New nvidia driver 343.13 removes support for older GPUS

Removed support for G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets based on them. Ongoing support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 340.* legacy releases through the end of 2019.

For more:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/...inux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-343-13-beta-/

 

This situation nvidia announced some time ago but nvidia have good legacy support, obiously without new things

Respect this nvidia drivers appears some changes in my test

For example farcry 2 runs more stable on both modes (single and multiplayer), Farcry 3 runs better and multiplayer mode works in this version, Mafia II its better too and others


FarCry 2


Wine 1.7.23 + Nvidia 343.13


Single Player

Multiplayer

FarCry 3


Singleplayer


Wine 1.7.23 + 340.24

Wine 1.7.23 + 343.13

 

FarCry 3

Multiplayer


Wine 1.7.23 + 343.13

Mafia II


Wine 1.7.19 + 340.17

Wine 1.7.23 + 343.13

Saint Row The Third

Wine 1.7.23 + 343.13

 

Split Second Velocity


Wine 1.7.8 + 331.20

Wine 1.7.23 + 343.13

Test Drive Unlimited 2


Wine 1.7.23 + 340.24

Wine 1.7.23 + 343.13

 

All I hope is that they don't remove support for GT 440 anytime soon I still can't spare money to buy a new video card

 

Wow, that really sucks! Now my 8800's and 9800's will no longer be updated.
I have 6 gaming computers and definitely can't afford new cards.
Hopefully this won't destroy my Linux hopes for the future...

What happens when I use the newest Mint and have an old video card?
Will "Driver Manager" find the best legacy driver, or am I stuck with open-source?

 

Wow, that really sucks! Now my 8800's and 9800's will no longer be updated.
I have 6 gaming computers and definitely can't afford new cards.
Hopefully this won't destroy my Linux hopes for the future...

What happens when I use the newest Mint and have an old video card?
Will "Driver Manager" find the best legacy driver, or am I stuck with open-source?

Doesn't mint give you like 3-4 options on which NVIDIA driver you want to choose? It did to me!

 

Yes, but I've never tried on a Legacy video card.

 

All I hope is that they don't remove support for GT 440 anytime soon I still can't spare money to buy a new video card

Your case are different because your card support OpenGL 4 (cards affected are OpenGL 3)

This support maybe stay more time because has many cards based in OpenGL 4 (Lastest Kepler and Maxwell for example)

 

Yes, but I've never tried on a Legacy video card.

Hmm, I think you are gonna be forever stuck with 340.24. However, if the open source alternatives gets better then you won't have to worry about proprietary blobs. At least for that video card model! I do hope NVIDIA helps open source drivers to maintain the old cards... that would be nice.

 

Only one way to find out huh?
Maybe I'll do a live USB and see what Mint offers on these old card...
Guess I can stay off 331 forever

 

It's not *that * bad. There are still 4 more years of X, kernel and bug support. The only things you won't get are performance updates, since you are stuck with 340 forever. I'm also sure that if your package management system does not give you legacy options, you can force them manually.


http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/343.13/README/supportedchips.html

 

Thats kinda what I figured. I've had a 7900 for a long time and Nvidia no longer updates it. The only problem I have seen is the GOG Far Cry would crash and Magicka would crash.

 

Thats kinda what I figured. I've had a 7900 for a long time and Nvidia no longer updates it. The only problem I have seen is the GOG Far Cry would crash and Magicka would crash.

In mi case with GT630 (GK208) and FarCry still crash (segmentation fault) but with 343.13 drivers FarCry 2 back to work and gain stability (before game crash after 5 min of gameplay)

However Magicka in my case works without problem

 

The GOG Far Cry right?
I noticed on any Win7 computer there are some asset gliches with a boulder model. I did some research and found that anyone with a newer video drivers will have this gliche.

 

The GOG Far Cry right?
I noticed on any Win7 computer there are some asset gliches with a boulder model. I did some research and found that anyone with a newer video drivers will have this gliche.

Both GOG and steam versions tested but mainly use steam version

 

The GOG Far Cry right?
I noticed on any Win7 computer there are some asset gliches with a boulder model. I did some research and found that anyone with a newer video drivers will have this gliche.

Hi in this moments stay compiling wine 1.7.24 and see log changes maybe this be usefull in your case

26887 Magicka crashes a few seconds after title screen

 

Oh, I meant in Windows. I was able to get Magicka running in Wine, but its been a long time since I've tested it.