Basic question: why are NVIDIA open drivers unable to run games? Is it unable to run complex commands too?

  • angarabebesi
    9·
    3 years ago

    From what I understand Nvidia requires drivers to be cryptographically signed to do anything non-trivial. This is pure evil.

    • jokeyrhyme
      7·
      3 years ago

      UEFI Secure Boot ended up being a pretty good example of how to do cryptographic requirements well: require signatures, but allow the owner of the hardware to use their own keys

  • sasalzig
    7·
    3 years ago

    Afaik the free drivers can’t control the clocks so the the card runs at low clock the whole time and is really slow. Not sure about features but I think it runs most games fine in terms of that.

    • obbeelOP
      21·
      3 years ago

      Games go black screen if you try running them with open drivers. This could be hard coded.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P
    5·
    3 years ago

    They can run everything the API implements (which is pretty much everything), they just can’t use all of the hardware in the graphics card so you have a performance hit