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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Wish I could play games on Linux, but for some fucking reason I can't figure out my gaming laptop with Nvidia 1660ti will not work properly with most games. If I ever can afford a new computer I'm probably going with AMD instead tbh.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

What's the output of nvidia-smi? If it's a newer laptop you might need to add a machine owner key so that secureboot will allow the required dynamic kernel modules to load. In debian the module will be signed with the dkms signing key, adding it as a MOK is fairly simple. https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#Making_DKMS_modules_signing_by_DKMS_signing_key_usable_with_the_secure_boot

*Try disabling secureboot first, if things start working re-enable it and follow the advice above.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Good advice? In a meme thread? It's more likely than you think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While it's great that your helping them ..

This answer is exactly WHY Linux isn't desktop/gamer ready yet. At least for the masses.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This answer makes me think back to when I started using Linux and I posted on IRC that my wifi wasn't working. Somebody then gave me source code and a makefile and walked me through recompiling the drivers and installing them and it worked.

Linux users online can be the most helpful people around.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Oh absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

what distro are you using? I never had any issues on my nvidia build with nobara

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Optimus? Because Optimus is an absolute bastard. It's improved and I've had some luck, but it's painful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If your game run terribly on Wayland, try running in on X11, and vice-versa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I know this is quite unprompted, but did you install correct video drivers? You gotta install proprietary nvidia drivers and its 32-bit libraries instead of nouveau