Hey, I am fairly new to linux and have recently bought a new monitor to do some more gaming with. Though I have been annoyed with wayland having the support for the monitor but x11 actually running games at 165 or higher fps. My specs are
- AMD ryzen 7 5700x (with hyper threading so we got 16 cores active)
- Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 12 gig
- Asrock b450m-hdv r4.0
- 16 gigs of ddr4 memory
- Samsung 980 pro (nvme)
- Lexar SSD (i dunno which one but my games are on the samsung drive)
- A 2 terrabyte harddrive with a name i have no clue
- KDE plasma 5.27.9
- Wayland
- Using Fedora 39 workstation
- the latest current nvidia drivers (535.129.03)
If you guys could help improve wayland performance or find solutions to make x11 work better with multi monitor support I will probably never think about windows again lol
How do you update to new feature branch on Mint/Ubuntu? I’ve been stuck on 525 for ages…
Mint/Ubuntu are inherently stuck on production branch, I think there is a way to manually install the drivers but I highly recommend you don’t. Best thing you can do is install a rolling distribution like Fedora or openSUSE. They always have the latest drivers.
Add the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Commands in terminal as follows:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppasudo apt updatesudo apt install nvidia-driver-545Keep in mind that the 545’s aren’t without issues.
You can roll back to the 535’s by entering:
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-535i tried getting the 545 drivers, however they werent in the dnf repos and the .run file from nvidias site wouldn’t work. I will try once they are out of beta though
As a tip: Never install using Nvidia’s .run script, always use your distro’s package manager.
Not meaning to have a dig, but downloading direct from Nvidia and using the .run script can result in important libraries being overwritten and totally hose your DE.
Just a handy pointer.
Where do I read more about this?
I can’t do 535, but I get it. 525 works fine, but it’s not perfect. just want to see if im missing out
Why can’t you run the 535’s?
Wrote a comment about it here: www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/182gypk/comment/kajq3ib/
Basically, 535 just doesn’t work on Linux Mint, as far as I can tell. 525 works absolutely fine for 99% of my use cases, including gaming (I’ve only had one major issue, but it’s just a general Linux problem). I have no clue why they don’t work, I haven’t found any answers. I would like to try and update, though…