NVIDIA have released their 381.22 driver which comes with plenty of fixes, newer Vulkan support and more.
It now turns off OpenGL threaded optimizations by default, as they had enough reports showing that it was causing instability.
It adds support for these Vulkan extensions:
They also removed their NVIDIA logo splash screen which could show up on booting into a distribution. I'm glad they've removed it, but I practically never saw it. The only time I've ever seen it is on my TV PC which weirdly shows it for a second before the login screen, that's the only time I've ever personally seen it happen across all the computers I've owned with NVIDIA. It likely depends on how it's installed.
It also has "Improved compatibility with recent kernels", so you should have little to no trouble with this driver on the latest and greatest Kernel. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
It now turns off OpenGL threaded optimizations by default, as they had enough reports showing that it was causing instability.
It adds support for these Vulkan extensions:
- VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display
- VK_EXT_display_control
- VK_EXT_display_surface_counter
- VK_EXT_direct_mode_display
- VK_KHX_external_memory
- VK_KHX_external_memory_fd
- VK_KHX_external_semaphore
- VK_KHX_external_semaphore_fd
They also removed their NVIDIA logo splash screen which could show up on booting into a distribution. I'm glad they've removed it, but I practically never saw it. The only time I've ever seen it is on my TV PC which weirdly shows it for a second before the login screen, that's the only time I've ever personally seen it happen across all the computers I've owned with NVIDIA. It likely depends on how it's installed.
It also has "Improved compatibility with recent kernels", so you should have little to no trouble with this driver on the latest and greatest Kernel. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: bubexelIt have direct mode for VR? Anyone knows?...
The drivers 381.09 had already Direct Mode support for SteamVR.
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Kallestofeles May 10, 2017
Quoting: DMGI do not think, it is ARK fault. I did not see any video, where someone had similar issues, but I see them a lot. And ARK is not only game with such glitches. I have similar issue with Master of Orion, where main character has no face and developers said this driver fault.Please re-post the issues you're having as they're not available for everyone.
ARK is a phuked up piece of s?#t on Linux and no amount of nVidia optimizations is going to fix it. The developers have even stated on multiple occasions that they "don't have time" for Linux version, meaning that they just don't care.
If the devs don't care about that crap, nor should you. :\
This is not a rant against you or anyone who wants to play ARK, it's a great concept of a game. However the developers are just i(¤&#s who don't care for jack about their product nor do they have any vision of where they want to go with it.
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freerunnerlive May 10, 2017
I habe big Problem with playing 4k h265 movies. Under windeath i have very low CPU usage. Under Linux my CPU sucks over 100% usage.
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Huh now I do not know even what to think. How can I figure out who is guilty for glitch in game? In Master of Orion I had this glitch:
Game support said that it is driver fault and I need to wait till they optimize it. And how can I know, is it driver fault or game developer?
Game support said that it is driver fault and I need to wait till they optimize it. And how can I know, is it driver fault or game developer?
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drvictor666 May 10, 2017
With the 378 driver, Ballistic Overkill dropped to barely 30FPS when running with optirun/primus. After two weeks of frustrations, research and playing with configurations, I gave up and disabled bumblebee altogether. Then, with only the dedicated graphics enabled in xorg.conf, the performance increased for more than 400%. That's a very frustrating development as I prefer having switchable graphics. I'm very eager to try the latest drive tonight to see if things have improved for me.
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natewardawg May 10, 2017
Quoting: DMGSo only I have such problems in ARK with nvidia drivers? I did not test latest driver version, but previous versions had this glitches in ARK. At least I have. Caves for me is unplayable at all. Whenever there is some smoke or fog, I see images, like below.
ARK is the source of the glitches in this case, not the drivers.
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morgancoxuk May 10, 2017
Quoting: metro2033fanboyI hope it aint the current 381 on their PPA, cause that one freezes my Mint a lot! ... EVGA 1060
PS: The one on Nvidia PPA is .09 and this one is .22 haha...waitinggggggggggggggggg
Actually they have just bumped the version to .22 - check now.
Works fine on my 1060 (i'm using plasma though not cinnamon)
Last edited by morgancoxuk on 10 May 2017 at 12:38 pm UTC
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I have not been able to find this driver on nvidia's driver site. What is the list of supported chipsets for the 381.XX drivers?
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Quoting: MagamoI have not been able to find this driver on nvidia's driver site. What is the list of supported chipsets for the 381.XX drivers?https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/533434/linux/current-graphics-driver-releases/
https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/381.22/README/supportedchips.html
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