Tetrio Desktop doesn't use nvidia drivers on NixOS

[quick fable]

I'm using KDE(X11) on NixOS and the desktop app does not use the GPU, but the browser version does. Any ideas what could cause this?
Not the highest priority, because I can use the browser version. Just curious

[green island]

you might have done this already

but

https://tetrio.github.io/faq/troubleshooting.html#dgpu

[quick fable]

im on a linux pc, don't have a integrated gpu

the desktop app uses google swiftshader so I think that means it's unable to find/use any gpu

[grand trench]

Nvidia graphics is a major source of headaches on Linux, for having a proprietary core, not using Mesa, and others.

I think TETR.IO Desktop Linux is hardcoding Mesa-specific files somewhere?

If you are on Linux 6.7 and above (check uname -r), a quick workaround is to uninstall the proprietary drivers. Nouveau is likely still not good enough, but is a lot more usable than before (with reclocking support for RTX 3090!) so probably worth a try.

oh wait, Linux 6.7 is not released yet and latest you can get is the not-considered-stable Linux 6.7-rc6

[turbid quarry]

for what it's worth i had nouveau installed for years and tetr.io still used my 1050 Ti
desktop is just an electron soup, so i don't think there's been any special attention to make mesa a requirement

[grand trench]

Just to note, Mesa drives Intel and AMD/ATI GPUs -- which for PCs meant everything other than Nvidia

Nouveau for Pascal (10 series) is still garbage though in Linux 6.7

so I think hardcoding Mesa is probable for a naive port

Also NixOS uses a very unconventional directory layout which could also contribute to the problem

[burnt dune]

this is a NixOS issue and it doesn't belong in #1020051077820862596

less dickish answer:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/electron-apps-dont-open-on-nvidia-desktops/32505/4
this should work

personally I always played tetrio in a browser so I never noticed it but I can check tetrio-desktop soon

send nvidia-smi output also

I'm running the same stack as you so I will reprod tomorrow on 23.11

[grand trench]

Blame Jensen Huang

[burnt dune]

@quick fable found the solution
Electron version of Tetrio doesnt recognize drivers that arent part of Filesystem Hierarchy Standard that NixOS breaks.
Solution is to run tetrio-desktop using some sort of FHS enviroment, i assume you already have Steam installed (programs.steam.enable = true;) and that package already comes with steam-run.
If you don't wish to have Steam installed there are instructions on the wiki of using steam-run without steam

marking as solved

also rename issue to Tetrio Desktop doesn't use nvidia drivers on NixOS as this is purely a NixOS issue and it would help with searchability

[quick fable]

Tetrio Desktop doesn't use nvidia drivers on NixOS

[quick fable]

that worked thanks i love you

[burnt dune]

you can edit the .desktop file to run steam-run for you

honestly patch worthy to nixpkgs but idunno

[quick fable]

sorry didn't know if its nixos only or linux or nvidia, my only distro is nixos

Do i click close post now or how does this work?

[burnt dune]

it will close in a week

[grand trench]

Electron version of Tetrio doesnt recognize drivers that arent part of Filesystem Hierarchy Standard that NixOS breaks.
makes me interested if Tetrio would recognize Mesa in NixOS

VM emulated graphics devices use Mesa so could spin up one to test

sorry for necro

[burnt dune]

idunno

but neueuvueueuueooooo drivers work

[grand trench]

cool that nouveau works

[quick fable]

Oh yeah i also opened a pull request for nixpkgs and someone said to just add libGL to the libPath and that fixed it 😄 No need for steam-run

[burnt dune]

oh

[quick fable]

I guess it was just missing :P

[burnt dune]

i guess noevueuve gets them while propriatary doesnt care