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Laptop + Intel HDMI + nVidia gives glxChooseVisual failed

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Description

IMPORTANT BUG : LAPTOP + HDMI + 2 GRAPHIC CARDS = GAMES NOT WORKING

This is a wine bug, but afects also proton, and is must to be fixed, steam is not lauching too with the glxChooseVisual failed.
Tested in:
Skyrim
Age fo Empires2
THE BUG:
if you use the intel internal card, with hdmi of the laptop, no problems, games works.
BUT if you enable the NVIDIA card, restart linux in my case ubuntu 18.04 and try to run any steam game, the games dont start.

In skyrim the error says:
glxChooseVisual failed
In age of empries:
a black screen.

With the intel card, they work perfect.

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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reproducing the failure with Ubuntu 18.04, an Intel GPU driving laptop HDMI, and the NVIDIA GPU enabled; done means identifying and resolving the glxChooseVisual failure or black screen for the reported Steam games.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, linux, ubuntu
Domain
computer-graphics, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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