Why gpu acceleration suddenly stops working for flatpak apps?
2026-04-04 15:29 UTC
I have an nvidia gpu, and run some apps through flatpak. And there is weird problem of gpu acceleration suddenly just stops working in flatpak apps.
Normally when i for example run zoom, i can stream my screen no problem, blender gets full performace from gpu. But if run these programs some time later, zoom just shows black screen, and blender lags so much.
In between this time, i did not do anything to installed packages. I did not do a system update, i did not update flatpak packages. Everything should have been working as it worked earlier but it doesnt.
I found out that in between that time, new nvidia driver version is released on flathub, and updating nvidia driver package specifically, fixes gpu acceleration in flatpak apps. But now i have a question, why does already installed driver suddelnly stops working, until i update it?
Replies (2)
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@just_another_person@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 16:52
Have to see it live to be sure, but it sounds like potentially you're getting an update while the machine is running, and you haven't rebooted to load the new GPU module.
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@Yolotan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-04 23:18
Had that problem recently, apparently the (nvidia) gpu driver version of the system and the one within the flatpak need to be exactly the same. Ran a flatpak update and it worked again.