I can use gamescope once every time I update and then it fails every subsequent launch.
I just want to game in HDR, smh
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Just upgraded my EndeavourOS (Arch btw) and saw Nvidia driver update. Reboot, KDE came up successfully, OK, good. Play game, stuttering right on the title screen. π
From my idiot troubleshooting with Nvidia in the past, I disable "Allow screen tearing in fullscreen windows." Test, runs perfectly now. The funny thing is that I had to enable that option in the past to make the same stuttering go away. π€·ββοΈ
Someone suggested maybe that option doesn't matter and I just had to start the game multiple times because of shader cache? IDK, but I do know that my next card will be AMD.
Modern Proton versions should compile shaders beforehand, I know what you describe from when it had to do it in realtime. If it happens again try clearing the Shader Cache in the Steam Settings or switch to a newer Proton version.
Thanks! Like I said I got it running but it's a bit of a mystery. If you are interested, here's where I gave up on Mint Debian for gaming because I couldn't fix the same problem on the same PC.
Hardware is known to be good. Greatly enjoying EndeavourOS and I wanted to get familiar with Wayland and some newer software anyway.
The good thing about an nvidia driver update is that it forces you to take a backup. And hey, I figured out how apt-file works just so I could figure out where the nvidia driver put nvidia-settings (as it forgot to put it somewhere $path could find it, and no .desktop files were made).
I am this close to proposing to swap GPUs with my friend whoβs coming this weekend for help building his PC. Heβs using 6900XT and Iβm using 3080 12GB. Technically itβll be a downgrade but Iβll be free of fucking Windows.
The best thing I ever did was configure prime offloading so basically everything but games runs on my integrated graphics.
Still borked my graphics a few times setting that up, but I'm on nixos so it wasn't a big deal.
But before:
I didn't have any luck with PRIME. On my work laptop, I want to use Intel graphics when using the laptop screen, and Nvidia only when plugged in to external monitors. Couldn't get it working properly at all - the external monitors only work properly when hybrid graphics is disabled in the BIOS.
Yeah, I've only ever heard bad luck when it comes to prime and laptops. Usually, like you mentioned, due to limitations imposed in the BIOS.
Can I ask why they're still the de facto? I run AMD on CPU and GPU and don't consider purchasing otherwise when researching components (other than baseline for comparison and per cent cost)
If you need to use pytorch, ie predictive modelling using neural networks, you need to use NVIDIA.
And rocm stuff is catching up but, atleast a few years ago, massive pita.
NVidia got there early with their CUDA API.
That's been around for decade(s), which enabled all sorts of crazy GPU usages beyond just graphics.
Due to that, NVidia held the datacenter/professional scene exclusively for a long time.
As a result, their professional cards and related drivers have been industry standard.
I have no doubt that AMD is better, but so much (non-mainstream) software is built against NVidia drivers, CUDA etc., that will be slow to change until the cost of implementing similar for AMD outweighs "just sticking with NVidia".
The classic "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"
Performance. AMD has explicitly stated that they arenβt even trying to compete at the top end.
I'm wanting to switch my gaming PC to mint from Windows. I'm new to Linux, that's why I'm going with mint. What GPU should I buy for my use? (RTX is not important to me. I just need it to play my games well)
Honestly they both suck in different ways, which also means that unless you're quite unlucky, they both mostly work fine.
I swapped my gaming PC from Windows to PopOS a few months ago and it's been a seamless experience with driver installation with an Nvidia GPU / AMD CPU
Installed and played Civ 7 perfectly yesterday.
I know mint is often said to be the friendly new distro.
I've heard good things about Bazzite. Like really good things.
I'm currently running Endeavour OS. As soon as I get a chance, I'm planning on checking out Bazzite.
If you are going in fresh, I think Bazzite is something to try for a week or so.
I can vouch for Bazzite and always will as long as they keep up the solid work. Running on a laptop (gnome variant for easier fingerprint login) and desktop (KDE, cuz I just prefer KDE day to day). It just worksβ’οΈ.
Thanks. I'll go check it out.
I have a RTX 3050 mobile with Intel cpu laptop. So far... Everything works fine on fedora and arch. I haven't installed Debian based on it however
If you already have one, just try that, see if it works.
You'll probably be fine with anything, NVidia's gotten to work well over the last year or two. If you want to be safe any AMD card should work well.
I'd just buy the best used AMD card in your budget.
I had a ton of trouble getting my R9 390 working on Linux, so ymmv
I think that card fell right in the gap when the switch from the older Radeon driver to amdgpu happened (or sth. across those lines, I sometimes see that exact architecture needing some love to run nicely). Didn't had any issues with anything from RX 550 upwards ever since amdgpu became the default.
Ah, that would make sense. Too bad I had to upgrade to Nvidia since I do 3D modeling.
What does 3D modeling have to do with that?
CUDA cores
RX 9070 when it comes out, Mint is good but there are so many good options. I suggest using cachyos and trying out all the DEs so you pick something you like. Although you don't have to stick with CachyOS if you don't want to.
What does DEs stand for? I'm very new to Linux.
A mistake people make very often is to conflate the distro with a "look" or "theme" to the UI, and it's not their fault.
Distros bundle a desktop environment which contains many applications used to navigate the computer graphically with things like "file managers" such as Windows explorer for example.
A DE can bundle lots of programs or very few and these programs differ in looks and functionality, not only that but these programs can be installed / uninstalled regardless of what distro you're using.
In short: distro doesn't affect DE but must distros bundle a DE based on things like philosophy, functionality or maybe just looks.
There are many DEs which is why I suggested installing CachyOS as part of the installation shows you options, you can try them out rewipe the drive, try out another one in less than 3 minutes. So it's the perfect sandbox environment to try new things. I guess you can use VMs as well, not sure how well cachyos works on VM.
As a personal note on DEs when I first used Linux about 5 years ago I used KDE plasma because I thought it was the most windows-like. But I had many issues with KDE, chances are if you use your search engine you'll see similar complaints about it which I likely share.
5 years in the future my favourite DE is basically using Sway and a file manager like Nautilus. Sway has Swaybar as a status bar and that's really all I need.
Not sure if Sway counts as a DE though, I think it's a window manager first and foremost.
Thank you. Looks like I have some homework to do. I'm getting excited, I've been reading a bunch about Linux and there are sooo many options. I'm barely started and already loving Linux.
My piece of advice if you have 2 drives, and this goes for any OS not just Linux.
- drive for your OS
- drive purely for storage. never store anything in the 1 drive except for user installed programs or updates.
that way you can wipe the first drive whenever you run into anything or you want to change anything without being worried about losing data
make sure your browser is using a password manager so stored passwords don't vanish
DE is short for desktop environment. Essentially it's the type of GUI you use. GNOME and KDE are the most popular, but there's many others.
GNOME is the most common, while KDE is more powerful, very customizable, and will feel more like Windows (for example, it has a taskbar similar to the Windows one).
I'd recommend looking at screenshots, then trying some live DVDs and seeing what you like best. A live DVD is a Linux system you can boot from a DVD and try out without installing it. IMO one of the best ways to try several desktop environments is by using Fedora, since they have a bunch of different desktop environments available (see https://fedoraproject.org/spins ).
For a brand new user, I'd recommend Linux Mint. It's a good distro for beginners.
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