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having issues with Vivaldi stuttering
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The stuttering can be caused by your video card. Do you use nvidia ?
Did you try replicating these issues with another browser ? Have they been resolved or stayed the same ?
yup after posting I did a bit of reading. It was the nvidia driver. switched to the nouveau driver and problem solved. sorry still new to all this.
Are you into gaming? If not, then it is perfectly fine to run the nouveau driver.
and since I do game I take it that it's not advised?
Indeed. Nouveau simply does not have the gaming performance of Nvidia's proprietary driver.
So either use Nvidia's driver and deal with the stuttering or don't and can't game. great.
You entered the Linux Desktop scene at an awkward time, using an NVIDIA card.
Linux Mint’s packages are old. I would never recommend anyone to use Mint with an NVIDIA card. Not recently at least.
We just hit a compatibility point ( this week ) with the NVIDIA drivers and popular DE’s like KDE Plasma and GNOME which provides an excellent Wayland experience. Distro’s like CachyOS and Nobara Linux are probably one of the only ones taking advantage of this so far. Besides those of us who roll their own.
I have to admit, a proprietary web browser hardly seems like a reason to stress out. If the browser is a deal breaker, is it specific to Mint and whatever version of the driver you had installed?
it was the nvidia 535 driver. I switched to nouveau and that solved the stuttering/lag. but made gaming suck. so then I tried installing 550 drivers and that just outright bricked my system, recovered and went back to the 535. works for gaming so I'll just tolerate the stuttering I guess.
Well it didn’t “brick” your system. You probably simply got a black screen because the method of installing the latest driver failed. Mint is the wrong distro for gaming on NVIDIA for now.
I highly recommend Nobara for fedora based or CachyOS for Arch based ( gnome or KDE Plasma). They take special care on things like GFX drivers and auto setup things that might be missed. Also both of those DE’s leverage the latest NVIDIA drivers taking advantage of the latest fixes.
555.58 is the most recent NVIDIA driver.
Again, an awkward time.
I think you meant to answer OP.