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How to gather system information

By pulchr

These instructions show how to gather system information about your computer. It is very important that you can provide the system information, when you're having trouble, so that we can investigate problems and find out what's going wrong.

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Languages: English

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10 Feb, 2015 @ 9:21am

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Using Steam to gather system information

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Using Steam to gather system information

You can use Steam to collect system information about your computer.

Go to the Steam Help menu.
Pick System Information in the dropdown menu.
Right-click and select Copy all text to clipboard

Now that you have the system information available it's matter of what you want to do with it. You can paste it into a mail, create a text link with Hastebin[hastebin.com] (or any other such service) or look for the specific information that we're requesting.

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KOTurpok 11 Dec, 2024 @ 11:23pm

I don't really understand how to add a Steam Deck profile. The instruction that I use adds my Steam Deck as a PC, and I would like to configure the profile exactly as a Steam Deck.

MrGasmask 23 Jul, 2024 @ 8:37am

isnt this game long dead

36+√(1)÷53+81+√(1882329.12) 2 Jul, 2024 @ 12:20pm

Ctrl + A to select everything

Major Gnuisance 25 May, 2024 @ 10:54am

Caveat for Linux users with hybrid graphics gathering info for ProtonDB: if Steam is using your iGPU, your system information will show your iGPU and not your dGPU.
The solution is to launch Steam with your dGPU, but currently that causes a crash due to this bug. [github.com]

As a workaround launch Steam from a terminal like this, so it can see your dGPU without crashing:

DRI_PRIME=1 steam -cef-disable-gpu

Then you can copy your system information and it will show your dGPU.

Without the -cef-disable-gpu option what happens is that Steam's browser engine (Chromium Embedded Framework) will try to use the dGPU and crash.

Another alternative is going into Steam settings and disabling "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views," which does the same as the -cef-disable-gpu option. Then you can launch Steam using your dGPU.

coldreactive 5 May, 2024 @ 8:55pm

There's no more "select all" or "copy all text to clipboard" you have to select all manually.

Fabiano 23 Apr, 2024 @ 7:38am

my RAM isn't being detected properly.
It says

RAM: %$s1 MB

LucMarGui 16 Mar, 2024 @ 2:09pm

My GPU and GPU Drivers as listed as MESA instead of the NVIDIA drivers:

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
KERNEL: 6.1.0-18-amd64
CPU: Intel Core i7-10870H @ 2.20GHz
GPU: Mesa/X.org llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6, 256 bits)
GPU DRIVER: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6
RAM: 32 GB

Should be:

Driver Version: 550.54.14
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

riquez 14 Jan, 2024 @ 2:23am

It shows my iGPU not dGPU. (both are AMD on Manjaro gnome) I tried launching Steam with DRI_PRIME=1 but its the same.

erlkonig 30 Oct, 2023 @ 1:19pm

Where is this available in big picture mode, which happens to be the only mode that works on my linux host?

GRomPES 8 Oct, 2023 @ 1:56pm

Просто клацнув по полю "меню" не появиться. Надо выбрать всё ctrl+A и тогда уже появится меню по ПКМ

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