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rainytuesday

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Registered: 2023-06-02

Posts: 1

Nvidia drivers not working on steam games despite already installed.

Newbie here. Just got Arch a couple of days ago switching over from Windows. I downloaded steam after getting all of my display stuff working. Upon launching War Thunder (I got no display of the game), I got a crash report saying that Video Mode Initialization Error (88111000B). I did a quick search and followed the Arch Wiki's guide to installing the nvidia drivers but still, I got the same report. I thought I might have screwed up the install/configuration process and deleted all of the things i had downloaded so that I could start from scratch. I figured I would consult the community as I found no help for my problem elsewhere.

After asking the question elsewhere somebody told me to install the nvidia package, reboot, and run the "lspci -nnk" command and check to see if the driver is active under there. After rebooting and entering in the "lspci -nnk" into my command line i got the output:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] [10de:1c8d] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] [1025:1265]
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Clearly here it says that (after installing) the nvidia driver is not in use. I just need to know how to change the driver in use from nouveau to nvidia. Or so thats what I think.

Thank you in advance for any contribution.

Irets

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Registered: 2019-02-01

Posts: 143

Re: Nvidia drivers not working on steam games despite already installed.

Try blacklisting nouveau using /etc/modprobe.d/ or install nvidia-utils.

The nvidia-utils package contains a file which blacklists the nouveau module, so rebooting is necessary.

Last edited by Irets (2023-06-02 04:43:45)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: Nvidia drivers not working on steam games despite already installed.

Try blacklisting nouveau.

The nvidia-utils package already does that.

rainytuesday, you missed a step. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation