Lutris issues, unable to install Epic Games - Nvidia driver updates [Solved]

[argonaut459]

Good afternoon,
as i'm currently having a bit of difficulties on getting epic games run in lutris. I found that the just a few days ago installed nvidia driver via the MX nvidia driver install program did NOT suggest the current driver.
I have to admit, I'm not 100% I picked the right one on the Nvidia homepage, so please check for yourself.

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Neueste  = 525.147.05
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] [10de:13c2] (rev a1)

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1)
Ihre Karte wird unterstützt durch die nvidia 390 drivers series. nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver
Ihre Karte wird unterstützt durch die nvidia tesla 470 drivers series. nvidia-tesla-470-driver
Ihre Karte wird unterstützt durch die nvidia 525.147.05 drivers series. nvidia-driver

Homepage states:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverR ... 826/en-us/

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Linux X64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver
 
Version:	550.54.14
Release Date:	2024.2.23
Operating System:	Linux 64-bit
Language:	English (US)
File Size:	292.65 MB

A suggest on the lutris forum is:

And check lutris git → install drivers in the Wiki to make sure you have the 32 bit drivers installed/ Look up what packages you need to install for vulkaninfo and fluidsynth and install these.

https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/mas ... Drivers.md
sadly it doesn't say anything particular about debian, as far as I know we MXer should not mess with PPAs

Long story short, is there a reason for the 525 - 550 discrepancy that I'm as a noob are not aware of? Or may it be ok to update to the 550 driver version?
Thank you in advance.

QSI:

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Snapshot created on: 20240215_1220
System:
  Kernel: 6.7.8-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.7-12~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.7.8-1-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash resume=UUID=<filter> resume_offset=6348800
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel, plank wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.2_x64 Libretto February 15  2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: Z97A GAMING 6 (MS-7917) v: 2.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: 10.2 date: 08/11/2015
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-4690K bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell gen: core 4 level: v3
    note: check built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6 model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3
    microcode: 0x28
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB
    L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3500 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 3500 2: 3500 3: 3500 4: 3500 bogomips: 27996
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB
    filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia v: 525.147.05
    non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx process: TSMC 28nm
    built: 2014-19 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:13c2 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.00x11.26") s-diag: 583mm (22.95")
  Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92 size: 531x298mm (20.91x11.73")
    diag: 609mm (23.97") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.147.05 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 9 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8ca0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbb
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.7.8-1-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: alx
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e091
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 74.34 GiB (2.7%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB block-size:
    physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 033 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA200 size: 1.82 TiB block-size:
    physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: ABB0
    scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 65.19 GiB size: 63.61 GiB (97.58%) used: 48.32 GiB (76.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 866.07 GiB size: 851.4 GiB (98.31%) used: 26.02 GiB (3.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 37.29 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
  ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 256 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 62 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 3%
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2329 libs: 1258 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:
  Processes: 293 Uptime: 3h 17m wakeups: 2 Memory: 31.3 GiB used: 2.16 GiB (6.9%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

[dolphin_oracle]

525 is the latest in our repo. our tool only offers drives that are in our repo.

there is a -N switch you can use to pull from the nvidia developer repo. FMMV. YMMV

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sudo ddm-mx -i nvidia -N

[argonaut459]

I'll ask if its really necessary in the lutris forum.

don't know what fmmv means, I doubt you meant any of these

[dolphin_oracle]

I'll ask if its really necessary in the lutris forum.

don't know what fmmv means, I doubt you meant any of these

LOL I mean YMMV (your mileage my vary)
sorry

[siamhie]

I'll ask if its really necessary in the lutris forum.

don't know what fmmv means, I doubt you meant any of these

LOL I mean YMMV (your mileage my vary)
sorry

Oh thank G*d. I myself searched that acronym this morning and came across these two possibilities.

Finger Millet Mosaic Virus
Friends of Mosquitoes and Miscellaneous Vermin

Neither seemed very Linux friendly.

[Stevo]

Inserting obligatory reference to "Don't Break Debian" (or MX) here: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

Section 1.2 about installing directly from GPU Mfr files.

[argonaut459]

Yeah, I really don't like the things this guy on the lutris forum wants - or more likely what strangely enough- lutris is expecting.
I made a timeshift save before the changes, hopefully it works out in the end.

check this out:
https://forums.lutris.net/t/epic-and-ub ... rgonaut459

Did the command you stated. System said nvidia-driver-550 can’t be found.
I left that part out and did it anyway.
as anticipated, they were already the newest, but are assigned manually now.

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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt update && sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550 libvulkan1 libvulkan1:i386

libvulkan1 ist schon die neueste Version (1.3.250.0-1~mx23ahs).
libvulkan1 wurde als manuell installiert festgelegt.
libvulkan1:i386 ist schon die neueste Version (1.3.250.0-1~mx23ahs).
libvulkan1:i386 wurde als manuell installiert festgelegt.

selected the system winetricks
in the drop-down menu, wine-ge-8-26 was already selected. Nothing really else - except a Debian 8 - could be selected.
Vulkan ICD was already set to my GTX970

the linked command:

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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y wine64 wine32 libasound2-plugins:i386 libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386

that did a few things I don’t like. see here:

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Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
  ffmpeg libavcodec59 libavcodec60 libavdevice60 libavfilter9 libavformat59 libavformat60
  libchromaprint1 libswresample4 vlc vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-video-output

Why the heck remove my ffmpeg and vlc ?? That’s something I can’t tolerate.
I’m really really baffled why lutris is making such a ruccus.
On a laptop (albeit with AMD CPU iGPU) it worked right out of the box.
On this machine with the last iteration of MX21 it was no issue adding EPIC games.

This is all getting a bit out of hand, however I sadly don’t know where the actual issue is right now.

Fingers crossed that it is working now - sadly it’ll take a bit till I can try it

[argonaut459]

Changed the subject of the thread. Might be an idea to move it to generic help, please.

[argonaut459]

alright,
as this whole ordeal messed up - ie deleted strawberry, vlc and ffmpeg and probably more.
Is it save to assume, that if I plug in a live usb, install and say preserve home it brings back the system to default, but kepps my vivaldi and few other personal stuff settings intact?

[dolphin_oracle]

Yes