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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edddeduck_feral May 12, 2017
Quoting: HihiDanniThanks for the read. Guess I should try to read the full thread next time.
No worries! Sometimes it's very easy to miss the odd comment. :-)
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I'm really impressed with this upgrade -- I'm getting nearly twice the FPS in Talos Principal's Vulkan renderer as I do with the OpenGL renderer now.
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Quoting: EgonautQuoting: dudiblahBreaks cinnamon on mint 18.1 with kernel 4.11. 4.10 is fine however.
You can't install the Nvidia-drivers on 4.11.0 due to policy changes in the Kernel. The Kernel just don't allow any non GPL code anymore. The Nvidia driver uses a mix of MIT/GPL License and that's the Problem.
There are 3 ways to fix that:
1) Patch the Nvidia driver, which is a legal issue.
2) Patch the Linux Kernel to allow non GPL code too.
3) Wait for 4.11.1, which should come this weekend and will allow mixed Licenses.
Thanks for the heads up. Almost did a ooopsy.
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Okay, so I installed the latest drivers last night (along with several presumably unrelated updates). I just got home from work and woke my system up from suspend and...
...They finally fixed a bug that's been plaguing my system for months! For the longest time my system became largely unresponsive on resume, and I had to hold Ctrl + Alt + F2 until it decided to switch to VT2, then press Ctrl + Alt + F1 to switch back to the X server before I could unlock my screen. Now I might not have to do that anymore and it feels kind of amazing! Thank you whoever fixed this bug, as it was easily my biggest Linux papercut for quite some time!
...They finally fixed a bug that's been plaguing my system for months! For the longest time my system became largely unresponsive on resume, and I had to hold Ctrl + Alt + F2 until it decided to switch to VT2, then press Ctrl + Alt + F1 to switch back to the X server before I could unlock my screen. Now I might not have to do that anymore and it feels kind of amazing! Thank you whoever fixed this bug, as it was easily my biggest Linux papercut for quite some time!
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