Ubuntu 17.10 eve unable to find valid display adapter?

Hi Guys ,

I have a weird issue which effects me when attempting to run eve under my discreet nvidia GPU.
When running eve under my intel intergrated GPU eve runs correctly.
However Upon running when I have switched my active GPU to my nvidia 970m I get unable to find display adapter error.

if I query lspic I can see my Nvidia card:

Ragnarok:~$ lspci -v | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

a quick nvidia-smi shows the below:

user@Ragnarok:~$ nvidia-smi
Mon Nov 13 19:23:32 2017
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.90 Driver Version: 384.90 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 970M Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 42C P5 8W / N/A | 361MiB / 6078MiB | 3% Default |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1025 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 25MiB |
| 0 1308 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 48MiB |
| 0 1621 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 100MiB |
| 0 1809 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 144MiB |
| 0 2080 G share/jetbrains-toolbox/jetbrains-toolbox 11MiB |
| 0 2640 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2MiB |
| 0 2828 G /home/user/Games/evelauncher/./evelauncher 24MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

As you can see Eve is getting loaded into the GPUs Vram.

This issue only seems to effect eve as I can run any other game from steam on the GPU. and I can run eve on the intel HD graphics ( albeit poorly)

Has anyone encountered this before?

Right Figured it our posting here in-case anyone anyone else runs into issues, for some reason it seems to work if you enable DX9 in the eve launcher settings. I have a feeling I am going to be royally screwed when this is is removed but for now it seems to work.

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