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cattmilkk

7 Jan, 2016 @ 9:36am

Steam won't launch after switching to proprietary drivers.

Need some help with this one, it worked fine when I used x.org (default driver), but now after I managed to set the drivers to Nvidia binary v352 Steam went down the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ again.
My distro is Ubuntu 14.

Last edited by cattmilkk; 7 Jan, 2016 @ 9:36am

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Long Ago [Linux] has Steam for Linux

14 Jan, 2016 @ 6:03pm

I have been running Linux Steam since Jan 2013, or originally in 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 since Jan 2015. Nvidia graphics and drivers are least likely to have issues with Steam (compared with slower Intel missing some things or AMD). There was one kernel version that had a problem with Steam, but most of us just used an older kernel in that case until a newer one was released. Other than that, steam has been running great on my 6 year old PC.

What Nvidia hardware do you have? If it is too old it might not be supported by current nvidia drivers. In 12.04 I was running a GTX 550 Ti and currently a more efficient GTX 750 Ti with following drivers from graphics-drivers ppa:

efflandt@XPS-8100-1404:~$ dpkg-query -l nvidia* | grep ii ii nvidia-361 361.16-0ubuntu0~gpu14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 361.16 ii nvidia-opencl-icd-361 361.16-0ubuntu0~gpu14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD ii nvidia-prime 0.6.2 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime ii nvidia-settings 358.16-0ubuntu0~gpu14.04.1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

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