Posted: 2/12/2013 5:49:01 PM EDT
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I'm buliding a computer to be used as a server for Minecraft. I want to use Linux 64bit but don't know anything about it. How do drivers for it work? I'm thinking about useing a MSI GTX650 video card but what do i use for a driver? They only have drivers for windows on their web site.
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Are you actually going to be using the server box to play the game?
If you're only going to be running the minecraft server daemon on the server, wouldn't generic vga drivers suffice? In other words, no need for a fancy video card. I only ask because in my experience most servers don't need high-powered graphics as the clients are doing the rendering. |
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I'm buliding a computer to be used as a server for Minecraft. I want to use Linux 64bit but don't know anything about it. How do drivers for it work? I'm thinking about useing a MSI GTX650 video card but what do i use for a driver? They only have drivers for windows on their web site. Thanks Thats an Nvidia card, and you have basically 2 choices for drivers. Nvidia releases a set of binary drivers that distros typically keep in their repository. It is closed source but generally the best performance and the only way to get all the features including full 3d acceleration out of your card. The other option is the open source "nouveau" drivers which will provide basic functionality, some 2d and maybe some 3d acceleration, but generally not all the features and not nearly as good of performance as the closed source binary drivers. Knowing what distribution of linux ( ubuntu, fedora, debian, gentoo, etc ) is required before you can find instructions on how to get a grapical desktop w/ whichever set of drivers you choose running. Personally, I've always used closed source drivers either from nvidia or ati/amd. I'm not an "open source purist" I guess. |
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Are you actually going to be using the server box to play the game? If you're only going to be running the minecraft server daemon on the server, wouldn't generic vga drivers suffice? In other words, no need for a fancy video card. I only ask because in my experience most servers don't need high-powered graphics as the clients are doing the rendering. Yes I will playing from the server computer so I need a graphics card. |
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I'm buliding a computer to be used as a server for Minecraft. I want to use Linux 64bit but don't know anything about it. How do drivers for it work? I'm thinking about useing a MSI GTX650 video card but what do i use for a driver? They only have drivers for windows on their web site. Thanks Thats an Nvidia card, and you have basically 2 choices for drivers. Nvidia releases a set of binary drivers that distros typically keep in their repository. It is closed source but generally the best performance and the only way to get all the features including full 3d acceleration out of your card. The other option is the open source "nouveau" drivers which will provide basic functionality, some 2d and maybe some 3d acceleration, but generally not all the features and not nearly as good of performance as the closed source binary drivers. Knowing what distribution of linux ( ubuntu, fedora, debian, gentoo, etc ) is required before you can find instructions on how to get a grapical desktop w/ whichever set of drivers you choose running. Personally, I've always used closed source drivers either from nvidia or ati/amd. I'm not an "open source purist" I guess. I'm planning on running ubuntu 64bit. So it sounds like I can get a driver for that card? The closed source drivers sounds like the best for me. |
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I'm planning on running ubuntu 64bit. So it sounds like I can get a driver for that card? The closed source drivers sounds like the best for me. Without a doubt. Ubuntu is the most popular distro, and Nvidia cards are the most popular. Translation ... it's a very well supported combination, you'll be fine. |
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I have no experience using anything but the basic 2d graphics in linux with the drivers built into the distribution, but nvidia has linux drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-310.32-driver.html |
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I have no experience using anything but the basic 2d graphics in linux without the drivers built into the distribution, but nvidia has linux drivers http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-310.32-driver.html Had not seen that. Thanks. |
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I'm planning on running ubuntu 64bit. So it sounds like I can get a driver for that card? The closed source drivers sounds like the best for me. Without a doubt. Ubuntu is the most popular distro, and Nvidia cards are the most popular. Translation ... it's a very well supported combination, you'll be fine. Could've sworn Mint had officially surpassed Ubuntu…maybe not. I run Mint (can't stand Unity) on all my computers except for my MacBook Pro (it's there in a virtual machine but I don't count that) and RPi's. Ubuntu based distros are certainly the most popular at the moment. I'd play around with a few distros and find one you like GUI wise. If it's Ubuntu based, all of the CLI and repo's are mostly the same (and are interchangeable). |