The latest Nvidia driver 375.20 is now available. The interesting change is that it increases the OpenGL shader cache size, which may help with games like Deus Ex Mankind Divided on Linux.
One of the issues Deus Ex has, is that it will often re-cache everything when you load it up (that long loading time when you first open it), this driver should hopefully be a fix for that. I can't test it yet myself, as I am waiting for the PPA to be updated.
On top of that it also adds in support for newer GPU models, adds in support for xorg 1.19 and more. It's nice to see Nvidia so quick to ready their drivers for newer versions of xorg.
Find the full changelog here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
One of the issues Deus Ex has, is that it will often re-cache everything when you load it up (that long loading time when you first open it), this driver should hopefully be a fix for that. I can't test it yet myself, as I am waiting for the PPA to be updated.
On top of that it also adds in support for newer GPU models, adds in support for xorg 1.19 and more. It's nice to see Nvidia so quick to ready their drivers for newer versions of xorg.
Find the full changelog here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: NOX LinuX So then Linux users will have to wait for the PPA to get updated,
No. Ubuntu users might want to. Other Linux users probably not.
For Debian, you'll get 370.28 in experimental, but if you want newer ones, you can clone a repo from here: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/branches/ and build the packages yourself. See here: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releases_from_SVN for how to do that. And this will get you perfect packages for your distribution, with no screwed up dependencies to foreign repos.
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I have a GTX 650 TI BOOST and I install the drivers manually. When I'm in a game and OBS, I got crash after some time of streaming with 375.20 version. I returned to the previous stable version 370.28, in which I have no problems.
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Yes, I got the driver this morning for my Fedora machine from negatvo17 repo and I'm extra happy because of Xorg 1.19 support, so I won't have to wait for the proprietary driver to catch up before updating to Fedora 25 on Tuesday. I haven't had any driver performance problems up until this point and I hope to stay in this state as long as it's possible.
I wonder how will Nvidia proprietary driver deal with Wayland on Fedora 25 (Fedora/Red Hat developers have implemented this EGLstreams thing to enable it or so they say), has anyone tried it, does it affect anything?
I wonder how will Nvidia proprietary driver deal with Wayland on Fedora 25 (Fedora/Red Hat developers have implemented this EGLstreams thing to enable it or so they say), has anyone tried it, does it affect anything?
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Don't know if related, but in Saints Row IV characters started glitching out after about 40 mins of gameplay after upgrading to this driver, and not in a way they're supposed to. (You know what I mean if you've played it.) I think I'll go back to the 370 series for now.
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Looks like quality control at Nvidia is decreasing. A few days ago they released a broken driver on Windows as well (not that it affected me :P). Here a stable Linux driver that cannot start recent AAA games with mainstream cards on popular desktop environment. Wow!
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I am using Plasma and have a GTX980 , worst drivers ever for me :O
These drivers really destroy plasma 5 , Plasma was half functioning. right panel bar not showing .
Plasma Freezing if you click anything from system settings.
And the worst of all is that I couldn't even launch a game to play!
Reverted back to 370.28
These drivers really destroy plasma 5 , Plasma was half functioning. right panel bar not showing .
Plasma Freezing if you click anything from system settings.
And the worst of all is that I couldn't even launch a game to play!
Reverted back to 370.28
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Lordpkappa Nov 21, 2016
Still no problem here with 375.20.
No crash or rendering errors, but i have only 2 games right now in the system, Dawn Of War 2 with expansion and Rocket League.
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No crash or rendering errors, but i have only 2 games right now in the system, Dawn Of War 2 with expansion and Rocket League.
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johndoe86x Nov 21, 2016
Quoting: LordpkappaStill no problem here with 375.20.
No crash or rendering errors, but i have only 2 games right now in the system, Dawn Of War 2 with expansion and Rocket League.
I had no noticeable problems in Rocket League, but Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is completely unplayable.
I also have a very noob-ish question, but what's the best way to roll back the drivers in Antergos?
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Well, just got this update working. Fixed Dolphin's Vulkan renderer for me.
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Quoting: johndoe86xQuoting: LordpkappaStill no problem here with 375.20.
No crash or rendering errors, but i have only 2 games right now in the system, Dawn Of War 2 with expansion and Rocket League.
I had no noticeable problems in Rocket League, but Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is completely unplayable.
I also have a very noob-ish question, but what's the best way to roll back the drivers in Antergos?
look in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ for a cached version of your previous drivers. ls nvidia* - then use sudo pacman -U <drivers>
This should be 4 different files, the base driver file then libgl, settings and utils for the version you want to use.
another method is using downgrade or downgrader both use slightly different methods. downgrade generally will give a list. I used the pacman -U method to revert back to 375.10 for now. since this version has worked fine for me.
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