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I have an old office PC that I threw a GPU into to use as a cloud gaming tower. The card is an Nvidia GeForce 635 which is still supported by the legacy 470 drivers. I have installed the drivers on mint and verified that it works with mpv and a few games. No problems with the card or the driver.
I can not get video acceleration working in chromium no matter what I try. I've appended
--enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs
to chromium and verified that says I have working video acceleration and chrome://gpu says h264 is able to be decoded. The streaming service I use, GeForce NOW, streams in h264. The video is not accelerated and I get dropped frames like crazy, it's clearly not hardware acclerated and nvidia-x-server-settings confirms this, saying I have 0% video engine utilization when a video is playing in chromium. I have also tried installing the nvidia-vaapi-driver and testing out Firefox but have had no luck here either.I am tearing my hair out trying to get this to work but have reached the limit of my understanding. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thank you.
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Works perfectly fine here with RTX 3080, 565.77 drivers and vivaldi, opera, firefox. no idea about chrome/chromium though.
Well the driver version doesn't even matter as it has always been working for me but no idea about the legacy driver situation today.
TL;DR: It's always been broken.
Last edited by Hooly on 17 Dec 2024 at 9:39 pm UTC
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Yea I've crawled through more than a handful of these chromium bug threads over the past week/2 weeks about it and I'm so sick of it. I am over it and will probably scrounge ebay for an AMD GPU here around christmas cause I dont have the energy to keep up with jumping through loopholes with NVIDIA anymore. 2024 and the biggest GPU manufacturer cant be bothered to make things compatible enough for working video acceleration in any browser.