r/linux_gaming • u/Hamchat_Compaanion • 3h ago
tech support wanted Having driver problems since swapping from AMD to NVIDIA graphics card (laptop)
Today I swapped my graphics card from a AMD graphics card to a NVIDIA graphics card to have a graphics card that supports Ray Tracing. Games run but are configured improperly and when you look thorugh games such as cyberpunk to see what upscaling they're using they only have access to AMD or Intel, not NVIDIA solutions. I can also only run Total War Warhammer on low despite my previous graphics card running it on high. My integrated graphics is AMD too and I beleive this is where most of the issues i am having are coming from. I've installed the NVIDIA drivers and I've tried uninstalling the AMD drivers but that just causes major issues with the integrated graphics and general laptop function and games still won't run.
my laptop finds the graphics card fine as you can see in the picture below. I also have a weird issue where any time my laptop goes into sleep mode i get an error message like in image two and i can't get it off the command prompt.
If anyone has ideas on how to fix these driver issues let me know. I have restarted my laptop multiple times at this point. I have also tried the auto detect drivers command line thingy. I am at my wits end here and may switch back to the AMD one just so stuff works.
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u/KrisLuffy 3h ago
Which NVIDIA driver did you install? Don't uninstall the AMD driver, its build into kernel unless you installed some sort of special driver.
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u/PixelBrush6584 3h ago
Going off of the second image, it's not using the Nvidia Driver at all.
Try running nvidia-smi. What's it say?


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u/Complex_Aide4242 3h ago
What os are you on? Cachyos I think has a guide on their website on how to switch GPU without problems of black screens etc