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stinkyfax

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Registered: 2014-09-06

Posts: 8

Steam with NVIDIA beta drivers (343.13)

I am using Nvidia GTX 750 Ti, as a result the stable NVIDIA drivers from Arch repository do not work for me.

The nvidia-beta from AUR (343) works great for me, I can definitely notice hardware acceleration playing movies, and in browser.

Though my problem is getting Steam to work, as it is 32 bit I switched to nvidia-full-beta package, and enabled lib32 variable in PKGBUILD to have 32bit compiled as well (Steam needs 32 bit)
After installing steam did not complain on missing dependencies, but on Launch I get the "OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems." error described here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/st … ashes_Xorg

On wiki they advice to install drivers from Arch repositories, but as I mentioned I need the beta drivers.
Also, they suggest to run "glxinfo32 | grep OpenGL" test to see if drivers for OpenGL are installed, the output I get is:

$ glxinfo32 | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 343.13
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 343.13
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

I suspect it actually means OpenGL is installed,  I also removed the Steam Runtime libraries as it was suggested here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/st … ime_issues

Can anyone give me tips in which direction should I dig to get nvidia-beta work with Steam?

Thank you very much.

stinkyfax

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Registered: 2014-09-06

Posts: 8

Re: Steam with NVIDIA beta drivers (343.13)

Just in case it was a bogus warning, I downloaded CS:GO and tried to launch:

Could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glColorMaskIndexedEXT'! Either your video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated.

Last edited by stinkyfax (2014-10-09 19:14:20)

stinkyfax

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Registered: 2014-09-06

Posts: 8

Re: Steam with NVIDIA beta drivers (343.13)

That is embarrassing, rebooting fixed the problem... Thank you for your time

Last edited by stinkyfax (2014-10-09 19:23:46)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Steam with NVIDIA beta drivers (343.13)

Side info, the nvidia stable drivers in the repo are newer than what you installed (don't get mislead by the testing repo, they are in extra since a while)

Last edited by V1del (2014-10-10 15:23:12)