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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cRaZy-bisCuiT Nov 28, 2016
It's better to upgrade in 2017 though just because you could go straight to Zen. If Zen couldn't fulfill it's expectations you might want to choose the next gen Intel CPU instead.
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johndoe86x Nov 28, 2016
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):
Could you tell me how you extracted this info, specifically the frametimes? I was wanting to do some comparisons like this for myself with my 980 Ti. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is unplayable for me on 375.20, but Rocket League seems to work without issue.
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For me the driver works perfect with good performance in some games except Deus Ex Mankind Divided that has bad performance now.
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Quoting: johndoe86xCould you tell me how you extracted this info, specifically the frametimes? I was wanting to do some comparisons like this for myself with my 980 Ti. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is unplayable for me on 375.20, but Rocket League seems to work without issue.
You can use voglperf or libframetime:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/voglperf
https://github.com/clbr/libframetime
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Comandante Ñoñardo Nov 29, 2016
I just played a little bit of Dead Island Definitive with a GTX 970 and the driver 375.20 and the game run better than before.. At least, for me.
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doom-o-matic Nov 29, 2016
The only thing I noticed is (GTX970) that I get random slowdowns on XCOM2 when in the Avenger or in Cutscenes. Almost feels like a shader pipeline is completely overwhelmed.
I will downgrade tonight.
I will downgrade tonight.
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Quoting: TheReaperUKOh and why does Manjaro Linux think i have 8 Cores on the I7-6700?That's Hyperthreading for you. SeeK explained it all in his post.
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TacoDeBoss Nov 30, 2016
I wish that was an option...
But I run Debian Sid and the X Server was upgraded. 375.20 is the only driver that supports it.
But I run Debian Sid and the X Server was upgraded. 375.20 is the only driver that supports it.
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I run Linux Mint 18 with a GTX 760 and noticed slight improvements without any crashes. GPU_test showed about 5 frames a second better in all tests but furmark. American Truck Simulator, GRID Autosport, Insurgency, CS:GO, Cities: Skylines ran a slight bit smoother but I can't prove it. 375.20 has been great so far. Thanks for posting about the new driver.
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Last edited by marvtowel on 1 December 2016 at 10:12 am UTC
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GeForce GTX 980 on Ubuntu 16.10, ARK performance has greatly decreased after installing 375.20. Had to go back to previous version.
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GTX 660Ti on Funtoo, here; my window manager (enlightenment) actually yells at me on launch about my display driver not supporting OpenGL or GTLS shaders, and games run like molasses.
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