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I am looking for help with switching from Windows to Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been thinking about switching to Linux for a while, but there are some things that make me want to stay on Windows. For example, Gaming and installation of graphics card and software availability.

My G-Card was GT 730 2 GB ddr5.

Can I be able to play the games that Windows supported without losing frames?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This card requires legacy drivers. Getting this to work is going to be a pain and a half in the rear. I've done it before.

Basically, what you need to do is this:

During OS installation it will install the modern GPU driver, which will not work with that GPU
Once installed, boot the PC. You will very briefly see an error message during boot that the GPU isn't supported by the driver.
Now you first need to unload the current driver kernel module.
Then unstall the current driver package in your package manager.
Install the 470 legacy driver from the package manager
Load the legacy kernel module
Reboot and hope it all works.

Google how to do each of these steps, since they are a bit too complicated to get into it here, also they are dependant on the Linux distro you chose.

Btw: you will be losing frames. Support for legacy Nvidia GPUs isn't great at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks👾 :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Buying a modern cheap low end card might give you the same or better framerate tha~t~n this legacy card.

And steer away from Nvidia.

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

Btw, apparently there are multiple types of 730. Some are supported by the 470 driver, some not. If yours is not, try the 390 driver.