Re: GTX 750 TI will able to play Borderlands 2
Installing a driver directly from nvidia website for Linux in the past (which might require manually installing dkms package and making sure that you have kernel headers) has been somewhat troublesome because that was not recognized by the system updates, so whenever you got a new kernel, you had to rerun the nvidia installer script for the drivers. And sometimes there could be inconsistencies with the X server. Not sure if that has changed in newer Ubuntu versions to automaticall update video modules for drivers installed outside of the usual package system.
By using the repositories, either a newer driver in standard repos or adding the xorg-edgers ppa to the repos, when you get a new kernel, the nvidia modules for it are upgraded for that kernel version automatically. The only potential snag with using ppa is that you need to use ppa-purge to remove the ppa from the repo list and remove those drivers (installing standard Ubuntu video drivers that work) before upgrading an existing system to newer Ubuntu version. But I normally do a fresh install for a newer version after backing up anything I want to save (I recursively copied (cp -r) my home directory to ext4 partition on external USB drive, then copied that to the new system when replacing 12.04 with fresh 14.04). Many people have a separate /home partition that they can mount after installing a new system.
i5 650 3.2 GHz upgraded to i7 870, 16 GB 1333 RAM, nvidia GTX 1060, 32" 1080p & assorted older computers
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