Need held with nvidia drivers

[Dranaël]

Hi !

tldr : I don’t clearly understand what the cpu/gpu/nvidia thing is, and while tinkering to get proton to work, I used without being absolutely sure of what it meant

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-418

Now, when starting steam, the following message is displayed

steam.sh[5363]: Running Steam on linuxmint 21.1 64-bit
steam.sh[5363]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[5583]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[5363]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

but nothing happens.

Is there a way to go back to when it worked ?

Details :
The game I wanted to play is against the storm, rated platinum on ProtonDB. Upon launching it "applied the vulkan shaders" then closed, and after that launching again would make it close immediately, both with experimental proton and the latest stable version.

To address the problem, I found https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements and did as in the example in the nvidia paragraph (code above). It asked for a password for secure rebooting (which I provided) and I rebooted (during the reboot, a special popup appeared, but I selected `reboot` and was not prompted the password I created).

After that the computer seemed to act normally (only differeneces : intel nvidia application (I can apparently only use it to switch between "NVIDIA on demand", "power-saving mode" and "performance mode")). The other difference is that steam does not open. How can I go back (or forward to a point where it works) ? I read that Nvidia can blacklist nouveau (which appeared in my inxi before, but now doesn’t anymore) and I don’t want to risk my computer by just uninstalling nvidia-driver.

Thanks for your time and your explanations, and sorry for not knowing a lot of the technical details

Edit : relevant info :
System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera
base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce MX150] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A
bus-ID: 02:00.0
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD IR UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-5:2
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5 direct render: Yes

[Dranaël]

I have rebooted my computer, and now steams open correctly. However the proton launcher still doesn’t work, the problem might come from Vulkan. Do you know how to install it (`apt install vulkan` does not work, because my computer is `unable to locate package vulkan` ) ?

[WarnerCK]

418 is a really old driver branch (about 4 years old). The current branch is 525. Newer drivers have features that are useful and 510 in particular is the minimum required for Proton Experimental.

You'll want to purge the old driver before you install the new driver, since the presence of the old driver can interfere with the installation of the new one.

You'll also want to make sure that the 32-bit (i386) driver libraries are installed.

[THE DEATH]

Just use Manjaro Linux and install it with nvidia drivers(you will have this option just when boot Manjaro) and all will be set for you. When Manjaro is installed, you will have lastest Nvidia drivers installed already for you'r card. Then install steam client.
Also you tyring install an 418 series old driver.
GeForce MX150 have 530.41.03 driver version, witch is the lastest driver for all new Nvidia GPU's. So you are lucky that you'r GPU is spuported by lastest driver.

[moto_sapien]

I just downloaded the "Against the Storm Demo" and it's running fine.

I'm on Mint 21 Vanessa. GTX970 using the "nvidia-driver-525" selected in the Mint Driver Manager. There is an "nvidia-driver-530" available, but I'm not using it yet.

Under Steam->Settings->Steam Play .. the drop-down box is set to "Proton 8.0-2".

From what I recall the 525 driver does make the correct version of Vulkan available to Proton 8.0