Devkrin Posted July 11 Report Posted July 11 I didn't expect it to run perfect but honestly it used to run really good on Windows 10. It seems like I cant download any official drivers for GTX760 anymore so I'm stuck with the opensource nouvuea one. Basically it's pretty much unplayable. Moving around with the mouse everything is super slow-mo. Stats: Linux Mint 23 GTX 760 i5 4590 H97M-PLUS motherboard 16GB RAM PC was built in 2015. Anything I can do?
Diff Posted July 11 Report Posted July 11 2 hours ago, Devkrin said: I didn't expect it to run perfect but honestly it used to run really good on Windows 10. It seems like I cant download any official drivers for GTX760 anymore so I'm stuck with the opensource nouvuea one. Basically it's pretty much unplayable. Moving around with the mouse everything is super slow-mo. nouveau drivers are really not great. they're basically unusable for anything more than desktop acceleration for that card IIRC. You'll need to find a source for the proprietary drivers. You wouldn't download them from Nvidia, Mint should have an official way of getting Nvidia drivers and likely a guide on it . With a quick search, it looks like Mint uses an app called "Driver Manager" for this. 1
Devkrin Posted July 12 Author Report Posted July 12 6 hours ago, Diff said: nouveau drivers are really not great. they're basically unusable for anything more than desktop acceleration for that card IIRC. You'll need to find a source for the proprietary drivers. You wouldn't download them from Nvidia, Mint should have an official way of getting Nvidia drivers and likely a guide on it . With a quick search, it looks like Mint uses an app called "Driver Manager" for this. Looking around a Nvidia version 470 is available but according to chatgpt it's an LM21 vesrion and using it could lead to issues. Is it something I can somewhat safely risk?
tedesco98 Posted July 12 Report Posted July 12 4 hours ago, Devkrin said: Looking around a Nvidia version 470 is available but according to chatgpt it's an LM21 vesrion and using it could lead to issues. Is it something I can somewhat safely risk? I believe the risks are up to the kernel version you're using when choosing to download the 470 driver. In Linux Mint you should be able to downgrade to kernel version 6.8 so the drivers are stable. 1
Diff Posted July 12 Report Posted July 12 (edited) 7 hours ago, Devkrin said: Looking around a Nvidia version 470 is available but according to chatgpt it's an LM21 vesrion and using it could lead to issues. Is it something I can somewhat safely risk? It's impossible to say without more info. Filling in the blanks, if you're talking about installing LM21's legacy 470 drivers on LM22, that almost definitely would not work, and likely would cause issues. Mixing repos is one of the classic ways to break your system in two. There's a very recent PSA up on the mint forum about changes to the Nvidia legacy drivers, which includes instructions on installing them on a fresh system. Seems like upstream Ubuntu is doing some shenanigans with them that are disrupting things for Mint. Edited July 12 by Diff 1
Devkrin Posted July 13 Author Report Posted July 13 On 7/12/2026 at 11:54 AM, tedesco98 said: I believe the risks are up to the kernel version you're using when choosing to download the 470 driver. In Linux Mint you should be able to downgrade to kernel version 6.8 so the drivers are stable. On 7/12/2026 at 2:40 PM, Diff said: It's impossible to say without more info. Filling in the blanks, if you're talking about installing LM21's legacy 470 drivers on LM22, that almost definitely would not work, and likely would cause issues. Mixing repos is one of the classic ways to break your system in two. There's a very recent PSA up on the mint forum about changes to the Nvidia legacy drivers, which includes instructions on installing them on a fresh system. Seems like upstream Ubuntu is doing some shenanigans with them that are disrupting things for Mint. I installed kernel 6.8, did the thing they said in your post. My desk top will be zoomed in, Firefox wont be able to load bookmarks or use firefox history and my game still runs like shit exactly the same. I expected these things to happen in Linux of course but not with a game MADE for Linux. I expected it to be like this with installing WoW or something. This pc is actually my old pc on which I wanted to test Linux, my other pc is a 2 year old rx 6700 xt, 5950 amd machine that still has windows. But if I can't make it work on this one, I'm never installing Linux on that one. I just need 470 to work on this machine. What do I do? Should I go to linux mint dot com and install LM21 and just use that forever? Will it work then? Never use any other higher version?
Teh Pizza Lady Posted July 13 Report Posted July 13 51 minutes ago, Devkrin said: Should I go to linux mint dot com and install LM21 and just use that forever? Will it work then? Never use any other higher version? In all honesty, no. LM21 stops getting security updates in April 2027, so you have less than a year before you have an internet-connected machine running an unpatched OS. You have a really old GPU and that's going to be a problem in a LOT of games, not just Vintage Story. The GTX 760 was considered obsolete in 2021 when Nvidia dropped support for their Kepler architecture, and Nvidia cards lose support on most Linux systems at the same schedule as their Windows counterparts. This is especially frustrating when you consider that the 1st gen Maxwell cards (GTX 750/750ti) still have better support because their architecture is newer... which seems backwards because the 760 is binned higher, but it's still on the older Kepler architecture. That's just how Nvidia does it: support is tied to the architecture, not how good the card was. I think this is going to be one of those issues where you just need to change hardware and go Team Red. Get a newer GPU or change to AMD. AMD's drivers live in the kernel and Mesa, so they're maintained by the community instead of being frozen whenever the manufacturer loses interest. Cards even older than your 760 still get active driver work on Linux to this day. The RX 580 still gets great support, comfortably outruns a 760, works out of the box on Mint with zero driver installation, and it's anywhere from 30 to 100 bucks on eBay depending on the seller. Either way happy gaming and I hope you get this issue resolved. Tweaking the software and getting old drivers to work on a newer OS was a pain in the butt for me back in 2012 and still is today. Pinning your kernel means you miss out on security updates too, and every time you touch your OS you have to double-check you're not accidentally updating the kernel and losing GPU support. That's a lot of on-going babysitting to keep one game running, versus a one-time purchase that "just works", to quote the venerable Todd Howard. TL;DR: There's a reason why Linux gamers refer to Nvidia as NoVideo and why Steam Deck uses AMD hardware now. Nvidia on Linux is only worth it if you have recent hardware and the patience to manage drivers. 1
Devkrin Posted July 13 Author Report Posted July 13 @Teh Pizza Lady I see. Thank you for your answer. I will try it on my newer PC than.
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