alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 16 hours agoThe GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balancewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square57linkfedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down15
arrow-up1121arrow-down1external-linkThe GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balancewww.pcgamer.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square57linkfedilink
minus-squarekugmo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·12 hours agoLife support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-28 hours agoHow so? Nvidia dropped support, so as it stands you are at the mercy of the distro maintainers to keep the old drivers in the repos.
minus-squarekugmo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours ago3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).
minus-squareyeehaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agowhile fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I’m aware.
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours agoAs far as I could tell Neuveu drivers do not support older cards at all. It does load into the environment, but crashes as soon as there’s any rendering trying to happen.
Life support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.
How so? Nvidia dropped support, so as it stands you are at the mercy of the distro maintainers to keep the old drivers in the repos.
3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).
while fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I’m aware.
As far as I could tell Neuveu drivers do not support older cards at all. It does load into the environment, but crashes as soon as there’s any rendering trying to happen.