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akdeg

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Registered: 2021-11-11

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[SOLVED] Driver Options for my Nvidia GT 730

Hello, I have a good old GT 730 First Edition which has good compatibility with Nouveau drivers as I'm aware of. I'm using "nvidia-390xx" drivers from AUR right now, since Nvidia dropped support for this card.

My question is would it be better if I used Nouveau because Firefox doesn't have NVDECODE support, so CPU does the job while watching videos and such. I don't know if there will be performance loss while playing games or compatibility issues with other apps. I wanted to take your opinions and suggestions before trying it.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by akdeg (2022-02-27 04:02:22)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Driver Options for my Nvidia GT 730

There are generally basically no benefits to nouveau if  you have working nvidia drivers, even if it's just the "old" nvidia-390xx branch, unless you'd want to use wayland, but there are often a few lower level problems in nouveau's GL implementation that can make this an issue anyway. The better option would be to switch to nvidia-470xx if this is a real 730 GT that's technically still a Kepler card. To know whether that's the case look at/post the identifier from lspci. If it's GFxxx then it's Fermi and you need to stay on nvidia-390xx if it's GKxxx it's Kepler and you could actually update to the 470xx branch which will have nvdec support and you could then opt for https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvid … driver-git to enable VAAPI for firefox and the like.

akdeg

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Registered: 2021-11-11

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Driver Options for my Nvidia GT 730

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately it's a Fermi card. I'll stay on propriatery drivers until buying a new one.