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Linux gaming on an Nvidia graphics card (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by pleasemakesense@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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So I've been a little wary of installing Linux on my desktop since I have a 1660 ti as a graphics card and read that there are some problems with drivers and such. Are my fears unfounded/outdated? Anyone experienced any problems and what Linux distro should I look to use for gaming?

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[–] luana@tech.lgbt 2 points 1 year ago

@pleasemakesense > Are my fears unfounded/outdated?

They are mostly outdated. Nvidia works just as fine as amd does

[–] peeonyou@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

if you use the proprietary drivers you'll be fine, probably not even noticable

if you go with a Radeon card or try using open source drivers then go with god

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I have 3060 Ti and have had no trouble. I even used it with Arch and Gentoo, and all I needed was installing the drivers (the package manager did it) and it worked out of the box.

[–] Bulletdust@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Running KDE Neon here, my Nvidia experience has been faultless, adding the PPA and installing the drivers is reliable and straightforward. Wayland works acceptably, but running a single 4k 27" monitor X11 works perfectly, so at this point in time I see no reason to swap to Wayland - I'm sure in time I'll adopt Wayland, I'm simply not quite ready to drop my ability to create custom fan profiles using GWE just yet.

Nvidia X Server settings are nice, as is nvidia-smi.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's been about a year for me, but I did not have issues using the nvidia version of PopOS.

That said, I still ended up switching to AMD, because the driver is just in the kernel.

[–] linuxFan@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

I've been gaming on Nvidia cards since I switched over 3 years ago and only had a few issues.

On initial install, the opensource nvidia drivers wouldn't work - I had to go into the terminal and select the proprietary ones. That's pretty much it, really. Other than that, I've had about the same amount of issues with AMD(integrated graphics) and Nvidia.

On the plus side, Nvidia has a nice little control panel. It's basic, doesn't have all that GeForce Experience stuff, plus there are command line utilities like nvidia-smi(basic info) and nvtop(temp, clock, usage, memory stats). AMD doesn't have a control panel, that I'm aware of.

As far as distro, I'd say just chose the one you're most comfortable with. I don't think there are any huge differences between them concerning gaming performance.

[–] ryuko@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Fedora 37 workstation with the Nvidia proprietary drivers from RPM Fusion. Relatively painless install, with the option to sign the kernel module if you want to keep secure boot on. Only downside is the Nvidia drivers still don't work great with Wayland, so I normally login with Gnome on X for gaming.