this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
12 points (77.3% liked)

Linux Gaming

14926 readers
4 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
monolalia@lemmy.world
12
Using Proton 8+ with GTX 1xxx series GPUs (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago by muhyb@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

There is a problem with GTX 1xxx cards (1660Ti in my case) running Proton 8+ for quite some time due to Nvidia driver, they're unusable. Because of this even Experimental and GE branches are useless for me.

To be fair, Proton 7 is mostly enough. However, I cannot play one of my games after its update and it's working fine with Proton 8 according to other people.

So, is there a workaround for this or I should wait for Nvidia's Vulkan updates?

top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We'll need more information from you.

What is the problem? Which nvidia driver revision are you running? Which one of the games? What desktop environment, or window manager?

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you for the reply!

The problem is, when I try to run anything with Proton 8+, it immediately bottlenecks the GPU and everything kinda freezes because of it. Trying to change workspace and closing the game takes time, but at least it's not impossible.

By the way, Proton 8 was fine until driver version 535 (or 530, memories getting fuzzy).

It's independent from distro, DE or WM, and happens with every game. However, I'm on EndeavourOS, using bspwm, the game I currently try is 100% Orange Juice (it works fine, it just cannot connect to Steam after some update and apparently it works fine with Proton 8), and my driver revision is 550.67 but it's been like this for some time.

Also tried LMDE with Cinnamon so it's definitely Nvidia. Someone said NVK doesn't have problems like that but I don't want go that route yet because I can play almost everything with Proton 7.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have no issues with Proton 8 on Nvidia GTX 1050 Mobile. Please be more specific with your info

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the reply!

I just wrote the details here: https://programming.dev/comment/9284416

What is your driver version, you might be the first person I met who doesn't have problems. If your driver is older than 535, that's normal though.

I have 1660Ti and same things happens with 1060 on a different PC. Doesn't happen with 470 series driver for example.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Note that 1660 ti and 1060 are from an entirely different generation of product; one is Turing the other Pascal.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I know but I read somewhere that it could be related to Nvidia's Vulkan 1.3 implementation in their driver. It was fine when the version was 1.2. Generally cards without ray-tracing but somehow some of the older cards are fine apparently.