Closing and Reopening the Steam Window is Needed for Games to Launch Properly with Hybrid Graphics Laptops

[BugsyReportsy]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): 1733265492
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Pop_OS! 22.04, Linux Mint 22, EndeavourOS (Presumably happens with every distro.)
• Opted into Steam client beta?: [No]
• Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes]
• Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]
• GPU: Nvidia+Intel

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Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist

When launching games with a laptop that uses hybrid graphics or PRIME switchable graphics, they would often freeze a few seconds after launch unless I close and reopen the Steam window first. I originally thought the issue was specific to certain games in my library failing to launch properly, but I had just figured out it was entirely because of my laptop's hybrid/PRIME graphics setup. This seems to occur most consistently with games running with Proton, but this sometimes happens with native games as well.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Launch a game and then exit it after it launches.
2. Launch the same game again just afterwards.
3. Close and reopen the Steam window, then launch the same game again.
4. Repeat the steps above with a game running on Proton.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @BugsyReportsy, this issue should also be mentioned to your video driver vendor if it hasn't been already.

[BugsyReportsy]

Hello @BugsyReportsy, this issue should also be mentioned to your video driver vendor if it hasn't been already.

This bug has occurred since at least NVIDIA driver 545 and is still happening on driver 565. This happens with Ubuntu's, Arch's, and Pop's drivers, so I don't think this is vendor/packager specific.