[Guide] Getting GTX 900 / 10 series cards gaming (for now)

Getting GTX 900 / 10 series cards gaming (for now)

Until driver autodetect handles pre-Turing NVIDIA cards, they fall back to software rendering and games crawl. Here is the manual fix that gets real frames on Maxwell/Pascal today.

Why it happens: autodetect installs the NVIDIA open modules, which only support Turing (GTX 16 / RTX 20) and newer. Pascal and Maxwell need the legacy 580 branch instead. Background: Supported hardware.

Steps:

1. Open a terminal.
2. Install the legacy driver: sudo pacman -S nvidia-580xx-dkms (it is in chaotic-aur, which GlouOS ships).
3. Reboot.
4. Check it took: nvidia-smi and vulkaninfo | grep deviceName.

That is it, you should be back to full performance. When the official autodetect fix lands you will not need this anymore.

nicee thanks for this

can confirm this worked on my 1070, full frames back. ty for writing it up