CPU Usage and ATI Driver (SOLVED)

[elixir]

Hello my fellow BBQ'ers. I recently found a solution to an issue I have been facing the past week. After an update, for some reason whenever I would run a game (through steam), my CPU usage would jump all the way to 90% out of no where. (This odd because I have a pretty solid machine that can run all games full gfx at like 45% max). It got so bad that steam would no longer even run my games.

I have a radeon gfx card and I am using the ATI drivers. Turns out what caused this is bugs in lib32 files and the mesa-libgl files when it updated itself. After some testing, I figured out since steam is made for Ubuntu, I should remove these files to the default Ubuntu path, so steam doesn't think it is using Ubuntu. All you have to do it run this in terminal:

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rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6

And voilà, your system is solved.

**I understand there are probably many other fixes but this worked best for me. Thank you for taking the time in reading :)

[wuxmedia]

Thanks for sharing Elixir!

PS <pedantic> it's written "voilà" , not wallah ;)
french for 'there you go' 8)</pedantic>

[elixir]

Thank you for the correction wux. You learn something new everyday :)

I did the liberty of changing that for you and I also changed some wording around since I wrote that last night when I was really tired and did not make any sense of some parts!

[wuxmedia]

oh the rest of the post made sense, dude. 8)
I just had to run "wallah" through the brain, although a bit pedantic of me to correct you.

I may one day have to use this guide - I thank you again for that, you're a good lad 8)

[rust collector]

good job figuring that out!

[rhowaldt]

nice one elixir! et voila!