#Freezes in games after nvidia driver update

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lean vigil
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Recently arch updated nvidia drivers to 590xx. After that update, I've started experiencing issues with frequent (2-3min) freezes that stop me from gaming peacefully. I've tried downgrading to 580xx and it, in fact, fixed the issue at some point, however I've got issues with overall performance with that driver, so instead of getting 160-170 fps in The Finals, I was getting almost 2 times less: 80-90fps.

I've also tried reconfiguring proton, using different builds like Proton-GE, but neither of these helped to solve the issue.
My setup is arch + hyprland + rtx 3070.

shadow crow
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You should use nvidia-open drivers with THAT card!

lean vigil
shadow crow
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saying to use nvidia-open, or nvidia, or even nvidia-5800-xxxx for EVERYTHING

shadow crow
lean vigil
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i think i do already use dkms variant
what's the diff btw?

shadow crow
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the -dkms will work for ANY kernel, but requires headers to install
it will fail SILENTLY without headers

shadow crow
lean vigil
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wouldn't the entire driver fail without headers at this point?

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i don't think that the case

shadow crow
shadow crow
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and then you wouldnt be able to use it...

lean vigil
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plus nvidia-smi does work, should have mentioned this at the very begginning

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anyway will try tomorrow

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hope switching to the opensource version will help

shadow crow
lean vigil
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nvidia-open

shadow crow
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yes, but opensource is the basic display driver thats in-kernel

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nvidia-open is not opensource

lean vigil
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so nvidia-open is not opensource?

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uh oh

shadow crow
# lean vigil so nvidia-open is not opensource?

you can look at the github repo, its not developed in an open source way:
thay just do one giant push from a private repo for each point release

and , allmost everything is done in binary blobs for which there is no source-code provided....
the only part thats actually open-source is the "glue" that keeps stuff together....

lean vigil