performance reasons, as new games come out they often require new drivers. I appreciate any help or insights.