Read errors on boot

[shy ether]

I recently installed mint on my pc and it's been giving me these errors every boot. I try playing different games that ran on 100+ fps on windows that now run barely on 60fps(same graphic settings). I did stuff such as reformatting storage drives to ext4 to prevent proton from erroring to tweaking nvidia settings and it seems to still not work.

[modest crypt]

i think you might be running the nouveau drivers instead of the nvidia propriatary drivers

thus causing poor performance

go to the driver manager and select the latest nvidia drivers

also we have the same cpu lol i5 3470

[shy ether]

I keep selecting the nvidia driver 545 and it seems to keep being on the nouveau one...

I did like 8 reboots selecting all 4 other nvidia drivers and restarting upon it being installed

This is the last one I selected

I got an error trying to install 545 driver

[crisp cedar]

the 525 nvidia driver was known to work well. Idk if it still appears in driver manager. If not, search nvidia in Synaptic package manager, and see what is available. (may have to switch to Nouveau and reboot first) then search. You may have to uninstall 545 in Synaptic, and install slightly older one.. or if older one doesn't show up in results list, choose one that does, then go to Package menu> Force version.

you card shows as a GTX 1050 which is older, so try above ^

Also turn OFF Secure Boot, this can interfere with driver loading, and is probably the cause of that boot error messages.

[shy ether]

Will do, I do have secure boot disabled, let me reboot and take a picture

Ok I'm on nouveau driver, how do I remove the nvidia package safely?

[crisp cedar]

well that's a good start. Have to wait for some others to chime in on this.

[shy ether]

Alright, I can watch my show in the meanwhile

[crisp cedar]

I don't have any so I can't tell you directly, but try to narrow the search down to just nvidia-driver until you find one with a green box (indicating it is installed,) and read the description to be sure it's the right thing. Try the Force Version thing like I said above, before actually removing it.

u can also figure out precisely the one ur currently using by doing inxi -G in CLI

oh nvm, u switch to nouveau, nvm.

[shy ether]

By sorting it shows only these 4 being installed

[crisp cedar]

I don't think libnvidia is the actual driver, just some library. The driver may show up as a meta package in the description, which means that package points to install a bunch of things.

you can switch back to whatever nvidia one you were using before, reboot. then do inxi -G and it should tell you the name.

[shy ether]

There's the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

[crisp cedar]

yeah don't touch or remove anything you're unsure of.

also do a Timeshift save before any major risky stuff like this.

or try a different one in Driver Manager.

[shy ether]

I think I have an auto one from yesterday

Yes, two from yesterday

[crisp cedar]

good

also have the Mint bootable USB stick available. If u get zero picture, u can boot with the stick, and run Timeshift to restore from that.

[shy ether]

Lemme get it real quick

Ok got it, so do I try installing the 525 version?

[crisp cedar]

yeah but try to see if u can do 'force version'

[crisp cedar]

first get name

[crisp cedar]

gotta switch off of nouveau first, to nvidia, then get the name

if u can, idk

[crisp cedar]

if you can.

[shy ether]

Not sure if I can just install every package of the driver tho

There's like 14

[crisp cedar]

not every. just one.

from driver manager

[shy ether]

Alright

Went with the recommended one

Now the driver is on

[crisp cedar]

koo

[crisp cedar]

a) does it play well?
b) find the name

nvidia 535.183. Test it out for a few hours.

[shy ether]

Alright

Will come back if it acts funny

the UI of the game is already smoother

Let me test how it runs in a match

The FPS in one game is fixed thru the use of Proton

[shy ether]

online games require me to update my video driver

This is where the installation error occurs

[shy ether]

That is fixed, now I just need to find a way to normally run easy anticheat

[crisp cedar]

are the startup errors at boot still showing?

[shy ether]

Yes

[shy ether]

so easy anticheat can't connect and download files when I'm using proton for some reason

[shy ether]

I tried downloading the file mentioned in the log and the file is 0 bytes in size...

[crisp cedar]

make a new ticket for a new topic. I have no idea about this.