Zorin OS 17.3 Lite Nvidia GeForce GT530 Graphics Hardware Acceleration?

phade · October 1, 2025, 1:33pm

Hi there,

I have a quick question. Is there a way that I can get hardware acceleration to work with my Nvidia GeForce GT530 graphics card ?

I tried the Software & Updates part of Zorin OS and tried using the suggested legacy 390 driver but it failed to install correctly and booted up into VGA mode after restart.

I'm generally trying to get Kdenlive to render videos a lot faster than it does at the moment.

System:-
AMD Athlon 64, 4Gb RAM, Nvidia GeForce GT 530 (1Gb Video Ram).

Thank you everyone in advance.

Forpli · October 1, 2025, 1:47pm

Take a look here:

Add the kelebek333 ppa or install kernel 5.15. The 390 nvidia drivers from the repo don't work with kernel 6.8.

To purge installed nvidia drivers please use this command:

sudo apt remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'

To add the ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/nvidia-legacy

sudo apt update

Then install the 390 nvidia driver.
Also make sure that secure boot and fast boot in your BIOS are disabled, and also fast startup in Windows if you have a Dualboot with Windows.

phade · October 1, 2025, 5:16pm

I managed to (eventually) get the driver to work (and thank you for your help too).

I do have another question (for everyone).

Does anyone know how I can get Nvenc (or any other form of Nvidia hardware acceleration) to install and work with Kdenlive ?

Thank you everyone in advance.

StarTreker · October 1, 2025, 11:16pm

I have fairly modern hardware, Nvidia RTX 3080, and when I tried to use my Nividia GPU, it didn't like it either. I really believe that production workloads, was always meant for the CPU, which is why I made sure to get an 8-core 16-thread CPU.

What you want to do, is dedicate more threads to your CPU in Kdenlive, and you will see a boost of rendering speed, even at 4K! This is how you do it...

(1) Click on "Settings" at the top, then click on "Configure Kdenlive."

(2) Click on "Environment" on the left. Default is 2-threads, I have 16-threads available, so I set mine to 8-threads to be safe. Make sure to click "APPLY"

This will speed up Kdenlive Project working overall.

(3) Its even more important to set your Encoder rendering threads, we do this when your in the render portion of your video. I set this to 16 threads

I also set Encoder speed to 3/4, this speeds up rendering.

(4) Do not enable Parallel Processing, while it sounds like a nice to have boost, according to Kdenlive, using it will add artifacting to your video's.

I hope this helps!