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Bazzite Deck 44 Launches Today Don’t worry desktop users, there’s major improvements in here for you too! Hello folks! It’s been a hard few months with over 700 commits just to the Bazzite repo. I’m beyond proud to be able to announce that we’ve finished our biggest update in the project’s history and are landing Bazzite 44 for deck images today! This marks the end of our one-time image decoupling. From now on updates will be simultaneous across all images. We’re already thinking about Bazzit...
I’m not super tech literate, is the VRAM section of this article referring to the VRAM patches valve was/is adding to steamOS to help optimize VRAM usage for lower end cards?
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Mesa 26.2.1 & VRAM overcommit / cgroups
The kernel carries the full VRAM overcommit series along with the
dmem cgroup work. The benefits of this include buffer eviction priorities, ordered bulk moves, VRAM claim throttling, protection limits, and a fast path so the compositor stops evicting your game’s textures.
Bazzite wires the userspace half up out of the box so there’s nothing you need to do as an end user to enjoy these features:
dmemcg-booster runs system-wide on every image
KDE images get plasma-foreground-booster-dmemcg
GNOME images swap uresourced for uresourced-dmemcg
I’m not super tech literate, is the VRAM section of this article referring to the VRAM patches valve was/is adding to steamOS to help optimize VRAM usage for lower end cards?
Pasted for convenience: