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Created: 2026-05-28T02:14:37-07:00 · Part 1 of 1
can you display the terminal command for Ubuntu to install the recommened video driver. I think a plain old reinstall might fix my gnome issue while streaming
Yep. For your Ubuntu desktop with the NVIDIA card, this installs Ubuntu’s recommended driver:
sudo ubuntu-drivers install
Then reboot:
sudo reboot
That is the current Canonical-recommended command for desktop/gaming NVIDIA systems; it uses the same driver-selection logic as the Additional Drivers panel. citeturn312834search0
Before installing, you can check what Ubuntu recommends:
ubuntu-drivers devices
Since your GNOME crash only appears when streaming starts, reinstalling the NVIDIA driver is a reasonable step. After rebooting, test streaming once with Software (x264) encoding first. If GNOME remains stable, switch back to Hardware (NVENC, H.264) and test again.
from what I am seeing reported here it looks like at some point I only got a partial update we will see after reboot if I can stream again.
That would fit the symptoms. If the GNOME session, kernel module, and NVIDIA user-space pieces ended up slightly out of sync during an interrupted or partial update, OBS starting a real capture/encode workload could be the point where it falls over.
After reboot, I would check the driver loaded cleanly before testing OBS:
nvidia-smi
If that gives you a normal table showing the RTX 3060 and an NVIDIA driver version, start OBS and try a short stream first with Software (x264), then test Hardware (NVENC, H.264).
If the reboot does not fix it, the next repair pass would be:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo ubuntu-drivers install
sudo reboot
That sequence completes any unfinished package configuration, repairs dependencies, applies the full current update set, and reinstalls Ubuntu’s recommended NVIDIA driver. Ubuntu documents ubuntu-drivers install as the recommended automatic installation route for desktop/gaming NVIDIA use. citeturn220977search2
