Hi everyone,
I just recently upgraded from a 3060 to a 5070. My issue is that the 5070 will only run with the “open” driver. However, you cannot disable the GSP firmware with that.
Disabling GSP firmware fixed a bunch of issues, including low framerates that otherwise rendered some game titles unplayable.
I came here to search for a fix for the 5070 that I couldn’t (so far) find elsewhere. Are there any tweaks that I might have missed?
Thanks
It’s literally not possible, this was communicated a bunch by Nvidia.
Yes, that’s what I stated already in my initial post. However, I seem to have made it not clear enough. I’m looking for literally anything else (but disabling the GSP firmware) that could mitigate the situation.
I’m not sure, but you really described nothing (low frame rates in some titles) which can be caused by almost anything including vram exhaustion and misconfiguration.
In my experience (5090 on fedora with gnome and driver from rpmfusion) I could spot no issues using GSP. From what I understand the one actual thing was VR, but I haven’t used it at that point.
Was I so unclear in my initial post?
I had the 3060. I had issues with that. I disabled GSP firmware, all issues went away.
I now have the 5070. I cannot disable GSP firmware, so now all my issues are back. I can’t make them go away again, because the GSP firmware cannot be disabled on that model.
To make it a bit more concrete, this applies for instance to Fallout 3. I don’t think VRAM exhaustion really is an issue. I don’t know what you mean by misconfiguration.
Apart from that, no configuration change was involved when I simply fixed the issue by not loading the GSP firmware before. I don’t think unloading the GSP firmware would touch VRAM in any way, so why would now be VRAM exhaustion an issue?
yes, you just said “my issues went away” without clarifying what all youre trying to find a remedy to.
“Low Framerates” doesnt tell the story because by that some people mean low but consistent, some mean micro stutters, others have wildly variable fps swings, etc.
what EXACTLY is your series of issues? People cant help you with vague notions of an issue that only mean something specific to you.
yeah its really unfortunate that nvidia didn’t take longer to clean up their GSP stuff before forcing it on everyone.
I still have issues with GSP, even on 590, including being unable to wake from suspend in 90% of cases. I’ve reported this many times, it’s been reported by others many times, however this fact has not changed.
Thankfully I’m still able to disable GSP firmware on my 3070, even on 590, and continue using the driver with less issues.
Here’s to hoping the next series of drivers from Nvidia will have some useful fixes regarding this. They’ve been cooking up 595 / 600 drivers for a WHILE at this point.
I suggest you write a bug report for a specific issue (i.e. a specific game that you believe is having a performance problem), probably best to start a new thread at this point.
Be as clear as possible about what the issue is, and provide reliable repro steps. Then attach a bug report file, which will help NVIDIA review and replicate your issue. Then reference your issue in the respective driver version feedback thread. Review this post for more info: »»»»»»»»»» If you have a problem, PLEASE read this first ««««««««««
Personally, I haven’t had any issues due to GSP as far as I can tell, on Fedora Workstation 43, without doing any special configuration other than installing the driver as per the RPM Fusion instructions.
Okay, so, I it’s working for me now. Here is what I happened:
That said, I still don’t know what exactly it was that fixed it. As I had planned on using CachyOS anyway, that doesn’t bother me much though.
Cheers
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