nVidia Proprietary Driver Issues - Good GPU, Poor Performace

[oshunluvr]

Basic package lists do wonders:

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#54FF54][B]stuart@office[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]:[/COLOR][COLOR=#54FFFF][B]~/Documents/Google[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]$ apt-cache search nvidia |grep 410[/COLOR]
libnvidia-cfg1-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library[/COLOR]
libnvidia-common-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries[/COLOR]
libnvidia-compute-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA libcompute package[/COLOR]
libnvidia-decode-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries[/COLOR]
libnvidia-encode-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVENC Video Encoding runtime library[/COLOR]
libnvidia-fbc1-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library[/COLOR]
libnvidia-gl-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD[/COLOR]
libnvidia-ifr1-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library[/COLOR]
nvidia-compute-utils-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA compute utilities[/COLOR]
nvidia-dkms-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA DKMS package[/COLOR]
nvidia-driver-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA driver metapackage[/COLOR]
nvidia-headless-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA headless metapackage[/COLOR]
nvidia-headless-no-dkms-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA headless metapackage - no DKMS[/COLOR]
nvidia-kernel-common-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - Shared files used with the kernel module[/COLOR]
nvidia-kernel-source-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA kernel source package[/COLOR]
nvidia-utils-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA driver support binaries[/COLOR]
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-[COLOR=#FF5454][B]410[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver[/COLOR]

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You can plainly see that the binary driver is xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-410 while nvidia-driver-410 is a meta package - that is a package that does nothing but draw in other packages. *buntus use dkms so that packages as well as the kernel packages and OpenGL packages are needed. I just installed everything and it works here, just not System Settings > Driver Manager

[jglen490]

And just "because", dkms = Dynamic Kernel Module Support

[claydoh]

Another thing to note is that when moving between different Nvidia driver versions, make sure to run apt autoremove to remove any stray packages from the previous driver left over - I have seen this a lot with the PPA driver packages, but it often happens with the official packages as well.

This caused all sort of weirdness foe me

But I moved to AMD and zero problems. No proprietary drivers to install or tweak (tho updated mesa et al from a ppa does improve gaming somewhat here)