Nvidia has pushed out a new 349.12 beta driver with lots of little changes, but no performance updates this time around.
Along side the usual bug fixes, there is improved support for G-SYNC monitors being used along side monitors that don't support it, which I imagine is quite important for people with lots of screens.
They also added this for G-SYNC monitors:
QuoteAdded a checkbox to nvidia-settings to enable a visual indicator that shows when G-SYNC is being used. This is helpful for displays that don't indicate themselves whether they are operating in G-SYNC mode or normal mode.
I have to hand it to Nvidia, they are adding lots of little useful things.
See their full notes here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Come on Nvidia, add Nvidia 3d Vision support to your Linux drivers please. I got this sweet little set of glasses collecting dust here. :(
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Kallestofeles Mar 26, 2015
More features on the application 3d department would be nice, like forcing vsync on/off. Probably can be done via cli but definitely should be present in the driver settings manager just like in windows.
But I would give away every setting just to get a performance boost... oh Vulkan, come fast and stay strong.
But I would give away every setting just to get a performance boost... oh Vulkan, come fast and stay strong.
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At simple seek in wine, performance seems very similar with 346.47, however in assasins creed brotherhood single player appears gains around 5fps depending scene
View video on youtube.com
Maybe more later add other tests
^_^
View video on youtube.com
Maybe more later add other tests
^_^
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Avehicle7887 Mar 26, 2015
Quoting: mrdeathjrAt simple seek in wine, performance seems very similar with 346.47, however in assasins creed brother hood single player appears gains around 5fps depending scene
Are you using CSMT in that Wine? It seems to run so well for a GT 630 and Intel G3220. I've seen some other videos from you, great work :-)
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Quoting: BeamboomCome on Nvidia, add Nvidia 3d Vision support to your Linux drivers please. I got this sweet little set of glasses collecting dust here. :(
Ah, but surely Windows users are crying out for this feature too. After all, feature parity is something that the nvidia devs are very determined to maintain...
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Quoting: WorMzyQuoting: BeamboomCome on Nvidia, add Nvidia 3d Vision support to your Linux drivers please. I got this sweet little set of glasses collecting dust here. :(
Ah, but surely Windows users are crying out for this feature too. After all, feature parity is something that the nvidia devs are very determined to maintain...
LOL. I know they wished they never used that sentence. I throw it around their Linux forum all the time.
Our control panel is exactly the sa.. err.. I mean at parity to the windows control panel. Oh wait.. No its not. We don't have a sane way to do per app/game settings.. I swear half of the settings in there do absolutely nothing except fill a checkbox. Hell you can't even setup SLI in there.
We have surround sli mode.. Oh yea.. No we don't because nvidia locks that to quadro cards in Linux because $$..
When you do enable SLI in Linux you can only use a single monitor.. Not like it matters.. Most of the time enabling SLI actually causes worse perf. (This is supposedly an opengl problem??)
I'm sure the list goes on... Those are the few that piss me off the most though.
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Quoting: Avehicle7887Quoting: mrdeathjrAt simple seek in wine, performance seems very similar with 346.47, however in assasins creed brotherhood single player appears gains around 5fps depending scene
Are you using CSMT in that Wine? It seems to run so well for a GT 630 and Intel G3220. I've seen some other videos from you, great work :-)
Thanks
No i using only wine vanilla, in my case still waiting CSMT too but when stay in mainline if all continues like as now as many chances to see in this year (CSMT are proposed for wine 1.8 release criteria)
^_^
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How do you guys install the latest nvidia driver?
I'm on ubuntu 14.04 and the the PPA Xorg Edgers bugs on installation. :/
I'm on ubuntu 14.04 and the the PPA Xorg Edgers bugs on installation. :/
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Quoting: filsdHow do you guys install the latest nvidia driver?
I'm on ubuntu 14.04 and the the PPA Xorg Edgers bugs on installation. :/
I had issues with edgers multiple times when I used xubuntu.
I don't know if there is another PPA these days that has Nvidia drivers, but I use to install/maintain my own by downloading them right from Nvidia and installing using the .run when I used xubuntu. It is not the "preferred" Linux way of using the package manager, but I never ran into issues other than possibly being on too new a kernel and needing to patch the drivers. If you are using the ubuntu provided Kernel that wouldn't be an issue for you though.
~rough steps from memory, I use Arch these days.~
1. download driver from Nvidia (64-bit 349.12 beta HERE
2. Save any work and close all programs for good measure
3. Change to tty1 (ctrl+alt+f1)
4. sudo service stop lightdm (or whatever DM they use these days)
5. sudo apt-get purge nvidia* (don't remember exactly what it was called)
6. cd to dir with nvidia_driver_you_want_2_install.run
7. chmod +x nvidia_driver_you_want_2_install.run
8. sudo ./nvidia_driver_you_want_2_install.run
9. follow onscreen prompts
10. reboot and pray ;)
To uninstall just use "sudo ./nvidia_driver_you_want_2_install.run --uninstall" instead, and then you can reinstall from the ubuntu/ppa if you need/want to.
*DISCLAIMER* Don't attempt this if any of those steps make you uncomfortable and/or you are not confident you can recover from something going wrong.
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