Wine not recognising Nvidia driver

Stormmagedon · May 13, 2026, 8:45pm

Hi,

Forgive me cause i may be noob.
I've had a problem last month where my Steam game wouldn't launch on my GPU anymore (Games launched via wine were still OK), i've searched around and finally got it running by updating from Zorin 16->18

Fast foward to this day where the opposite happened, Steam game are lauching great, but Wine doesn't seem to recognize my card anymore, i've updated everything i could (Wine from the Zorin native version 10.0 to 11.0, My Nvidia Driver to the 595 Version)

I've tried to install libnvidia-egl-wayland1 and it doesn't do anything, i went the dxvk way but it got complicated and i didn't want to break anything.

So here i am, with wine launching game on my CPU
Here's my screenshot of my terminal, i can provide command result and all

Please Help Me

wesoliv429 · May 13, 2026, 11:22pm

If your using an nvidia vid card wayland doesnt play well with them best to be in X11 to get there log out then click area to log in then at bottom right click the gear then zorin desktop on xorg log in

Stormmagedon · May 14, 2026, 3:08am

Hi,

Thanks for the answer,
Is the Zorin desktop the one ?

I only got two and i tried both

I'm currently on the default one for the login (Zorin Desktop) and it seem to be X11

But Wine still doesnt care about my GPU

Thanks Tho

Storm · May 14, 2026, 3:19am

Is i386 architecture enabled? It might somehow got disabled.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-XXX nvidia-settings

XXX = number of the driver you want to use.

You might want to uninstall the driver first before trying this.

Stormmagedon · May 14, 2026, 1:13pm

Hi,

Got it done after purging my drivers and still no sucess

Ponce-De-Leon · May 14, 2026, 1:42pm

Welcome to the Forum!

Is Steam installed as Flatpak or .deb/APT Package?

Stormmagedon · May 14, 2026, 2:49pm

Hiiii, thanks a lot

I installed Steam trough the appstore so Flatpack, but steam is not at fault here.

I removed Wine 11.0 to reinstall it trough the Zorin app store (10.0) and even tho i have a different error message with the new version it's still doesnt load my driver

Ponce-De-Leon · May 14, 2026, 4:55pm

But it should be at least worth a Try to use the .deb Version. You can use the one in the Repos or download it from Steam directly:

Stormmagedon · May 14, 2026, 10:46pm

Steam is not the issue here, its actually the only way to get my games to work

The actual issue is wine wich is not loading my GPU driver if i read correctly the error message.

Ponce-De-Leon · May 15, 2026, 9:54am

Flatpaks run containerized. That can cause Issues because they have limited Permissions. Trying the .deb Version is to check if this here the Case. But when You don't want try it, I can't force You to do it.

Stormmagedon · June 3, 2026, 1:09pm

Hi,

Would you be so kind to point me where i could download a .deb version of wine?
I searched for a bit but didn't find anything

Thanks

Aravisian · June 3, 2026, 1:13pm

It shows LLVMPipe.
To me, this suggests that the 595 driver may not be installed (Or maybe is, but not in use).

How did you install it?
Can you show the terminal output of

sudo lshw -C video

and

smi-nvidia

Stormmagedon · June 3, 2026, 1:18pm

Hi, thanks a lot for the quick reply,

Stormmagedon · June 3, 2026, 1:22pm

running nvidia-smi sorry

wesoliv429 · June 3, 2026, 1:24pm

Thats all right can see what driver your using I would try the 580 driver for the 3080 open the updater then settings aditional drivers and select the 580 properitery driver tested and see if that helps

Aravisian · June 3, 2026, 1:41pm

All of that looks good.
So much for my idea that maybe the driver was not fully installed.

But...
Let me recommend something.
Completely remove the Nvidia Driver such that the leftover files are also removed:
sudo apt remove --purge '^nvidia-.*' '^libnvidia-.*'

Once that is done, then install the driver you want (choose whether you want to try the 580 or the 595 again) using

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-595 nvidia-dkms-595

The reason why is that with gaming, some of the leftover files can actually conflict - causing the system to see and use the GPU, but a running game gets confused and won't.

Stormmagedon · June 3, 2026, 1:57pm

Installing the 580 pilote juste kinda broke everything lol

But purging all the nvidia driver and reinstalling the 595 did the trick

It seem i was missing the '^libnvidia-.*' part in the purge command so you were perfectly right

Thanks you so much, you're my hero from now on lol
I wish you a day as nice as the one you're allowing me to have by sharing your wisdom