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Vinischer Aug 16, 2017 @ 9:51pm
Games don't work with geforce 940mx [solved]
Hi friends, I bought a new dell i7 7th generation notebook, with 940mx geforce video card, ubuntu 16.04. For some reason, the all games starts with credits but stops at the time the menu would appear. These games work well before in my old notebook. Can anybody help me?
Last edited by Vinischer; Aug 17, 2017 @ 6:56am
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Cat on Linux Aug 16, 2017 @ 10:04pm 
have you installed latest drivers for your videocard?
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thetargos Aug 16, 2017 @ 10:25pm 
Being it an nVidia card, just install the proprietary drivers from the supplied other drivers app in Ubuntu.
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Vinischer Aug 16, 2017 @ 11:17pm 
Originally posted by djoxyk:
have you installed latest drivers for your videocard?

Thanks for replying, yes I already updated the video card. It still did not work.
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Vinischer Aug 16, 2017 @ 11:18pm 
Originally posted by thetargos:
Being it an nVidia card, just install the proprietary drivers from the supplied other drivers app in Ubuntu.

Thanks for replying, how do I do this?
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Cat on Linux Aug 16, 2017 @ 11:29pm 
check if your onboard video card is disabled in BIOS. I suppose you can have some Intel chip onboard? disable it if it's enabled.
then load ubuntu and try the easiest way - install nvidia driver from ubuntu repos.
see if it works. if not, google for "ubuntu nvidia-detect" and how to install proprietary Nvidia driver for your video card model.

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x_wing Aug 17, 2017 @ 5:17am 
Originally posted by djoxyk:
check if your onboard video card is disabled in BIOS. I suppose you can have some Intel chip onboard? disable it if it's enabled.
then load ubuntu and try the easiest way - install nvidia driver from ubuntu repos.
see if it works. if not, google for "ubuntu nvidia-detect" and how to install proprietary Nvidia driver for your video card model.

Well, being a notebook that's not the way. AFAIK, all the steps are here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME#PRIME_GPU_offloading

I has test this in intel-AMD gpu notebook and worked flawslessly.
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Vinischer Aug 17, 2017 @ 6:56am 
Friends, thank you for your help, Actually my video card was disabled, being the default intel card. I managed to solve the problem with this tutorial, again thank you very much.

https://www.linuxbabe.com/desktop-linux/switch-intel-nvidia-graphics-card-ubuntu
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