How can you play Steam games with nvidia-optimus laptop?
Check these links - You need to change game properties as shown below
- Right click on TF2 in your library
- Click Properties
- Click Set Launch Options
- If you only have optirun, enter:
optirun %command%
The above did not work for me and I had to set the launch options as
LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 optirun %command%
Check these discussions:
- http://steamcommunity.com/groups/LinuxOptimus/discussions/0/846944052733804503/
- http://steamcommunity.com/groups/LinuxOptimus/discussions/1/864951657810665792/
If this does not work download the hl2-optirun.sh to below location and run it.
/home/user/Steam/SteamApps/'account_name'/Team Fortress 2/
Valve recommends using primusrun for running Steam games on the NVIDIA GPU.
See the following guide for help on doing so:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6316-GJKC-7437