Just a word of warning, the Nvidia 375.20 driver seems to have quite a number of issues in certain games bringing performance down a lot.
Not everyone will have issues, as it seems only certain people are affected. Some people have reported no issues, while others are being given black screens or outright terrible performance.
Nvidia recommend downgrading to the 375.10 driver.
The next 375.xx driver should have a fix available, but Nvidia said there is no workaround for the 375.20 driver. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Not everyone will have issues, as it seems only certain people are affected. Some people have reported no issues, while others are being given black screens or outright terrible performance.
Nvidia recommend downgrading to the 375.10 driver.
The next 375.xx driver should have a fix available, but Nvidia said there is no workaround for the 375.20 driver. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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everything works/have been working fine for me with 375.20. no issues to report.
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Quoting: dubigrasuFortunately I have no issues with this driver, and actually is a keeper. It gives a slight increase in performance in some benchmarks, for example in the Unreal Infiltrator demo (compared here with the previous stable driver):
367.57:
Min/avg/max frametimes (ms): 8.35 / 27.8543 / 304.27
Min/avg/max FPS: 3.28655 / 35.9011 / 119.76
50/90/95/99 percentiles (ms): 29.04 / 35.06 / 36.65 / 42.29
375.20:
Min/avg/max frametimes (ms): 10.48 / 26.298 / 308.28
Min/avg/max FPS: 3.2438 / 38.0256 / 95.4198
50/90/95/99 percentiles (ms): 26.29 / 31.78 / 33.90 / 37.38
Frametimes (375.20 in red):
Very good information
Thanks for made that
In my case stay working without problem with GTX 630 GK 208 and in my new card too (native and non native apps tested until now)
^_^
Last edited by mrdeathjr on 27 November 2016 at 10:38 am UTC
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No issue with 375.20 too as far as I can tell (on Pascal). :)
Last edited by riusma on 27 November 2016 at 11:02 am UTC
Last edited by riusma on 27 November 2016 at 11:02 am UTC
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Yeah, seems to not effect everyone. I am on a GTX970m (Maxwell) and the 375.20 driver seems to work just fine.
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No troubles with 375.20, but I am playing on a laptop so it might be related...
Edit: I run an Nvidia GTX 950M on Linux Mint Cinnamon 18 and actually get less FPS drops in Mad Max. No problems so far to run several apps at the same time or in games that have been mentioned (Grid Autosport and Mad Max, as I don't own Deus EX)
Last edited by Mike on 27 November 2016 at 1:57 pm UTC
Edit: I run an Nvidia GTX 950M on Linux Mint Cinnamon 18 and actually get less FPS drops in Mad Max. No problems so far to run several apps at the same time or in games that have been mentioned (Grid Autosport and Mad Max, as I don't own Deus EX)
Last edited by Mike on 27 November 2016 at 1:57 pm UTC
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375.20 is completely broken for me (GTX 970)...
With KDE:
I can't launch two OpenGL apps at the same time (the second hangs)
(blender + blender, Steam + some games like DE:MD, Mad Max, etc...)
KDE hangs itself when showing the lockscreen / shutdown window...
Basically, with KDE, the system is unusable...
With cinnamon things go better:
I can launch games from steam but for example: DE:MD runs horribly (~1 FPS?)
Downgraded to 375.10...
I guess I'll wait 375.30... :( :><:
With KDE:
I can't launch two OpenGL apps at the same time (the second hangs)
(blender + blender, Steam + some games like DE:MD, Mad Max, etc...)
KDE hangs itself when showing the lockscreen / shutdown window...
Basically, with KDE, the system is unusable...
With cinnamon things go better:
I can launch games from steam but for example: DE:MD runs horribly (~1 FPS?)
Downgraded to 375.10...
I guess I'll wait 375.30... :( :><:
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slain-savage Nov 27, 2016
This issue seems to affect some factory overclocked GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080 cards and this appears to be the same problem that Windows users encountered with the 375.85 driver. With 375.20 on Linux I have noticed under PowerMizer that my card will not go higher than performance level 1 and the memory is locked at 1620 Mhz. I got massive frame drops in Grid Autosports, Deus Ex, Counter Strike and other games. Downgrading to 375.10 fixes the problem.
Windows users having a problem that appears to be the same
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/976786/nvidia-drivers-375-86-low-memory-clock/
Nvidia's response
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/977133/geforce-drivers/announcing-hot-fix-driver-375-95/
Windows users having a problem that appears to be the same
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/976786/nvidia-drivers-375-86-low-memory-clock/
Nvidia's response
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/977133/geforce-drivers/announcing-hot-fix-driver-375-95/
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Quoting: catskinsoxMaybe that option is somehow embedded in the newest driver, and if you have manually added it, maybe it is somehow causing a conflict and the performance issue?
If you click advanced in the display configuration you will see a check box that wasn't there in earlier drivers. It says "Force full composition pipeline". So it's basically on by default now.
Edit: Took them long enough...
Last edited by AlveKatt on 27 November 2016 at 11:37 am UTC
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I hope they fix the composite pipeline ( if it is an issue ) because the smoothness of desktop / gameplay was worse with it enabled than the trusty but age old compiz compositor. That said, i haven't found a compositor as smooth as that yet other than kwin which is just too finicky to keep working.
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Quoting: Avehicle7887The drivers from the Nvidia website are safe to use, for over 2 years I've been installing them in this way and I can't say I've ever had any problems, so if you can't find what you need in the repo you might wanna give them a shot :-)
Good luck doing that on Manjaro :P
(is possible but the effort/risk required to do that is just not worth it overall)
Last edited by wolfyrion on 27 November 2016 at 1:31 pm UTC
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