Quoting: imdan12Does the update will work also on Tesla card like Nvidia 820m?

Isn't the 820m a Fermi chip? Not "Maxwell or above" anyway, so not with OpenGL 4.3 support.

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Quoting: MaokeiLook at everything else nvidia does pretty much everything is proprietary gsync, drivers, tools, etc It's part of their strategy to not share anything allow nothing to benefit anyone else than nvidia. And lock customers into their ecosystem.

This has been pretty much everyone's strategy in the past. Market leaders tend to resist change, even if this ultimately tends to lead to their downfall. Even Nvidia will adapt as soon as they start losing market share. They're all in it for the money. Different strategies, same goal.

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Quoting: DanglingPointerNot taking anything personally mate if you read my response, I tried to give you possible reasons for the crash.

Thanks, but I wasn't the one who had trouble starting the game after a crash. Restarted fine every time. I don't intend to replay the game now that it's done either. Thanks for trying to help though.

I'm in software development as well btw. You'll find there's probably a higher percentage of (professional and hobbyist) developers on this blog than your average gaming site, due to the Linux focus.

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Quoting: DanglingPointerI don't think it is crash prone as it has never crashed on me. Many thousands of others would be in the same boat as me.

I don't know why you take this so personally. The web is full of evidence to the contrary. If you've got better luck then good for you. Hope it stays that way for the rest of the game.

I actually finished the game yesterday (missing a single location from the bios section due to another known bug), and who has the time and patience to do all that stuff for the last achievement. Didn't crash once in the last ~15 hours of gameplay, which is nice. I guess Feral fixed it with jedi powers after receiving my support email. Despite the super lame (but entirely expected) ending, I mostly enjoyed the experience. Thanks Feral, more please. :)

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Quoting: monnefThe tearing is very visible when watching full hd video. Sadly it is working fine in Windows 10 (dual boot), so it shouldn't be a hw issue.

Which player? Use something that supports VPDAU, like mpv or Kodi. Or are you talking about Flash video on the web?

EDIT: Sorry, just noticed your earlier message. I remember having trouble with video tearing as well back before I started using Compton.

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Quoting: rea987Cause, Linux Mint will stick with kernel 4.4 for 2 years until the next LTS of Ubuntu released. Of course it will be possible to install backports but it still will be a hassle for end users.

No need for backports. 4.8 is available in the official repositories, and can be installed using Mint's kernels dialog. It only takes a few clicks.

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Quoting: tuubiBTW: Compton's VSync guide also has this to say about NVidia's ForceFullCompositionPipeline option:

However it’s indicated that it introduces huge (~30%) performance loss on some OpenGL applications.

I guess this info could be old and obsolete though?

That's very outdated information, my own tests have shown it to be a 2-3FPS difference, so that can be written off for benchmark differences each time you run it. Old cards may have more of an impact, but it hasn't been a problem for quite some time.

Good to hear.

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Quoting: GuestFor those who don’t know already, you can also use Compton to disable tearing, which may work with more than just the nvidia drivers:
compton --vsync opengl-swc --backend glx

Compton seems to be a popular choice for Xfce users like us, and for me it works pretty much perfectly, but looking at this [External Link] I think the optimal settings might be different for different graphics hardware. In fact the guide suggests that it might be better to use VSync options provided by the driver over Compton's own, if available.

The new Mint 18.1 Xfce actually includes a setting to use Compton as the compositor instead of Xfwm's own, making the switch as easy as clicking a checkbox, but I haven't looked at their default Compton config.

BTW: Compton's VSync guide also has this to say about NVidia's ForceFullCompositionPipeline option:

However it’s indicated that it introduces huge (~30%) performance loss on some OpenGL applications.

I guess this info could be old and obsolete though?

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Quoting: pete910I'll stick to two cups and some string thank very much :P

Isn't that one cup, two...

Nevermind.

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Quoting: TwombyWasn't able to upgrade to latest version.

Maybe you should try official drivers from www.nvidia.com.

Isn't that exactly what he did?

If your distro packages the latest proprietary drivers, there's rarely any reason to use the Nvidia installer instead. For Mint I recommend Ubuntu's semi-official Proprietary GPU drivers PPA [External Link].

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Quoting: Mountain ManAh, I was hoping it was a real fix that didn't rely on hacky work-arounds.

That fix is called Wayland.

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