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I have three Desktops with an nvidia card that haven't had a problem. On Ubuntu DKMS recompiles the nvidia blob loader whenever the kernel is updated.

What operating system are you on? Did you install the proprietary drivers by hand?

Given what you've said, my guess is that you're on the proprietary driver but it isn't being recompiled properly.

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desktop is a different story. the issue happens when you have both intel and nvidia gpus.

see for example:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/790089/linux/nvidia...

http://askubuntu.com/questions/372686/after-installing-nvidi...

On Ubuntu this problem is caused by the gpu-manager that keeps on rewriting xorg.conf incorrectly for the Optimus NVIDIA / Intel setup.

I analyse the problem and present a hacky work-around in this post: http://vxlabs.com/2015/02/05/solving-the-ubuntu-14-04-nvidia...

Thank you so much! has this issue been filed to ubuntu? I will do it if it hasn't.

I previously had this issue, however it has since gone away. But it's possible I just switched back the the (shitty for games) nouveau driver, it's been a while and I can't remember now.

I'm pretty content to just play 100% of games in windows, given that it's about 15 second reboot time with an SSD & windows 8--but I'll be very happy if we ever get full linux support on all games.

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