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.
It is not my intention to question or insult your intelligence, only to offer a stupid solution as it’s happened before.
Is your monitor connected to the video card and not accidentally the motherboard?
It is connected to the graphics card. Like I said, it ran fine on Windows so its not a hardware issue.
Secure Boot can sometimes mess with it. Try disabling that in your BIOS.
This seems to have fixed it! Thank you!
The most current NVidia driver generation needs special setup for secure boot. But IIRC it doesn’t support the non RTX cards anymore. And sadly I can’t remember how to set up the older generations.
For the newest you need a setup that compiles and signs the Kernel module of the driver and you also need to manually import the (generated) key into your UEFI to allow secure boot to succeed. The former is usually mostly automated by your distribution, but the latter need to be done by you manually.
Or, just disable the increasingly inaccurately-named “Secure Boot.”
Yeah, that’s always an option. If you want to. On paper I like the idea for security reasons, but I dislike that a single company can basically control, what is able to be installed/executed and what is not allowed.
It’s always something-something-Microsoft
Check to make sure you are using the ‘recommended’ video driver for your system according to the driver manager. Also, check to make sure that you have installed all available updates through the updates manager.
It sounds like you are using Steam, so I would recommend using the install directly from the official site instead of the flatpak, if that’s what you’ve done.
I haven’t used NVIDIA for years so I’m not much help with that, but have you tried using the Proton version of Portal? It usually works better than the native version.
Unfortunately its not just Portal thats the issue. Its everything.
Have you tried the proton version of everything?
I have for some, and had the same issues, but its solved now. Apparently secureboot messes with the GPU drivers or something. I turned that off and its working fine now.
Just a guess, you’re not done the MOK, that’s kind of keys used to sign modules that are stored somewhere deep in the hardware. Without them your laptop refused to load the proper modules and you was using shitty nouvea driver, so the bad performance.
I’m pretty sure the newer nvidia driver dropped support for the 1050. but I’m not sure which driver version was the last to support the 1050. whichever it is though, you will probably need to get that one.
I’m sorry I can’t really help in any meaningful way except to say I had the exact same terrible issues. I got an AMD card instead and all the problems are gone.
