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I don't daily drive the 640M mac edition
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Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:27 AM
like 15 years old now
?
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 3:28 AM
My actual PC is a little more usable
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:28 AM
2012 Vintage so 12ish years ig
8
8BitAurum
•
7/6/24, 3:28 AM
hello everyone
V
Valerie
I don't daily drive the 640M mac edition
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 3:28 AM
I know for a fact I
'm going to need to layer wifi hardware packages
N
Noctis
•
7/6/24, 3:29 AM
I actually had a 670
. Man 2012
? Now I feel old
. Feels like a year ago
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:29 AM
Feel it
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:30 AM
Been running windows 7 to get my sense of the world back in order
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 3:32 AM
Oh
! On to installing flatpaks now
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:33 AM
I am curious as to what will happen if the Nvidia driver doesn
't load
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:33 AM
maybe it will just fallback regardless
M
M2
•
7/6/24, 3:36 AM
We no longer blacklist nouveau so it should fallback
.
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 3:36 AM
How useless is nouveau going to be lmao
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:37 AM
Xmoto is all the gaming you need
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:37 AM
That said I haven
't used it in ages but they at least were getting some 3D going reasonably ok at the time
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:37 AM
I think last time I used it the drivers were 2D only but I might be wrong
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:38 AM
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html
freedesktop.org
FeatureMatrix · freedesktop.org
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:38 AM
NVE0 for 600 I think
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 3:39 AM
looks relateively complete
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 3:50 AM
Oh yeah looks like it
's gonna be nouveau
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 3:51 AM
Supported through 470 legacy driver
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 3:53 AM
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 4:00 AM
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 4:01 AM
I wonder what would actually work on here lol
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:02 AM
https://flathub.org/apps/org.tuxfamily.XMoto
Flathub - Apps for Linux
Install X-Moto on Linux | Flathub
2D motocross platform game
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:03 AM
Hardcore linux gaming like supertux and supertux kart
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:03 AM
do wonder how much runs on the steam
/proton side of things over 10fps
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 4:04 AM
In terms of distros
, what would be best suited for this
?
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:05 AM
I think arch has the legacy drivers in the aur but idk if it actually works
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:05 AM
Would probably want a distro with a long LTS that still manages to support it
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:05 AM
because kernel updates are a gamble
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 4:06 AM
I might try debian on it
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 4:06 AM
I
've run debian on it as a server and it mostly works
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:08 AM
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/nvidia-tesla-470-driver
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:08 AM
looks semi
-promissing
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:09 AM
Debian 12 is a hecking solid release and should be supported for a minute
J
Johnny Appleseed
Debian 12 is a hecking solid release and should be supported for a minute
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 4:09 AM
I probably won
't be using this for too long
, I just want to try a game on it
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 4:10 AM
Does this driver even support vulkan
?
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:10 AM
Probably not
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:10 AM
I mean it says Vulkan
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:10 AM
but I dunno if it
's supported on kepler at all
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:12 AM
Random reddit post mentions Vulkan on Kepler so theoretically possible
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:13 AM
imagine it
's the lowest spec on that
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:14 AM
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/gfecnt/vulkan-graphics-api-launches-nvidia-gpus-game-ready/
The Vulkan Graphics API Is Here, and Your NVIDIA GPU Is Ready
Owners of Game Ready GeForce GTX GPUs can today play The Talos Principle using the newly
-released low
-level Vulkan graphics API
.
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:14 AM
"NVIDIA has worked closely with the Khronos Group
, the creators of Vulkan
, throughout its development
, and as of today all Kepler and Maxwell graphics card running Windows 7 or later
, or Linux
, are supported by Vulkan
.
"
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:14 AM
Still got my doubts on modern Vulkan stuff but science
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:15 AM
https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listreports.php?devicename=NVIDIA+GeForce+GT+640M
Vulkan on gpuinfo.org
Vulkan hardware capability database
.
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:16 AM
Technically maybe possible
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/6/24, 4:16 AM
the linux lifestyle
J
Johnny Appleseed
https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listreports.php?devicename=NVIDIA+GeForce+GT+640M
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/6/24, 4:16 AM
Yeah I
've seen the card supports 1
.2 but I imagine it
's also driver
-dependant
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