@Mandy
@sh.itjust.worksi didnt exactly stress test with a couple dozen games, the one game i tried had the same error message as before
idk man, mints driver manager do be saying nvidia is recommended
but besides that, i tried asking for an equivalent card on lemmy once, ill leave it at: im not inclined to try again
henceforth, if amd, prebuilt only
and regarding driver and kernel version, the moment i have to fiddle with either to get something working to the extent you are describing, im burning my pc
ngl, id rather stick with what is recommended before i go through hundreds of slightly differently named drivers
for linux mint, i do the suggested driver (probably not the latest)
for others like endeavouros it was always the latest nvidia driver
i dont think i ever needed the extra ram anyway since i put it in, will remove them real quick
thank you for your own detailed response
when i say didnt work, it usually means two things, it either:
didnt launch at all, no window, no nothing no error message
window does open and it shows a error message/only shows an error message
having differently sized ram sounded like something so trivial and inconsequential of a thing it didnt exactly cross my mind that it would problems to begin with
and some games do work so it isnt consistent enough of a thing to be noticed to me
im also not a computer wiz grandmaster