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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/Ok-Seaworthiness-356 on 2023-08-07 16:38:26+00:00.

I was thinking of switching from Windows 10 to Linux for some time now, until a small incident happened. I accidentally wiped my entire main drive, now this has forced my hand to just commit to the switch sooner. (Don’t worry about my drive being wiped have all the important stuff backed up).

Now after switching to Ubuntu (I figured it would be easiest) and installing Steam and the one and only game that matters: Team Fortress 2 i was left relatively disappointed. My frame rate dropped from a stable 260 - 300 fps on windows to below 60 on ubuntu.

After talking to some friends who are already running tf2 on linux just fine they recommended me to make sure I installed the proprietary nvidia driver (specifically the 535 one). After I installed it everything seemed to be fine even some other things that annoyed me previously got fixed aswell (for example streaming on discord would just give out a black screen after the driver change it works as expected).

The only Problem? TF2 doesn’t even let me load into a match anymore. Everytime I try to join a casual game or host my own server it just gives me the Error “Out of memory or address space. Texture quality setting may be too high.”. I’m already running the game at the lowest graphics possible.

I’m out of my own ideas but I would really try to give Linux a chance. So please every bit of advice helps.

PS: The text on the main menu is also extremely blurry but that might just be the low graphic settings