the only other difference so far: when playing one single game: it makes the entire system sometimes freeze up and force me to reboot

a game that worked perfectly before

oh, you are one of those kinds of people thinking that gaming is not for adults

you had me at the first half ngl

This thread made me look at it and see the newer driver

Is there an amd card/PC youd consider an equivalent or upgrade?

i switched to 550 yesterday, it was 535 before that

i didnt exactly stress test with a couple dozen games, the one game i tried had the same error message as before

idk man, mints driver manager do be saying nvidia is recommended

but besides that, i tried asking for an equivalent card on lemmy once, ill leave it at: im not inclined to try again

henceforth, if amd, prebuilt only

and regarding driver and kernel version, the moment i have to fiddle with either to get something working to the extent you are describing, im burning my pc

ngl, id rather stick with what is recommended before i go through hundreds of slightly differently named drivers

for linux mint, i do the suggested driver (probably not the latest)

for others like endeavouros it was always the latest nvidia driver

i dont think i ever needed the extra ram anyway since i put it in, will remove them real quick

thank you for your own detailed response

when i say didnt work, it usually means two things, it either:

1. didnt launch at all, no window, no nothing no error message

2. window does open and it shows a error message/only shows an error message

yee, 16gb is plenty enough as it is anyway

having differently sized ram sounded like something so trivial and inconsequential of a thing it didnt exactly cross my mind that it would problems to begin with

and some games do work so it isnt consistent enough of a thing to be noticed to me

im also not a computer wiz grandmaster

i tried nobara, i dont remember why but for one reason or another the install was kinda borked

i tried it once actually, i dont know what it was but it never really stuck with me, probably cause of gnome

i do love my “old school” menu bar

if a bit more ram (and no other hardware changes) actually causes so much issues with gaming, is it really a me problem?

that just sound like a rather trivial change

if you say that its truly that funky, i can remove the extra ram and make it a simple and ncie 16gb

protondb is showing if it works at all yes, btu it also has a bunch of epople and possible tweaks showing it

neither protondb own ratings nor these tweaks did much to make any of the games i tried work (i dont recall any of them being native to linux)

my rig is a pretty common stock build (minus the increased ram)

so if it isnt a hardware issue, and i dont tinker with system files, or any funky stuff like that

why would it be a “me” issues?

i never tried dualbooting ebfore

two reasons mainly:

1. i simply find it too bothersome

2. im 100% certain ill screw something up

i can see why, i always make sure its activated before i force a specific proton version to try, just to be sure

is the old shutup method still good to go for win 10?

while i am always paranoid i am considering the switch fairly often recently

I havent played much of any multiplayers games in years actually (does honkai star rial count?

for old games, most vividly i can remember having some trouble with dawn of war so i used soulstorm and a mod to play the og campaign in it

i tend to stay away from triple a games, one of which is because they dont play nice with linux, space marine 2 is a different case for me cause, well, i really like the universe (boltgun worked for the msot part so that was nice)

game categories: well, i dont have too many category i stay away from, but

favourite older games: advance wars series, age of mythology (retold i tried but doesnt work for me either), castlevania aria of sorrow/SOTN, elite beat agents, pepsiman, orcs and elves, punch out wii, katamari series, ace attorney trilogy, dawn of war

favourite never/ish games: hyrule warriors, lego lord of the rings, boltgun, kingdom hearts BBS, patapon