How should I install nvidia drivers correctly to play steam games?

[nicknick]

Hello friends.

I am learning to use EOS/Arch but I am new to Linux and know very little.

How should I install the nvidia drivers correctly to play Steam games?

Should I use the Proprietary driver, or the Nouveau driver?

My pc is an i-5 3470, nvidia gtx 1050 ti, 8gb ram, gigabite motherboard.

I have read the official guide:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

I know my 1050 ti has the code NV137 (GP107).

And my code doesn’t show up in Legacy Drivers, so I know it’s still supported.

On the Wiki it says that if my GPU is later than Maxwell (and it is, right?), I should install the nvidia, nvidia-lts or nvidia-dkms package depending on my kernel type.

My EndeavourOS is the official one, I don’t know what kernel I have.

But, then I have another question, a friend from our forum told me to install nvidia-inst, it helped to fix some problems.

What does that command do, install other nvidia drivers? I’m confused.

Also, after installing the nvidia drivers, I know I need to do this to install Steam:

yay -S nvidia-utils
yay -S lib32-nvidia-utils
yay -S steam

But I would like to know how I should install the nvidia drivers correctly.

Thanks in advance and sorry for so much text!

[chikenf00t]

You should have the right drivers already installed from looking at the other thread. What happens when you run yay steam? Does it not download properly for you? Also, I use the flatpak version but that’s completely up to personal preference. The aur version never seemed to work quite right for me

[Cphusion]

If you booted off of the latest EndeavourOS iso and selected to boot with the Nvidia option you should already have them installed. Just open a terminal, run the following command and you should get a bunch of packages as output.
pacman -Qs nvidia

nvidia-inst should be installed which was used to install the other Nvidia packages.
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/nvidia/new-nvidia-driver-installer-nvidia-inst/2022/03

[nicknick]

Oh yes, Steam is working properly, I can play some games but CSGO is not working.

I did not find the nvidia-inst command on the official Nvidia Arch link, so I wondered if I had done it correctly.

I understand, nvidia-inst installs the latest proprietary nvidia driver, and with that you should be able to play everything correctly, thanks friend!

[nicknick]

I installed EndeavourOS the standard way you see on youtube video tutorials, I mean, I don’t remember seeing that option in the installer. I remember selecting the first option in all the GRUB options.

Oh I see, so nvidia-inst is the correct command, is it some kind of wizard like yay to pacman, or something? I didn’t see that command on the official Nvidia Arch link, so I wasn’t sure if I installed it correctly.

It seems that this installs the latest Nvidia proprietary drivers, so I don’t think it should install anything else.

Thanks again mate, that’s what I wanted to know!

[mylinux@mylinux ~]$ pacman -Qs nvidia
local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.12-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 535.54.03-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 535.54.03-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia-dkms 535.54.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers - module sources
local/nvidia-hook 1.3-1
    pacman hook for nvidia
local/nvidia-inst 23-6
    Script to setup nvidia drivers (dkms version) in EndeavourOS
local/nvidia-installer-common 23-6
    Common scripts for nvidia-installer-dkms and nvidia-inst
local/nvidia-settings 535.54.03-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 535.54.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities