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this was so surprising to me; my favorite game (tropico) didn't have blinking tiles/polygons on my linux rig than it did on windows.
it was super strange because i put linux on my old windows laptop and it also got the blinking; but the game got better when i bought a linux-only laptop with zero proprietary stuff on it (not even the bios). go figure.
Difference in GPU?
yes and not the way you're probably thinking: the last windows rig had a dedicated nvidia card (i forget which) while the linux rig had a cheapo integrated intel gpu and the intel gpu it performed MUCH better like i described.
it could also have been the maturity of the nvidia driver back then, but then again it was the same game on both machines so it wasn't that far apart in age-wise.
Nvidia's always had quirky issues especially 10 series and before on Linux
i was going to argue that there's no way that it was ten years ago before i realized that the tropico i liked was released 11 years ago. lol
afterall: 1999 was only 15 years ago too. lol