Nvidia 375.20 stable driver released, increases OpenGL shader cache size and more

Quoting: GuestAmen, also a graphical installer would be nice. It's 2016 and they still make you shut down Xorg and run it from the command line.

I'd personally rather see the more common distros support more up-to-date GPU drivers in their repositories.

QuoteI plan to buy DEUS: EX the next days. I've a GTX 970. How is the performance, what settings should I choose?

I have a GTX970 as well. The min fps is around 30, and won't climb very high appart in some certain location. But between normal settings and my custom settings, fps don't drop more than normal.
It will drop down in some places, a bit less but getting a constant 60fps is utopic on ultra settings even on windows with a GTX1070.

The game is completly playable on GTX970 with these settings:

-Texture Quality = Very High
-Texture Filtering (Anisotropic)= 8
-Shadow Quality = Medium
-Contact Hardening Shadows = Off
-Temporal Anti Aliasing = On
-Motion Blur = Off
-Depth of Field = Off
-Bloom = On
-Lens Flare = Off
-Volumetric Lighting = On
-Surface Scatering = On
-Cloth Physics = On
-Ambient Occlusion = On
-Tessalation = Off
-Parallax Occlusion Mapping = High
-Screenspace Reflections = On
-Sharpen = On
-Chromatic Aberration = Off
-Level of Detail = Very High

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: koyal13I recently update on Arch to this version... but I found a lot of games where appear freezes, bad renders and some suddenly "black textures". All are old problems that we have seen in the past, but I'm discovering on games like Grid Autosport, Mad Max and many of my best games (right now I cant try Deus).
Very bad update for me...

no issues..

i had mentioned games freezing with earlier version but it turned out to be problem on ck kernel which was 4.8.3.
latest ck kernel doesnt have that problem. stock kernel is also fine

What version Ubuntu are you using?
I played for a few days Deus Ex Mankind Divided and had a lot of crashes during gameplay on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

i don't use ubuntu.
specs in profile.
havent encountered any crashes in Deus Ex yet, but have played only about 3 hours

375.20 with Pascal 1070 and 1080 same bug of the Windows version: ram fixed at 810 mhz...

Quoting: JahimselfThe game is completly playable on GTX970 with these settings:

-Texture Quality = Very High
-Texture Filtering (Anisotropic)= 8
-Shadow Quality = Medium
-Contact Hardening Shadows = Off
-Temporal Anti Aliasing = On
-Motion Blur = Off
-Depth of Field = Off
-Bloom = On
-Lens Flare = Off
-Volumetric Lighting = On
-Surface Scatering = On
-Cloth Physics = On
-Ambient Occlusion = On
-Tessalation = Off
-Parallax Occlusion Mapping = High
-Screenspace Reflections = On
-Sharpen = On
-Chromatic Aberration = Off
-Level of Detail = Very High

Thank you Jahimself! This was exactly what I like to know.

Is there a possibility to limit the game to constant 30 fps? I've played Shadow of Mordor with 30 fps without problems. It was only disturbing for me if a game always jumps between 30 and 60 fps.


Last edited by 1xok on 19 November 2016 at 4:23 pm UTC

Quoting: AimelaI'd personally rather see the more common distros support more up-to-date GPU drivers in their repositories.

This.

With arch it's a simple matter of sudo pacman -S nvidia.

it's easy to create a gui solution for that to prompt installation or a new update etc.

Get the new drivers in the repo's and the problem is solved.

I got fps hovering around 60 (usually just below if not at) most of the time in-game after the latest Deus Ex patch using a GTX 970. Set the preset to High and don't really bother messing with it. Very High textures and some other settings require VRAM to be above 4gb if you don't want hitching and slow down.

Performance still isn't as high as Windows but it's much more playable than launch.


Last edited by Mblackwell on 19 November 2016 at 7:08 pm UTC

I am having game issues with American Truck Simulator (Beta 1.5*) that I didn't have with the 370 nvidia drivers. Its pretty much unplayable at this time. Changing any settings in game is making it worse.

*EDIT* I just downgraded the drivers, the problems went away.


Last edited by salamanderrake on 19 November 2016 at 7:31 pm UTC

Quoting: koyal13I recently update on Arch to this version... but I found a lot of games where appear freezes, bad renders and some suddenly "black textures". All are old problems that we have seen in the past, but I'm discovering on games like Grid Autosport, Mad Max and many of my best games (right now I cant try Deus).
Very bad update for me...

Yes, same for me, broke Deus Ex and Shadow of Mordor (did not try other games). Shadow of Mordor looks like a slideshow. This is with a Skylake CPU (6700K) and an EVGA GTX970, Linux arch 4.8.8-2-ARCH. Downgrading to 375.10 fixed the issue.


Last edited by zeb on 19 November 2016 at 9:23 pm UTC

I think the issue with 375.20, which only affect a specific number of users (GTX970/980?), has been reported to nvidia devs here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/977518/problems-with-multiple-opengl-applications-running-simultaneously-with-375-20-on-a-gtx970/?offset=2. Hopefully they will provide a fix quickly.