how do i run NVENC on my thinkpad W540

[Metro_dude_OE]

hey, I'm new to the whole forums thing so idk what the manners of this are but basically, I'm running linux mint on my Thinkpad W540 and i am using OBS 30 system package and the video encoder is set to software encoder, and when i set it to NVENC it gives this.

Device-2: NVIDIA GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02 arch: Kepler pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none

but i have the latest nvidia driver for my graphics card i believe and its still giving me that error but i still get the options and also i saw a forum on this with a guy who also had the same laptop with the same graphics card in here https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/getting-nvidia-k1100m-quadro-to-1080p-60fps.133518/

and it showed a picture of them running NEVNC in output. though it was windows 10 but that leads me to believe that there is a way to make it run on linux as well so please help me out. I'll provide more info if needed. Thanks

 

[Tuna]

Yeah.. that was 5 years ago. For Linux NVENC OBS 31 requires driver version 550 or higher.

 

[Metro_dude_OE]

Yeah.. that was 5 years ago. For Linux NVENC OBS 31 requires driver version 550 or higher.

oof, so like no way? or can i make some sort of adjustment to bypass this?

 

[Tuna]

You would have to build old/specific versions of FFMPEG with older NVENC support und build (probably older version) of OBS to use that versions. May involve other dependencies too. Definitely not easy.

 

[Metro_dude_OE]

I don't

You would have to build old/specific versions of FFMPEG with older NVENC support und build (probably older version) of OBS to use that versions. May involve other dependencies too. Definitely not easy.

i don't suppose there's any tutorials on stuff like this on youtube or somewhere else is there? well, this sucks but ig there is no way to do anything about now is there.