Some time ago, I asked in already closed thread about a certain problem, and got an answer that my problem most probably lies in unsupported drivers for our legacy nvidia card.
This was a recommended driver I should switch to (specifically 340 driver).
Since I am finally will be able to have a look at that PC again, can somebody be so nice and either point me to step by step installation of driver like this or write it down for me?
I was able to find this thread and successfully reinstalled different drivers like that on another PC, but in that case I had them downloaded directly form NVidia page.
But this legacy driver is in some Linux format I have no idea how to work with.
I am quite a beginner with Linux, and reinstalling drivers is not as easy as on Windows, so step by step manual would be greatly appreciated.
We recently upgraded that machine to Zorin OS 17.2 Core.
I see your closed thread got hijacked by BlackJoker. I note that @Aravisian in the closed thread had suggested adding a repository to enable a legacy driver for your card but there is no response from you, but Black Joker. With regard to Steam and comments about anti-cheat mode this occurs because games running inside of Steam is like running games in a Virtual Machine, and because of this, there is a delay caused from your Steam Platform and the Game server; the delay might be miniscule, but proprietary games servers misinterpret this as a cheat being used. I recently installed Q4OS on my youngest's machine, interestingly, Steam was listed in Discover (Plasma's equivalent of Software in Zorin) wouldn't install because of missing dependencies. After searching the Q4OS forum, I discovered that Steam is only available as a Flatpak, so this might have been a pointer as to why other forum members had been having issues.
Hi, in my Case (MS Flight Simulator X) is definitely not hampered with anti-cheat measures.
As for the the original thread, after @Aravisian wrote me that it is currently broken down across many games for steam, I did not bother checking the thread after that anymore and unfortunately I missed his reply about these drivers.
That topic still works with 22.04, just tested it on the acer unit i have. All i had to do was to install GCC because otherwise the driver fails to install (building kernel modules). It needed a higher GCC version (12 or 13).
Also tested the latest beta driver that will fix the suspend issue i have on the acer unit. The acer unit is very picky with the nvidia drivers. Since 560 got released 2 machines got affected by it here.
Well well it seems the issues the acer unit has are completely gone with the 565 beta drivers. Tested the unit all day (my wife). Normally she gets black screens during suspend or when she boots the machine a blinking cursor.