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Pillgar

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[SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

I'm picking up a 1070ti tomorrow and had a question about the install.

I'm currently using a 970 with Nvidia 396.24.  Should i uninstall the drivers before swapping out the cards?   The new card is supported by the installed drivers.  Basically, is there anything special I should do before swapping the cards, if I'm still going to be using the same drivers?

Last edited by Pillgar (2018-06-30 09:24:59)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

No just swap the cards and start up, unless you generated some static config that might have some explicit identifiers used, then you might get an error starting X, if you do what's recommended and let xorg autoconfig handle everything nothing will change from the POV of the system other than that there's a new card.

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Askannz

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

I don't think you need to do anything special since both cards use the same driver. Maybe delete the Steam shader cache if you have one (~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/), although I doubt that would cause issues.
Make sure that the new card is plugged in the same PCI slot, though.

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

Which slot it is in shouldn't matter unless you eg. used nvidia-xconfig, which will hard-code it in the config.

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Pillgar

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

I actually did generate an xorg.conf with nvidia-xconfig so my forcepipeline would persist on boot, but it'll be populating the same PCI slot as the old card.  I was actually thinking about that today.  I might rm the xorg file before I swap the cards.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

Troubleshooting#Avoid_screen_tearing documents a config snippet for that.

Pillgar

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

Sorry to pick your brains, but I have two more questions.

Why does the wiki suggest move /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf.

and why does it suggest to "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" "off" and "TripleBuffer" "on" if ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On is being used?

I did neither with no issue's.

Pillgar

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

Got the card installed with no issue's.  well..... I lost my efi bootloader id when I reset the bios, was having some display port issue's...  TY for the advice guys!!!!!!

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

Sorry to pick your brains, but I have two more questions.

Why does the wiki suggest move /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf.

It makes no sense to me as it is still a full xorg.conf

and why does it suggest to "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" "off" and "TripleBuffer" "on" if ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On is being used?

Sorry no idea.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrading video card. Need advice!

Please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.

As for your other questions, that's just something the author seems to have added, in general for configurations like these it's always best to form your own conclusions on what the proper course of action should be.