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Chieftain
I am running Civilization 6 game via Steam launcher.
this is on Ubuntu 17.10:
when I boot Windows 7 on the same computer and start Civ6 (via Steam launcher in both cases), it shows proper video card in "GPU selection" field.
Ubuntu settings:
$ lshw -c video
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:132 memory:de000000-deffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
$ nvidia-smi
Sat Mar 17 11:28:15 2018
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.111 Driver Version: 384.111 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 1050 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 45% 29C P0 ERR! / 75W | 1920MiB / 1993MiB | 12% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1674 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 39MiB |
| 0 1736 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 49MiB |
| 0 1953 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 277MiB |
| 0 2109 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 146MiB |
| 0 2794 G /home/alexey/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 39MiB |
| 0 3050 G ...mmon/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/./Civ6 1258MiB |
| 0 3223 G ...-token=A7F6743DC05FC28EEAD7CC30A336F756 103MiB |
| 0 3513 G gnome-control-center 1MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 384.111 Tue Dec 19 23:51:45 PST 2017
GCC version: gcc version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3.2)
this is on Ubuntu 17.10:

when I boot Windows 7 on the same computer and start Civ6 (via Steam launcher in both cases), it shows proper video card in "GPU selection" field.
Ubuntu settings:
$ lshw -c video
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:132 memory:de000000-deffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
$ nvidia-smi
Sat Mar 17 11:28:15 2018
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.111 Driver Version: 384.111 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 1050 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 45% 29C P0 ERR! / 75W | 1920MiB / 1993MiB | 12% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1674 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 39MiB |
| 0 1736 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 49MiB |
| 0 1953 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 277MiB |
| 0 2109 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 146MiB |
| 0 2794 G /home/alexey/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 39MiB |
| 0 3050 G ...mmon/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/./Civ6 1258MiB |
| 0 3223 G ...-token=A7F6743DC05FC28EEAD7CC30A336F756 103MiB |
| 0 3513 G gnome-control-center 1MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 384.111 Tue Dec 19 23:51:45 PST 2017
GCC version: gcc version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3.2)