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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nvidia doesn’t have stable drivers. Report for misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, they work FINE... When they compile! They sometimes do, but never without an overwhelming amount of warnings.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Someone posted this last week:

Caption: "I hope the NVidia driver doesn't crash".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone know if this fixes MSAA? I'm kinda sick of having to override my antialiasing in the Nvidia Xconfig app to force fxaa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

they will always end up breaking msaa yet again somehow anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Switched to Linux from Windows this year and Nvidia has taken the largest share of hardware troubleshooting. I'm open to ditching Nvidia for my next pc build.

Is there a GPU brand that is more Linux friendly or is this just a manufacturer wide problem given the amount of different Linux distros and smaller market?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

AMD drivers are open source and built into the kernel. You should have very little problems with team red on linux. From what I've seen the new Intel cards work pretty well too.

Nvidia is known for their problems on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's nvidia issue tbh, amd follows the Linux kernel rules and see people have fun with amd. I'm using a nvidia gpu on Linux and I hate nvidia for removing some featuers but they do this only on budget or weak mobile gpus on Linux. Like they removed the ability to set a custom temp for gpu but this applies only on weak or budget gpus, if you have a flagship gpu you get all the features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does this fix the pageflip issue which freezes one random monitor at any given time ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I solved this issue by selling my 5080 and getting a 9070xt no more black screens, or memory crashes, or random system lockup, or random game crashes.