GeForce 540M (laptop) means No Vulkan,No Proton?

[Ocelote.12]

what can it run?

[WarnerCK]

No Vulkan: probably; no Proton: not really.

Proton uses DXVK by default in later versions for translating DX9-11 to Vulkan, and their fork of VKD3D for translating DX12 to Vulkan, but Wine still has WineD3D available to translate pre-DX12 into OpenGL. You can set an environment variable as a game option to use that instead of DXVK. It's not as performant, and possibly not as complete, as DXVK, but it is an option.

Mobile 540 is going to be pretty limited in what it can run regardless, though - you're definitely looking at older and less-demanding games.

[Ari El Uno]

Older GPUs without Vulkan support will be limited to Proton version 7 and below.

[QHD_144hz_MLED_5ms]

Nvidia dropped support for such a dinosaur card a long time ago; hell, even the 600, 700, 800, and select 900 cards are discontinued as of August 2022. The only exceptions would be desktop 900 cards, as well as some 700 cards built on Maxwell instead of Kepler. But since neither XeSS nor FSR even support anything older than 900 series for Nvidia, those owners are screwed anyways.

Like I know not everyone can just afford a PC with RTX or RDNA card, but you're not gonna be able to run anything on that potato besides ancient games and maybe some indies. Even for eSports like CS2 and Fortnite, you're gonna struggle to run them even at lowered settings. There are iGPUs out there since 2016 that can run circles around your dGPU, no offence. Literally a Ryzen based Chromebook from 2020 or 2021 is gonna surpass and/or rival even flagship PCs from around a decade ago.

I know it's hard to believe it, but yes, even low end CPUs now greatly outmatch old flagships like the i7 4790K and FX 9590 while rivaling i7 7700K and R7 1800X; mid range iGPUs can surpass flagships such as GTX Titan Black and R9 295X2 (with high end iGPUs from Mac even surpassing GTX 1080 Ti and Radeon VII, not even joking). Of course for iGPUs, they greatly depend on the CPU and SDRAM, so it's not always gonna be sunshine and rainbows. Obviously, even the fastest DDR5 out there is inferior to the slowest GDDR5.

[Ocelote.12]

Originally posted by 2003 Was 20 Years Ago:

such a dinosaur card

Originally posted by 2003 Was 20 Years Ago:

but you're not gonna be able to run anything on that potato besides ancient games and maybe some indies

I know that. This laptop is not my main computer. I also have a i5-3570K/GTX1060/Win10 desktop for "big" games and a newer and smaller Intel 12th gen laptop with i5-1235U/IrisXe/Win11.

I'd like to play indie/old games from Steam on that older laptop but it had only Win7 preinstalled on it, and Steam will terminate its Win7 support in 2024 (also I'm afraid of never-to-be-patched-anymore security vulnerabilities in Win7), so I figured I could try to install Linux on that older laptop, and try to play some Indie or old games through Proton.

[tyl0413]

Originally posted by Ocelote12:

Originally posted by 2003 Was 20 Years Ago:

such a dinosaur card

Originally posted by 2003 Was 20 Years Ago:

but you're not gonna be able to run anything on that potato besides ancient games and maybe some indies

I know that. This laptop is not my main computer. I also have a i5-3570K/GTX1060/Win10 desktop for "big" games and a newer and smaller Intel 12th gen laptop with i5-1235U/IrisXe/Win11.

I'd like to play indie/old games from Steam on that older laptop but it had only Win7 preinstalled on it, and Steam will terminate its Win7 support in 2024 (also I'm afraid of never-to-be-patched-anymore security vulnerabilities in Win7), so I figured I could try to install Linux on that older laptop, and try to play some Indie or old games through Proton.

Yeah that won't really work well, disable updates for Steam and it'll work on 7 for at least a few more months.

[QHD_144hz_MLED_5ms]

Ah that's still bad for your main PC because that i5 3570K is heavily bottlenecking your GTX 1060 (I'm assuming it's the 6GB model); you should've paired it with at least i5 6600K but preferably it would've been better if you had i5 8600K

[Ocelote.12]

It's me, topic's OP, returning back after almost a year. Please don't lock the thread for necroposting.

Where is the Proton settings file "user_settings.sample.py" located? I'm using Linux Mint 22.

[A&A]

Originally posted by Ocelote.12:

It's me, topic's OP, returning back after almost a year. Please don't lock the thread for necroposting.

Where is the Proton settings file "user_settings.sample.py" located? I'm using Linux Mint 22.

steam/steam/steamapps/common/Proton

[Zyro]

Originally posted by Ocelote.12:

Where is the Proton settings file "user_settings.sample.py" located? I'm using Linux Mint 22.

I'm using the "locate" tool to answer such questions. Or "find".

[r.linder]

For old GPUs that won't work with DXVK, you're pretty much limited to Proton 5.x and older