So i have an Asus 550CC laptop and i wanted to switch it to Linux, but i’m having trouble getting the Nvidia card to work. I’ve spent a week googling, following several tutorials, distro-hopping and whatever but i didn’t manage to get it working. This is my last resort, if anyone has the ability to help me succeed and wants to help, i will greatly appreciate it.
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I notice you have many graphics drivers installed. I assume you installed anything and everything that you could find, and now nothing seems to work. I’m sure someone will chime in soon enough to explain why that’s not a good idea.
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So, in theory it is working?
After a bit more googling i managed to launch a 3D game for the first time so that should mean something. Performance wasn’t the best though so how do i make absolutely sure i am using the nvidia card?
Also, it seems bumblebee does not support vulkan but i’m guessing theres not much that can be done about that as i probably need bumblebee anyway.
I really thought that the only way i could make my card work with Linux was through Bumblebee. Now that you pointed me in another direction i decided to try Optimus Manager.
So i uninstalled Bumblebee, popped in the 390xx nvidia driver and Optimus Manager, added optimus-manager.startup=nvidia to Kernel parameters in /etc/default/grub, changed Proton version to 6.3-8, and set the PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% in Steam Launch Options.
And.It.Works. cries
Performance is now on par with Winblows so thank you cscs and everyone else for the help as well!