Well Nvidia dropped a bit of a big one today didn't they! Nvidia driver version 364.12 is now out and brings in official Vulkan support, Mir support and Wayland support.
For Mir and Wayland:
In addition to it also turns on the new OpenGL install method of "GLVND".
Note: Some games have issues with this, so I would hold off on upgrading for the moment until the reports flow in on what games it breaks.
It also adds a cherry on top:
Find the full changelog and download here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
For Mir and Wayland:
QuoteAdded support for the following EGL extensions:
EGL_EXT_platform_wayland
to enable Wayland applications to run on NVIDIA's EGL implementation,
EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display
to enable Wayland compositors to run on NVIDIA's EGL implementation, and
EGL_EXT_device_drm
EGL_EXT_output_drm
EGL_EXT_stream_consumer_egloutput
to enable Mir and Wayland compositors to display their content through EGLDevice, EGLOutput, and EGLstreams.
Added a Wayland platform library, libnvidia-egl-wayland.so, to allow Wayland compositors that support EGLDevice, EGLOutput, and EGLstreams to share EGL buffers with Wayland applications.
In addition to it also turns on the new OpenGL install method of "GLVND".
QuoteChanged the default OpenGL installation type to use the GLVND GLX client libraries rather than the legacy non-GLVND libraries.
Note: Some games have issues with this, so I would hold off on upgrading for the moment until the reports flow in on what games it breaks.
It also adds a cherry on top:
QuoteAdded initial support for Direct Rendering Manager Kernel Modesetting (DRM KMS). See the DRM KMS section of the README for details.
Added a new kernel module, nvidia-drm.ko, which registers as a DRM driver with both PRIME and DRM KMS support.
Find the full changelog and download here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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walther von stolzing Mar 22, 2016
I wonder whether nvidia has any intention of implementing fbdev.
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Testing with borderlands 2 native at simple seek runs good
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Using PPSSPP 1.2.2 native also runs without problem
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And on wine 1.9.6 also runs without problem
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^_^
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Using PPSSPP 1.2.2 native also runs without problem
View video on youtube.com
And on wine 1.9.6 also runs without problem
View video on youtube.com
^_^
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For the option __GLVND_DISALLOW_PATCHING=1 %command% - there was a note of a nvidia dev that they're looking into fixing this. Due to the changelog not specifying anything about it, my good-to-go guess is that it was not fixed (yet).
Indeed it is fixed. Bioshock Infinite and Borderlands 2 now start fine without setting this environment variable.
Further, the XCOM 2 regression is indeed fixed, I now went from 17 fps to 26 fps in the Avenger view. However, the patch came at the same time, so I cannot rule out Feral optimisation work too.
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Well just tested The Talos Principle in Arch Linux and is impressive it maybe a proof of concept but runs way faster than opengl. I don't know about the regression but Portal works fine without __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=0 option in the launcher script.
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mattsturgeon Mar 22, 2016
Good to hear it fixes the __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=0 slash __GLVND_DISALLOW_PATCHING=1 problem!
I wonder how long until it makes it into the Arch package, the bump to 361.28 happened the same day as release, but the original 361.16 took two days, 358.16 was one day.
In any case it's already appeared in the nvidia-beta AUR package, though I think I'll hold off rather than switching packages.
I wonder how long until it makes it into the Arch package, the bump to 361.28 happened the same day as release, but the original 361.16 took two days, 358.16 was one day.
In any case it's already appeared in the nvidia-beta AUR package, though I think I'll hold off rather than switching packages.
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