I've inherited a laptop running Intel and a Nvidia MX150 (2gb)

My experience so far is terrible. I've got GTAV installed and set to use the card and the performance is a stuttering, input lag, tearing mess.

Most of my research points to a lack of Vulkan support on the card.

Would this perform better on Windows? 😓

I wanted to use this machine specifically to run GTAV.

The Intel gfx, under Debian, are capable of running Stray on minimum, with zero issues.

But GTAV, even on minimum, is still stuttering. Like 6fps.

And No Man's Sky, on Nvidia, is even worse than GTAV. On Intel, it's almost as bad.

I'm pretty bummed… Is this card only usable in Windows? Or is it just a bad card (not broken)?

  • dark_stang@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There were apparently 2 different MX150 chips with very different power consumption (10w vs 25w), core clocks (937mhz vs 1468mhz), and memory bandwidth (40GB/s vs 48GB/s). I don't think either of these are going to play GTA5 well, but the 10w part is probably much worse. Can you confirm which one you've got?

    • Benjamin@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I dunno…

      But I switched to proton 6.x and dx10 and now it's running, even if it crashes trying to change the settings.

      Now I've got to figure out installing mods for single player… Using flatpak…