Hey I tried linux on my computer and loved it im running ubuntu-gnome3 and everytime i start up a game it crashes within 5 or 10 minutes.
I have a bog standard HP Envy desktop with i7 - 4770 a GTX-660 (1.5GB), 16 GB ram and 1 Tb hard drive the motherboard is unknow to me but i can find out if you need it.
Please help if you can :)
This also happened when i ran windows which led me to to completely switch to linux erasing all microsoft windows don't know if it is a problem with the actual graphics card.
What games, what situations. Not enough information. Any logs?
It seems that mincraft runs fine but all steam games don't
and its every time without fail
What is your power supply and your motherboard? also what kinds of games in your steam library
, are they as demanding as Farcry and crisis or are they like Quake,
Depends on what happens when the games crash;
Are you seeing digital/compression artifacts before the games crash?
Do the games hard-exit, causing lockups etc?
Check your kernel logs.
support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c03824427
thats the complete specs of the computer and nothing is changed
what am i looking for on the logs as im not in the know
the games crash the music repeats and the system shuts down or i have to force shut down
also yeh the screen like distorts then blacks out or blue screens
Are you running the Nvidia proprietary drivers?
no im not using the proprietary drivers
i have a gtx 660 1.5 gb and im now using driver nvidia binary driver version 346.59 (proprietary
i just swapped over to it
i now have the system logs from the time i played the games and it crashing there is alot cause its like 10 mins