Hi guys, since TumbleweedOS has been my altime favorite distro these past 6 months or so. Installed it on all of my computers, incl laptops. I just got the newest edition also with kde plasma 6.6 which started out great. But I just baught a used desktop pc, whis is only soon to be 3 years old, with a ryzen 5 4500 cpu and a Nvidia RTX 3050 8GB. I had a few troubles with my 250hz monitor at first when I booted tumbleweed on it from Windows, which was probably the first signs I should had noticed. After a reinstall, and doing things as a usually do. Starting with drivers. I installed the nvidia G07 package (for 1650 and above gpus). Suddenly games like doom (the remakes) and blizzard launcher etc. Just bearly runs. It's like my pc forces everything to run off the motherboard or the ryzen processor instead of using my GPU. Doom forinstance, loads up in a horrible resolution, and when I am in the menu, I can't navigate around because of the lagency and horrible resolution. It really sucks to have this experience with openSUSE, because I really like the distro and I sound honestly hate to boot something else.
Worth noting. I installed a HDD 3tb from my older pc to the new one, which had all the games already installed (also tumbleweedOS ext4) what I am thinking is, maybe the problem is, that the games were preinstalled on the storage drive on a pc with different specs (intel cpu gtx 1060,etc) and the system just can't figure out migrating to the new hardware? Seems like a long shot though. I am no computer genius, so I am just reaching here.
I tried doing all the same stuff (upgrading to newest updates, kde plasma 6.6 etc) on my old gaming laptop with geforce 1050ti. And everything just runs flawlessly. The laptop it self has got a little janky over the years, but It is also very old. But games and software in general just runs off the bat. Even battlenet.
Why do you think I have these issues? I must also say, that it is the first time I try a AMD cpu with Nvidia RTX gpu. I have no idea about if this Setup, could be causing problems. I certainly hope not.
Kind regards.
The program 'nvidia-smi' can be found in following packages:
Try installing with: sudo zypper install <selected_package>
Install the correct "nvidia-compute-utils" package, and then try again. We need to know whether the gpu driver is properly installed, and
nvidia-smiis the way to do thatApparently I was locked in some limbo where the drivers where correctly installed but not used. After I forced tumbleweedOS to use the correct driver. Everything worked!
Great! I assume that the issue was blacklisting the nouveau driver then. Glad to hear everything worked out, after initial setup I find Tumbleweed to be the most reliable experience with NVIDIA drivers.
Please note if you are new to Tumbleweed that you should always update with
zypper dup, nothing else. This also means you should disable automatic updates in gnome (via packagekit) or KDE, as Tumbelweed is most reliable if the entire system "rolls" forward together to the next OS release. Not sure why they aren't configured to be disabled by default, but that's the way it is...Wow, didn't know this. So, whenever kde plasma asks for updates, I should ignore it, and do it through terminal instead? (With zypper dup)
That is correct! Here are some helpful articles
Also with Tumbleweed there is always the chance of hiccups when upgrading, given that it is bleeding edge. Make sure you know how to use Snapper, and its good to check the openSUSE Matrix channel and forums before upgrading just in case there are any issues; often issues are resolved quickly, so if you see folks discussing an issue just don't update, and wait until the next safe snapshot is released!