580 driver dropped support for my graphics card and blocked it from running.
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Which distribution? Maybe its an issue with the packaging. 580 is the last version that supports the older 10xx cards and there were some packaging changes in Archlinux. Now your card is newer than that and should not be affected. But maybe your distribution made some changes to packaging that caused the issue?
It's Gentoo. That could be possible, maybe something to do with the open vs non-open variant. I will look into it.
I play Helldivers 2 on my PC with 1660super and it works fine. I use Bazzite.
This is the way. Just recently I used Bazzite’s rollback/rebase feature to debug what turned out to be monitor firmware bug in Gsync triggered in very specific circumstances and not Nvidia drivers’ update. Shit’s lit.🔥
I recently upgraded from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22.2 and my login screen STILL shows the Wayland (Cinnamon) display manager as "experimental." Wayland runs a lot smoother on 22.2 and it's a lot less crash-ey, but I don't think it's ready for prime time, yet. (Your own mileage may vary.)
Ubuntu 25.10 + Wayland + Gnome 49 + Nvidia driver v580.95 (RTX 3070 Ti) works flawlessly for both gaming and normal apps.
Hey OP, can you try running a nested gamescope session to see if that fixes the issue? I usually always do this as a rule of thumb for all full screen applications due to the many QoL features like real Vsync.
Actually, can you even do that on Wayland yet, or is that Xorg-only?
Tbh I don't know what gamescope is, but I'll look into that and try it out to see. Thanks!
Gamescope is developed by Valve and used in Steam Deck. But you can install it on any system. You can think of it as a commandline application, to run games with. It can fix issues you or give some options and should make games run better if they are problematic otherwise.
Gamescope works on Wayland too nowadays.
Oh cool I didn't know that
Any particular reason you're not on/tested the v590-branch? Of course it might be borked compared to 570, but might be worth a shot?
I thought about trying it out, didn't get to it yet. I will now. Thanks!
If you're using a custom WM, your experience is going to vary WRT to Steam/Proton being able to run properly.
What do you mean "custom WM"?
I wouldn't call sway a custom WM, it uses wlroots which has become a standard.
Though I agree that wlroots seem to vary significantly in results with gnome and KDE based Wayland.
I've used Sway on arch, fedora and now nixOS, gaming / (AMD) GPU was never a problem. This seems an NVIDIA issue to me.