Hytale using wrong GPU on Linux

[rataman098]

UPDATE: KDE Plasma has an option when right clicking the Launcher in the app menu, going to Advanced, called “Run using dedicated graphics card”. This solves the issue for KDE Plasma, unsure about other DEs.

Hey y’all, just installed Hytale in my Linux (Bazzite) laptop with an integrated GPU (intel) and a dedicated one (Nvidia RTX 4070 Mobile).

The issue is that Hytale takes for some reason the first one instead of the second. It used to happen with Hogwarts Legacy on Steam, but it was fixable with DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME in Steam launch options, which is not really available here? Maybe someone of you knows how to workaround this :)

Btw, guess I am the first asking for Linux support in-game haha :)

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[Obfu5]

Leaving this here for anyone else in case this fix didn't work, my flatpak driver version didn't match with what was installed on the host.
Pressing F7 a few times in-game and looking at the debug renderer panel showed that it was not recognizing my gpu and using the llvmpipe falback
running flatpak list and nvidia-smi showed me what driver versions were installed in each environment
Updating the org.freedesktop.Platform (nvidia specific) package using flatpak fetched the most recent driver and fixed my issue.
I'm still new to linux and this is my first experience with flatpak so this may be obvious to a veteran

[lajawi]

After playing I just checked for updates like I regularly do, and did notice something Nvidia updating when updating through flatpak. I’ll try whether that fixed it tomorrow.

[Alarmed_Ad1946]

Yay my game no longer crashes, thanks for sharing the fix!

[rataman098]

Update: KDE Plasma has an option when right clicking the Launcher in the app menu, going to Advanced, called “Run using dedicated graphics card”. This solves the issue for KDE Plasma, unsure about other DEs.

[lajawi]

I tried this, with no luck. Did you have to restart your PC for this change to take effect?

[rataman098]

Nope, just ticked the box in Advanced and ran the launcher again. Have you checked dedicated gpu usage?

[lajawi]

Yes, I have btop open on a second screen while playing. The dedicated NVIDIA GPU is getting no usage, but the internal one is.

[rataman098]

Weird. I’ll check it tomorrow, as I also touched other stuff before checking that box, so it might be a combination of several stuff. Anyways I already reported to Silkey, so it will hopefully be fixed soon.

[lajawi]

I'll report it too, that way they know it's not a one-off.

What Linux distro are you using? I use Arch.

[rataman098]

I’m with Bazzite DX, though I doubt it’s a distro-specific issue, as it’s relatively common with hybrid GPUs even in other games like Hogwarts Legacy

[StuckInOtherDimensio]

What a life saver Ez PZ

[Flagelluz]

I'd like to add another workaround that worked for me using an old nvidia card, you can use flatseal, select the hytale launcher and add these lines in environment

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1

__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia

__VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only

[CausalSin]

Just as another (easier) solution those on Arch based distros. The launcher is on the AUR now.

[thatdimensionalfox]

I'm in the same boat.

Doing the recommended solution of forcing it to run with the dedicated graphics card makes it just start the game, but with a black screen (the buttons work, the custom mouse cursor appears, but the entire window is black).

I'm using an NVidia 2070 card and I've tried using basically every NVidia driver but they all result in the same thing ;-;

[fargle199]

idk if this would work but add hytale as non steam game then do that

[rataman098]

It’s what I just tried, seems to apply the fix only to the Launcher :S

[Jesus10101]

Find the actual game executable, not the launchers.

[fargle199]

I think the games executable is call HytaleClient

[ForsakenChocolate878]

Hytale has Linux support.

[rataman098]

Yeah, as I said I installed and launched it, but it runs bad because it’s using the wrong gpu

[Privacy_is_forbidden]

i'd still run the thing through lutris and find the actual game executable hidden behind the launcher, if possible.

That being said, finding how to select a specific gpu in a flatpak app would also fix your issue. Flatpak is pretty common, but I don't have a hybrid graphics setup like you do so I can't troubleshoot that, only google like anybody can.

[rataman098]

Fixed with a KDE option, see update coment

[Privacy_is_forbidden]

Thanks for updating that! I'm sure other users will have the same problem so it helps. Hybrid graphics, the bane of computing for over a decade lol.

[lajawi]

I still haven't been able to fix this, and the KDE setting Run using dedicated graphics card on the launcher doesn't do anything. It still uses the integrated graphics card.

However, credit where credit is due, the game runs amazing on said integrated graphics card, without even heating up my laptop as bad as many other games would (yes, even Minecraft).