I have an older computer that I use for some simple games. Its I5-7400, GTX-1050, 12GB memory, and an SSD - not new by any standards, but most of the games I’m playing are a decade old or more. I switched to Linux Mint today, since I don’t want to use Windows 11, but the performance on Mint is terrible compared to Windows 10. For example, in Portal 2’s native Linux version, I get like 10 fps in the title screen. War Thunder doesn’t even launch. The drivers are set to Nvidia’s proprietary drivers via the GUI. Am I missing something? I’d really rather not switch back to Windows.
Edit: VulkanInfo is saying, “ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0: loader_scanned_icd_add: Could not get ‘vkCreateInstance’ via…”
It also seems to only be showing my CPU, not gpu? Not certain, since I don’t unstand a lot of the details, but it says, “deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU”.
Edit 2: turning off secureboot fixed it.
Secureboot isn’t worth the 1’s and 0’s it’s made of. It’s the illusion of security, since it was already defeated. It only inhibits incompetent hackers and malware. The weakest link in all computer security is always the user. SB just causes more problems than solutions.
this is really stupid advice. Secureboot should be installed on laptop otherwise your device is as good as open. Sure it has some CVEs but its a big step up in security and its getting better and better on linux.
This performance issue is likely due to an issue with the driver not with secure boot itself. Maybe since it is an old driver it wasnt signed.