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Re: Can't play Steam games

On 08/05/2018 12:26 PM, Jose G. López wrote:

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 15:24:51 -0400
Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:


On 08/04/2018 02:30 PM, Jose G. López wrote:

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 13:28:13 -0400
Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:


Enter this: in a terminal:  inxi -SGx
What do you get?? Ric



Hi Ric,

I get this:
----------
$ inxi -SGx
System:    Host: pc-debian Kernel: 4.17.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0
             Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid
Graphics:  Card-1: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 390.77
             bus ID: 02:00.0
             Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.0 driver: nvidia resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
             OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.1.5
             direct render: Yes
----------


It doesn't note that a driver is installed. So, if you have the nvidia
driver installed directly from nvidia, remove it. From a terminal run
"locate nvidia", you might have to remove those files by hand IF you
directly installed the driver from the nvidia website. Next, run
software updater (it's in your XFCE system menu tab) and let it install
your driver for you. Before you reboot, run /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig to
create the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for you. Then a reboot should have
you up and running. I HOPE this helps. Ric



Hi Ric,

I always use nvidia driver from Debian but strangely OpenGL renderer
in use was Mesa (I didn't noticed when pasted the output). Don't know
which upgrade changed that. That should be the problem. I have purged
nvidia completly and installed again with:

$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-driver nvidia-settings libgl1-nvidia-glx
libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 libnvidia-glcore:i386

Those latest packages installs non-GLVND OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES 32-bit
libraries which I think work better with old games. Now I get:

$ inxi -SGx
System:    Host: pc-debian Kernel: 4.17.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0
            Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid
Graphics:  Card-1: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 390.77
            bus ID: 02:00.0
            Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.0 driver: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
            resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
            OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77
            direct render: Yes

Tried some games and are loading and running fine.

Thank you!
Great to hear!! I'm running two GeForce GTX 1050 Ti cards to 3 monitors. Using xinerama I have one display of 5760x1080 pixels across the three. I love my nVidia drivers. Ric 



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