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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leillo1975 Nov 27, 2016
I downgraded to 370 and played with DeusEx:HM about 4 hours without issues. With 375 the Game gets stalled ramdomly and I have crashes to Desktop
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Those of you using 370, you getting them from a certain PPA? I am using KDE Neon and highest is 367.57.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Nov 27, 2016
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 :-)
But, How to install the drivers from Nvidia website on Ubuntu 14 or 16???
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Yeah I was having the same issue as well and went from 375.20 to 370.28 and my games work fine now.
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I can confirm that with the 375.20 DeusEx MD was experimenting freezes but after downgrading to 370 now everything works fine.
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slaapliedje Nov 27, 2016
Quoting: Seegras370.28 is the newest here on Debian (unstable) anyway, as long as I don't decide to compile and build the packages myself. Usually I don't do that, unless there's a compelling reason to do so. Which there wasn't in that case anyway.
Was confused for a minute, 370.28 is in Experimental, unstable has 367.57.
Out of curiosity, do you have performance issues in Mad Max? Specifically in the area near Gastown (last area). Well or anyone else. I have the details set on Max, running a 1080GTX and in 1920x1080, but it stutters like a mofo in that area. All the garbage floating around, or something.
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Quoting: slaapliedjeOut of curiosity, do you have performance issues in Mad Max? Specifically in the area near Gastown (last area). Well or anyone else. I have the details set on Max, running a 1080GTX and in 1920x1080, but it stutters like a mofo in that area. All the garbage floating around, or something.I had the same problem in that area running a GTX 970 with 370.28 driver.
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Quoting: Comandante oardoQuoting: 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 :-)
But, How to install the drivers from Nvidia website on Ubuntu 14 or 16???
The driver version 375.20 from the NVIDIA website also has the problem
How to install the .run on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install dkms
CTRL+ALT+F1
sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop && sudo sh /home/USER/Downloads/./DRIVER.run
CTRL+ALT+F7 or sudo reboot
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installed 375.20 and noticed that certain apps I use at work crash (Blackmagic Fusion for example), while some seem to slow down. Hope Nvidia will issue a fix quickly - as I've recently upgraded to Fedora 25 with new Xorg downgrading will a bit trickier than usual (will have to downgrade Xorg first).
Thx for reporting Liam!
Last edited by PJ on 27 November 2016 at 8:29 pm UTC
Thx for reporting Liam!
Last edited by PJ on 27 November 2016 at 8:29 pm UTC
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Quoting: SeeKI have nvidia 375.20 running on 3 rigs here, no problems so far. Upgraded from nvidia-361, nvidia-367 and nvidia-370 and saw noticeable performance gains in all cases. Used the graphics-drivers ppa (nvidia-375).
Rig 1: i7-4790K, EVGA GTX980, kernel 4.8.0, nvidia-375, Mint 18, Cinnamon 3.2
Rig 2: i7-6700K, EVGA GTX780Ti, kernel 4.8.0, nvidia-375, Mint 18, Cinnamon 3.2
Rig 3: i7-4770K, MSI GTX980Ti, kernel 4.8.0, nvidia-375, Mint 18, Cinnamon 3.2
Nice rigs:)
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