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I had issues with the Vulkan renderer on W11 as well. DX11 works fine for me on both W11 and Fedora38. Getting around 200FPS max settings at 1440p in the groove with 6800XT and 5800x3d. Same Kernel version.
Disable all the smart stuff in the smart TV. Any smoothing settings, any kind of display settings at all. Windows was probably sending a signal saying turn these things off and enter game mode before, linux won’t so you have to turn them off. There’s probably a manual game mode you can turn on in the tvs settings to
To be clear, all the lag is from the TV. Not the os or your computer.
I would not use mint with cinnamon if you intend to game. It has some compositing issues which can cause performance problems. I personally ditched mint for Manjaro KDE, but you could give something with gnome a go, too. PopOS is popular, while for KDE, Neon seems good. My non-techy sister happily uses Vanilla OS.
Also, the open source nvidia driver is not suitable for gaming. As explained by others, it leaves much to be desired in terms of performance.
When the display is not detected, I assume it’s not even showing up in display settings? When I turn on my projector, I have to “enable” it in display setup before I get output.
Mint was my distro of choice for a while as well. Unfortunately, when I jumped back into linux for the second time after several years back on windows about a year ago, it had changed very little. In fact it had yet to resolve several bugs that I had struggled with, years before.
KDE meanwhile has been the desktop UI upgrade I always wanted. I’ve used gnome a bit as well, and it too has come a long way, I hope PopOS works out for you.
If you want, you can put Ventoy on your USB instead of making it into a boot drive for one iso at a time. Once Ventoy is installed onto a usb drive, you can just pop .iso files onto it and it will ask which one you want when you boot from it. This way you can try a dozen distros with very little hassle. AND it still works as a normal usb drive too, you can put other files onto it and Ventoy will just ignore anything that isn’t an iso.
What I mean by enable, is that I have to go to display settings, open up the projector, and check the “enabled” box to get a picture. It’s detected, but just does nothing by default. Just making sure this wasn’t what you were encountering, that the display is in fact not there at all.
Using the open source driver with Nvidia is a bad idea, your card is locked at the minimum clock speed and it's general quality is not comparable to the proprietary driver (this is purely because of Nvidia's hostility to open source, not due to any inabilities of the developers of Nouvea.)
I'm gonna assume you are using the default desktop environment of Mint which is Cinnamon. Have you tried booting a different DE, or even better, a different distribution with something like Gnome or KDE to see if the issue persists?
I would try flashing an Ubuntu (or Kubuntu for KDE) or PopOS iso and booting that to try, they both include the proprietary Nvidia driver. This might be a Cinnamon issue or a Mint issue, trying a different distro helps you narrow down the possible cause.
This is probably a pretty unpopular opinion but I would never recommend anything but Gnome or KDE to a new Linux user. Those projects just have so much more development focus on them then all the smaller ones, it just makes sense to default to them for maximum ease of use and compatibility.
Okay great - thank you so much, I will give POP!_os a whirl, that was another I considered, i will get on that this evening! I truly appreciate the help!
I’m almost just as green as you, so if anyone else comments here you should probably follow their advice over mine, but the only distro I’ve tried with no monitor/Nvidia driver headaches has been Kubuntu. the kde desktop is still very familiar to windows by default and so far everything just works for me, might be worth a shot if you can’t get it figured out with mint.
edit: just thought of another advice
try switching from Wayland to x11, or vice versa. I’ve heard they can cause wonky things like this
Your Only Move is Hustle - Basically a TAS Fighting game, the game plays like chess meets a fighter game, you preselect moves at the same time as your opponent, then they play out. Sounds super simple when explained like that but there are so many complications to this basic formula (cancels, bursts, DI, parries, to name a few), that it is actually very interesting.
Omega Strikers - Air Hockey meets MOBA, although the game is dying a little, but the devs are still active and they just released a new character, their design never disappoints and the OST is fire.
I’m one of the 5 poor sobs who still plays darkorbit, and someone on github made a linux native launcher available as an appimage. I don’t recommend playing it though, because aside from the community becoming smaller and smaller, the game also runs like ass even on a high end system (not because of the unofficial app, but because of the game itself), and it has this issue with it taking up more and more ram over time, and it has been like that for over a decade now. Also a lot of server issues lately. The devs don’t seem very interested in improving the game.
Same. I never got into Shadow Tactics, but DIII clicked with me straight away (and that’s in spite of having mix feelings about Westerns). Hopefully someone also picks up this type of game, as it’s quite a specific niche.
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