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That sucks. My GPU is only a couple years old though, it's an RTX3070, and I tried using both open and closed source drivers to no avail. The one driver I finally found that worked, for whatever reason, was the v555 (still several versions back from current) server-version closed driver, but I still couldn't play games.
I moved to Linux on my gaming rid (this last time around, as I've had it as dual boot on and off since the 90s, but this time I moved to it for good after confirming that gaming works way better in it than ever before) when I had a GTX1050 Ti, and I had no problems ^1^
Updated it to an RTX3050 and still no problems ^2^
Then again I went with Pop!OS because it's a gaming oriented distro with a version that already comes with NVIDIA drivers so they sort out whatever needs sorting out on that front, plus I'm sticking with X and staying the hell away from Wayland on NVIDIA hardware since there are a lot more problems for NVIDIA hardware with Wayland than X.
Currently on driver 565.77
I reckon a lot of people with NVIDIA driver problems in Linux are trying to run it with Wayland rather than X or going for the Open Source drivers rather than the binary ones.
^1^ Actually I do have a single problem: when graphics mode starts, often all I get is a black screen and I have to switch my monitor OFF and back ON again to solve it. I guess it's something to do with the HDMI side of things.
^2^ I have exactly the same problem with the new graphics board.
That wasn't my experience at all with 22.04 LTS. It did have an nvidia driver already installed, but as previously mentioned It was old and I had to try probably 15 different drivers (each, again, requiring a hard system lock, reboot, and tinkering to attempt to use). I wasn't running Wayland, when the choice came up I went and did some investigation and found out that Wayland wasn't fully supported and I didn't want to mess with that, I wanted reliable.
RTX3060, no issues for me after installing the driver
Yeah I'm pretty sure it was an issue with PopOS, not the GPU/drivers.