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Tockz 22 Dec, 2019 @ 5:57am
Steam Games and Newer NVIDIA Cards with no 32 bit NVDIA Linux Drivers
Can someone point me to something which describes the status of Steam Games under Linux with the newer NVDIA cards?

How does one tell if a game uses 32 bit or 64 bit? From what I can gather, pretty much everything I play is 32, all binaries are ELF 32-bit.

As I understand, both 32 and 64 bit NVIDIA drivers need to be loaded. But, newer cards such as the GeForce 16 Series (GTX 16xx) have only 64 bit driver support from NVIDIA.

Do Linux users stick to the GeForce 10 Series? Are there ways to work with the 64 bit drivers? Something else?
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xdshot 22 Dec, 2019 @ 11:07am 
They should have 32bit gl libraries as well. I think...
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Tockz 23 Dec, 2019 @ 6:21pm 
Thanks for the useful info. Your observation of the 32bit libraries is probably what I was looking for. In digging through the NV driver docs, there is a reference On Linux-x86_64, that file contains both the 64-bit driver binaries as well as 32-bit compatibility driver binaries So, it's off to the races.

Now the tough question: Get a 16xx or splurge on a 1060?

I run Slackware multilib. It's run fairly well with Half-Life/Portal and derivatives. At

https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:multilib

it says:

After installing the “-compat32” packages, you may have to re-install your binary Nvidia or Ati video X.Org drivers. These driver packages contain both 64bit and 32bit libraries to be maximally useful on a 64bit multilib OS. If you installed the driver files for both architectures, the “mesa-compat32” package will overwrite some of the 32bit library files.

On the other hand, if you originally only installed the 64bit driver libraries for your Nvidia/Ati card, it is recommended after installation of the multilib packages, to re-install the binary driver package. This time, choose to install the 32bit driver files as well.


Hence, my confusion.


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