Hi all,

This is mostly aimed at @JTL and @Slacor as IIRC they are linux + nvidia people

Is it right that in Linux I can turn off dithering for Nvidia cards? How does one do this? and do I need to be using a certain distro?

I want to do some PC gaming again, and if I can easily turn off dithering in Linux, it might be the easiest route. The trick I learnt of simply trying all the colour settings till I find one that doesn't dither in windows is no good to me, because the monitors I use at the moment have only DVI connectors, and I seem to only get one colour option unless I use either DP or HDMI.

Of course this all has to wait till I can actually buy a video card!

This is what I see with NVIDIA X Server Settings with Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon, which is what I use primarily.

I can change it to Auto, Enabled, Disabled

    2 years later

    ryans I have been running it disabled. I'm not certain whether it has made a difference in my case.

      a month later

      I want to add that merely changing the setting is not enough. The setting will apply immediately, but it will not survive a reboot. To make it work permanently, you need to run nvidia-settings every time. It has an option that makes it run without loading its GUI:

      nvidia-settings --load-config-only

      Put this line in your deskop environment's autostart list and you're good to go.

      dev