The open-source radeon driver should already be included in your system by default. More information on the Debian radeon driver can be found here: The installation of the open source radeon driver is straightforward, and is likely installed on your system by default. Open-Source Drivers Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, Mint, and derivatives You can find that information here:ĭebian, because of the nature of the project, does not include these drivers in their repository by default, so you have to enable the non-free repository to get the proprietary AMD/ATI drivers. It is recommended to use their documentation for your AMD card on the Ubuntu distros (Mint should be very similar, if not exactly the same). More information can be found here:ĪMD Proprietary Drivers Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, Mint, and derivativesĪs of now, the official Ubuntu docs are VERY detailed in the installation of the open-source and proprietary graphics drivers. Things are starting to look up, but there are a lot of caveats to running the open-source NVIDIA drivers. Unfortunately, the open-source nouveau drivers are not really up-to-par on performance yet for gaming. The project's website has detailed documentation for most major distributions, so it is recommended to go by that: PRIME is not recommended, as it utilizes the open-source NVIDIA driver ( nouveau), and will not give the performance desired for most games. The current working solution is maintained by the Bumblebee Project. More information on Optimus can be found here: NVIDIA Optimus technology is a feature in laptops with newer Intel CPU's with integrated GPUs and discrete NVIDIA graphics cards that allows switching between graphics processors on-the-fly, to optimize the performance when needed, and maximizing battery life when not needing the discrete graphics card. Please use the Arch Linux docs whenever possible for graphics issues: You can find that information here:Īrch Linux is pretty straightforward when it comes to this, and their documentation is quite concise.
The manual installation is a bit more involved, but it is preferred by a lot of users.ĭebian, because of the nature of the project, does not include these drivers in their repository by default, so you have to enable the non-free repository to get the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 If your card is supported by the current NVIDIA driver, the following command should pull in the required libraries: That does not always work though, and it sometimes will offer less-than-ideal versions of drivers for your NVIDIA card. Most of the time, the easiest way is using the "Additional Drivers" dialogue. NVIDIA Proprietary Drivers Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, Mint, and derivatives If you think that you are missing your graphics drivers or even just the 32-bit libraries for them, this is a good place to start: CodeWeavers has an excellent, short, concise article on installing these 32-bit libraries on the most popular distros. Luckily, installing the 32-bit graphics libraries for your graphics card is easy on every popular distro. Without them, they game will be grumpy or otherwise just not work.
As an example, if you have a 64-bit Ubuntu installation, and install a 32-bit program from PlayOnLinux (again, almost every single one is 32-bit), the program will tell Wine that it wants to speak to the 32-bit graphics libraries. These 32-bit installations in PlayOnLinux will require 32-bit versions of certain libraries on your system. Most people nowadays run 64-bit operating systems, but Wine almost always uses 32-bit Virtual Drives. 4.1 Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, Mint, and derivativesīy far, the most common issue encountered when trying to run games through POL/POM/Wine has to be graphics drivers.3.2.1 Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, Mint, and derivatives.3.1.1 Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, Mint, and derivatives.
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