I’ve been thinking about switching to Linux for a while, but there are some things that make me want to stay on Windows. For example, Gaming and installation of graphics card and software availability.

My G-Card was GT 730 2 GB ddr5.

Can I be able to play the games that Windows supported without losing frames?

  • Square Singer
    26•11 months ago

    This card requires legacy drivers. Getting this to work is going to be a pain and a half in the rear. I’ve done it before.

    Basically, what you need to do is this:

    • During OS installation it will install the modern GPU driver, which will not work with that GPU
    • Once installed, boot the PC. You will very briefly see an error message during boot that the GPU isn’t supported by the driver.
    • Now you first need to unload the current driver kernel module.
    • Then unstall the current driver package in your package manager.
    • Install the 470 legacy driver from the package manager
    • Load the legacy kernel module
    • Reboot and hope it all works.

    Google how to do each of these steps, since they are a bit too complicated to get into it here, also they are dependant on the Linux distro you chose.

    Btw: you will be losing frames. Support for legacy Nvidia GPUs isn’t great at all.

      • @Cpo@lemm.ee
        7•11 months ago

        Buying a modern cheap low end card might give you the same or better framerate thatn this legacy card.

        And steer away from Nvidia.

      • Square Singer
        5•11 months ago

        Btw, apparently there are multiple types of 730. Some are supported by the 470 driver, some not. If yours is not, try the 390 driver.