Nvidia proprietary driver suddenly crashes computer

I'm experiencing issues with my Nvidia videocard. I'm using proprietary driver 'coz I'm having rendering problems when using the open source driver. The proprietary driver is tested as it says in the system. And it used to work fine. I even got Nvidia sw as soon as the driver was selected. However I don't know if Ubuntu released some updates but the computer won't boot if I select the tested driver and reboot. I get just black screen and that's it.

Can anyone confirm using Nvidia videocard with proprietary driver and what release of Ubuntu you're using ? I don't mind going for alternative release.

Solution 1:

Yes, the older nvidia drivers in 20.04 crash the computer.

In 20.10 upwards and the newest drivers this problem doesn't happen (prob. why I had to upgrade.)

I don't know what Ubuntu version you are using... But the NVidia Driver 700 should work (well for Ubuntu 21.04 and NVIDIA GeForce 1660 super)

I didn't get render problems, just poor performance with the noveau driver

You might want to install the newest driver using the graphical interface (additional drivers) but it also should work by installing this packet: nvidia-driver-700

apt automatically installs dependencies. To install the packet I recommend to use apt and not apt-get because apt is just newer