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Xuild 30 Aug @ 2:26am
friend installed linux and is now lagging heaps
so, windows broke, somehow despite him not knowing much about computers he managed to install linux (since win 11 doesnt work on his pc and hes already went through the effort to get linux) and now it lags on literally everything, told him to enable XMP, runs a tiny bit smoother but everything runs at about 20-40 fps

i'm completely stumped on what to do, hes got an i7 8700k and my old gtx 1660 super with a water cooler, 16gb of memory running at 2400 mhz
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Originally posted by ˢᵈˣ FatCat:
without drivers, all will be lag, up your drivers bruh
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ˢᵈˣ FatCat 30 Aug @ 2:29am 
without drivers, all will be lag, up your drivers bruh
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Xuild 30 Aug @ 2:30am 
Originally posted by ˢᵈˣ FatCat:
without drivers, all will be lag, up your drivers bruh
lol, the one thing i forgot about, thanks
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Omega 30 Aug @ 3:18am 
Most hardware will just work out of the box under Linux, the Nvidia drivers are the primary exception.

Install the drivers from your distro repositories/app store, do NOT install them from the Nvidia website.
Last edited by Omega; 30 Aug @ 3:18am
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D. Flame 30 Aug @ 9:26am 
Try Proton-Sarek?
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C1REX 30 Aug @ 9:40am 
Originally posted by Xuild:

i'm completely stumped on what to do, hes got an i7 8700k and my old gtx 1660 super with a water cooler, 16gb of memory running at 2400 mhz

He can try to install official nvidia drivers.
Or get gaming focused Bazzite Linux with nvidia drivers pre-installed.

Or get some guides online on how to install and keep using W10. I'm still on W10 on one of my PCs.
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DonMcK 30 Aug @ 9:53am 
Of all the Linux distro's he could have picked, which did he actually choose?

I have an i7-8700K and both Linux Mint and Win 11 installed, the latter needs EUFI and Secure Boot functionality to be enabled. Neither have any issues.
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Bad 💀 Motha 1 Sep @ 9:34pm 
Win11 works perfectly fine even on my old 4790K
The real issue could be, which Linux distro you are using.
But let's face it; ALL GTX cards are junk at this point as well.
You have to enable Proton and play around with proton versions for each game.
Last edited by Bad 💀 Motha; 1 Sep @ 9:34pm
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libadwaita ΘΔ (she/they) 2 Sep @ 8:53am 
He's probably using the stock nouveau drivers, which while they work well for general desktop graphics acceleration are generally worse at 3D compared to the proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

He's gonna have to install the proprietary drivers. Next time though, it would be better to get an AMD or Intel graphics card since they don't require proprietary drivers you have to install after for best performance.
Last edited by libadwaita ΘΔ (she/they); 2 Sep @ 8:54am
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_I_ 2 Sep @ 9:25am 
Originally posted by libadwaita ΘΔ (she/her):
He's probably using the stock nouveau drivers, which while they work well for general desktop graphics acceleration are generally worse at 3D compared to the proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

He's gonna have to install the proprietary drivers. Next time though, it would be better to get an AMD or Intel graphics card since they don't require proprietary drivers you have to install after for best performance.
op marked it as solved, so i take it they installed the drivers and fixed the problem
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