Pangaea666: Is this really the best way to go about it? I have a Nvidia 770 card, and according to that site 304.xx is the recommended driver. Which is an older version than the one I currently run (352.xx). I looked at upgrading to 367.xx (iirc), but not sure if just downloading it off Nvidia's driver page is the best way to go about it.

kusumahendra: There should be additional device driver or something like that somewhere in your start menu. Use it to install nvidia driver. It's safer that way

manero666: you can easily check what's your current driver by typing in the terminal (open it with ctrl+alt+t)
glxinfo |grep core

if it says "mesa 1*.*.*" you have the nouveau driver (open source)
if it says "nvidia 3**.**" you are using the proprietary driver

adamhm: All Linux Mint releases from 17 and later are LTS releases (17.x releases are based on Ubuntu 14.04 and will be supported until 2019 / 18.x releases are based on Ubuntu 16.04 and will be supported until 2021).

You will need to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers - open the Driver Manager and it'll tell you which driver you're currently using and which drivers are available. But before doing that I recommend adding the last post :)

Now on startup I don't see the LM logo and on the green dots loading screen it pop-up some message about amd64-edac not being supported on 32-bit distros and to use it at my own risk - I guess this was from day 1 but I just saw it now after installing nvidia drivers because they have a different order to execute xorg, or more precisely different delays? Do I have to worry about that? i installed the amd64-microcode driver too but this didn't change, btw with mesa drivers I logged in to 224 MB used memory, with them it rose to ~364 and after the microcode it and the new kernel it's 234, which is ~50% less than XP :)

Thanks for the help! +1

leon30: Now on startup I don't see the LM logo and on the green dots loading screen

adamhm: The GeForce 6/7/8/9 series part refers to some very old cards (6xxx series, 7xxx etc) from before Nvidia changed their naming convention to what it is now, that are no longer supported with newer driver releases. Anyway, the latest 367.35 driver is listed as compatible with the 770 on Nvidia's site and the driver manager will only show drivers that are compatible with your hardware so there should be no problems :)

Don't use the drivers from Nvidia's website... unless they've changed things since I last tried them they're a bit of a hassle to install.

Emachine9643: Going on vacation this monday. Thinking of switching over to Ubuntu any advice?

leon30: Thanks for the URL, its little strange, ops scratch that, saw you explanation in your last post :)

Now on startup I don't see the LM logo and on the green dots loading screen it pop-up some message about amd64-edac not being supported on 32-bit distros and to use it at my own risk - I guess this was from day 1 but I just saw it now after installing nvidia drivers because they have a different order to execute xorg, or more precisely different delays? Do I have to worry about that?

Cinn314: Well, so far today I have tried in virtualbox - Playlinux, Gamedrift Linux and Sparky Linux. Next up is Linux Mint and then I will try some games :)

adamhm: You probably won't get many games running in VirtualBox as its very limited compared to a real system, especially where graphics are concerned. Still, some less demanding games should be playable... before trying any I'd recommend installing the VirtualBox guest additions ("Devices --> Insert Guest Additions CD Image..." and then run the installer).