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[Solved] Terrible performance in Linux Mint compared to Windows (piefed.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I have an older computer that I use for some simple games. Its I5-7400, GTX-1050, 12GB memory, and an SSD - not new by any standards, but most of the games I'm playing are a decade old or more. I switched to Linux Mint today, since I don't want to use Windows 11, but the performance on Mint is terrible compared to Windows 10. For example, in Portal 2's native Linux version, I get like 10 fps in the title screen. War Thunder doesn't even launch. The drivers are set to Nvidia's proprietary drivers via the GUI. Am I missing something? I'd really rather not switch back to Windows.

Edit: VulkanInfo is saying, "ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0: loader_scanned_icd_add: Could not get 'vkCreateInstance' via..."

It also seems to only be showing my CPU, not gpu? Not certain, since I don't unstand a lot of the details, but it says, "deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU".

Edit 2: turning off secureboot fixed it.

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

My gut reaction is that there are a lot of ways, once you have root access, to have your changes persistent. For example, modifying/replacing binaries, adding new ones before old ones in the path, adding startup scripts, modifying config files. Kernel modules seem to be an overcomplicated way to go about it, especially since (afaik) it would need to be compiled against the specific kernel version.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    If you have security software it will check all of those against a known good default. The web of trust on boot is needed so the security software knows 100% that the kernel and its modules are trustworthy.

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