Nobara linux Davinci Resolve memory full

[nexu$]

Hi all

So after 25 years or Windows i decided to give linux a try, i installed nobara project, and its amazing, almost everything works from the box, except... except Davinci Resolve. I am constantly getting memory full on my ideapad gaming 3 with rtx 3050 and 16gb of RAM. I tried everything i know as a begginer, also switched pagefile priority to swapfile to use nvme instead of ram, but nothing. On windows everything was working like a charm. I need Davinci for Work, and i have one more day of holidays left to make it work.

Is there anyone who could help? Thank you in advance and sorry if my post is basic begginers.
P.S. I really like this one a lot

 

[dos2unix]

I'm no expert on this. But from what I've read, Fedora/Nobara is too new.

It's recommended you go with Rocky/Alma/RHEL 9.x (not 10.x)
Do you have the nvidia and cuda drivers installed?
A big swapfile will help, but it will be much slower.

Also switching DE's will help with memory (Gnome and KDE are hogs)

 

[f33dm3bits]

Do you have dual-gpu on your laptop, so an integrated and a discrete gpu?

 

[nexu$]

Yea i so have dual gpu. I chooses nobara because of gaming and video editing, because i make a lot od videos. Any other idea, what could i do?

 

[f33dm3bits]

Which Desktop Environment(DE) are you using KDE Plasma or Gnome?

 

[nexu$]

Which Desktop Environment(DE) are you using KDE Plasma or Gnome?

Think it is plasma

 

[f33dm3bits]

Think it is plasma

I was about to recommend something else but I forgot Nobora has official documenationt.

DaVinci Resolve

wiki.nobaraproject.org

Which tells you to look at this page.

Using dedicated GPU in iGPU + dGPU laptop or mobile device (NVIDIA)

wiki.nobaraproject.org

So I think you have to launch your games with environment variables in front of it, which would look like this from the terminal.

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia command

Replacing command, with the command to launch DaVinci Resolve. Davinci Resolve has a desktop file which you could just probably edit to launch like that. Can you first try it from the terminal to see if that works for you. Then I can talk you through editing a desktop file that launches Davinci Resolve

 

[nexu$]

I was about to recommend something else but I forgot Nobora has official documenationt.

DaVinci Resolve

wiki.nobaraproject.org

Which tells you to look at this page.

Using dedicated GPU in iGPU + dGPU laptop or mobile device (NVIDIA)

wiki.nobaraproject.org

So I think you have to launch your games with environment variables in front of it, which would look like this from the terminal.

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia command

Replacing command, with the command to launch DaVinci Resolve. Davinci Resolve has a desktop file which you could just probably edit to launch like that. Can you first try it from the terminal to see if that works for you. Then I can talk you through editing a desktop file that launches Davinci Resolve

Will try as soon as i am home,thx man

 

[f33dm3bits]

Also be aware of this note.

Please note that the free version of resolve does NOT support H264/H265 x264/x265 decoding. Only the paid version allows GPU decoding.

Are you using the free or the paid version of DaVinci Resolve?

 

[nexu$]

Oooooh, didnt know that

 

[nexu$]

May i ask is there some other solution that davinci resolve that have advanced video editing, transition effect etc? Because if free version does notchave gpu encoding i am doomed.

 

[f33dm3bits]

A popular opensource video-editor that is used a lot is Kdenlive.

Kdenlive - Free and Open Source Video Editor

Kdenlive is the acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.

kdenlive.org

It's available in the repos of Nobara.

 

[nexu$]

Tried it but didnt find any effects, will try it asa i am home. So by your opinion what distro would you reccomend me? Something with more winodow like interface but to have less of terminal

 

[f33dm3bits]

Tried it but didnt find any effects, will try it asa i am home. So by your opinion what distro would you reccomend me? Something with more winodow like interface but to have less of terminal

I'm not sure what your question is?

 

[nexu$]

I am determined to stay with linux, but if davinci cant utilise gpu with free version, then it is a dealbreaker for me. So i asked you do you have some other linux distro tocrecommend for me that is stable, user friendly but also to ve out of the box optimised for multimedia and gaming

 

[f33dm3bits]

Nobara is fine being able to use it without a terminal, you can just a graphical text editor and things like that. I'm just used to using the terminal and a lot of the time it's easier to ask someone to run something in a terminal to help someone.

Another distribution you could try is.

PikaOS Linux

PikaOS - Your new Linux distro for gaming and beyond!

wiki.pika-os.com

Tried it but didnt find any effects, will try it asa i am home

So do you mean you will try Kdenlive later?

 

[nexu$]

Yeah, i just need to be able to use some of transition affects, so will give it a try soon

 

[f33dm3bits]

I've heard from many people that DaVinci Resolve is worth the money for what you get back from it compared to something like Adobe Creative Suite.

 

[nexu$]

It is definitely, will buy it soon