u/AlliedSalad

Odd request, I know. I'm trying to get my hands on a BMW i3 that has a battery degraded to the point that it has very, very short range. I have a line on a replacement battery for one, so if I can buy a car with a bad battery, I might be able to get myself a whole car out of it.

Anyone have such a car or know anyone that does?

I'm in northern Utah, but I'm willing to drive several hours if the rest of the car is in good shape. Of course, if anyone here knows of one in neighboring states, that's good too.

Looking to buy an i3 that either has sustained damage to its main battery or has little or no range left. I'll take any model year. I have a line on a battery unit I could put in it, so I might like to fix one up if such a car is available.

I'm in northern Utah. I'd be willing to drive to neighboring states or even further if the rest of the car is in good shape.

I'm on a Lenovo IdeaPad Y700 15ISK; it has a 1TB SSD, and Nvidia GTX 960M (4GB version), 12 GB RAM. I'm running MX 25 KDE.

This was an issue I had with some games before I switched from Windows, but since I switched to MX it's been happening with many more games, and after the latest update & upgrade, now it's every game. The solutions I've found via Google either don't work or don't work consistently.

For example, No Man's Sky was previously working using this command argument:

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia

...but after the latest Nvidia driver update, this argument no longer works, and it's back to running only on the iGPU.

I've tried the command "nvidia-run-mx" as a launch argument in Steam as well, but it has not worked.

I've tried installing and using Proton-GE instead of vanilla Proton, that has helped with some other performance issues but not this one.

nvidia-smi runs successfully and lists the Nvidia GPU as it should:

$ nvidia-smi
Mon May  4 16:18:41 2026        
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.142                Driver Version: 580.142        CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M        Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   38C    P0            N/A  /  200W |       0MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

...yet for some reason Steam games still aren't using it. I've spent hours Googling and troubleshooting this, I'm at my wit's end. Please help!