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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It have direct mode for VR? Anyone knows?...
The drivers 381.09 had already Direct Mode support for SteamVR.
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Kallestofeles 10 May 2017
I 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.
View video on youtube.com
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freerunnerlive 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 2017
So 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 10 May 2017
I 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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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?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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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?
Most times, you just can't...
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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.Do you think it is related to this new nvidia driver, or do you have it with earlier versions too?
It might be enough to switch to another videoplayer
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It have direct mode for VR? Anyone knows?...
The drivers 381.09 had already Direct Mode support for SteamVR.
Wrong. 381.09 doesnt have direct mode.
update: yes, this new driver works with direct mode! :D
Last edited by bubexel on 10 May 2017 at 2:34 pm UTC
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edddeduck_feral 10 May 2017
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?
Most times, you just can't...
Well Said, even though some people post like they are sure of who's to blame unless you're in the developer (game/driver) it's usually pretty hard to tell especially with more subtle bugs.
Sometimes you can work it out but it's rarely obvious. In fact sometimes even as a developer it can take a good few days / weeks to work it out as it can end up being a bit of both :)
Last edited by edddeduck_feral on 10 May 2017 at 2:29 pm UTC
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GloriousEggroll 10 May 2017
I 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
kernel problem maybe? I run 381.09 dkms beta on arch with 4.10 kernel with no problems, 980 ti
also I wonder if this will be compatible with libglvnd, as the beta drivers require nvidia-libgl but the older 378 driver works with libglvnd
Last edited by GloriousEggroll on 10 May 2017 at 2:49 pm UTC
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To anyone still on the 375* series,
We are stuck on 367.27 on SteamOS, you insensitive clod ;)
Edit: I wonder if game devs, e.g. Feral, can put some pressure on Valve to update Nvidia drivers in SteamOS.
Last edited by skinnyraf on 10 May 2017 at 4:11 pm UTC
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It have direct mode for VR? Anyone knows?...
The drivers 381.09 had already Direct Mode support for SteamVR.
Wrong. 381.09 doesnt have direct mode.
update: yes, this new driver works with direct mode! :D
Well not sure what you did but I was using 381.09 and SteamVR + HTC Vive in direct mode :)
Last edited by Yaakuro on 10 May 2017 at 4:24 pm UTC
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freerunnerlive 10 May 2017
All versions incl. The New one habe the same problemI habe big Problem with playing 4k h265 movies. Under windeath i have very low CPU usage. Under Linux my CPU sucks over 100% usage.Do you think it is related to this new nvidia driver, or do you have it with earlier versions too?
It might be enough to switch to another videoplayer
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Comandante Ñoñardo 10 May 2017
Yes. In Windows, the Nvidia driver has a huge list of games and You can configure the driver settings for each individual games...It's not? Maybe not quite as easy, but there are Application Profiles in the NVIDIA X Server Settings that you can set up based on multiple triggers, process name being one of them.
In Linux, to configure the driver settings for each game is not that easy.
I know about "Aplication Profiles" in the NVIDIA X Server Settings... It MUST be intuitive like the windows version of the driver's GUI, but it's not..
Considering the open and cooperative nature of Linux, by now there should be a huge list of game presets in the "Aplication Profiles" list..
Also, I don't understand why the GUI of the Nvidia linux drivers looks so different than the intuitive GUI windows version.
Even the Nvidia Physx settings tab is not available on the Linux version...
In my opinion, that is not good if We want more incursions (or migrations) of Windows gamers.
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GloriousEggroll 10 May 2017
Great, the new 381.22 driver borked my x server (installed it via 18.1 Mint's driver manager too).
*sigh*
I don't have time for this, gotta mess around with it when I get home from work tonight. Basically after updating, I log in via the usual login screen and it goes straight to a black desktop with only a visible mouse cursor.
Gonna try reverting to 375.xx
if you have any nvidia kernel modules in mkinitcpio.conf and have any nvidia kernel settings (such as nvidia-drm.modeset=1), try removing them then re-run mkinitcpio -P (or reinstall the driver package as it usually runs this anyway). I had to do this to get 381.09 beta drivers to work in arch
Last edited by GloriousEggroll on 10 May 2017 at 5:05 pm UTC
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GloriousEggroll 10 May 2017
if you have any nvidia kernel modules in mkinitcpio.conf and have any nvidia kernel settings (such as nvidia-drm.modeset=1), try removing them then re-run mkinitcpio -P (or reinstall the driver package as it usually runs this anyway). I had to do this to get 381.09 beta drivers to work in arch
I'm pretty sure it's a bad combo of the new nvidia drivers + the settings I had on my previous nvidia-settings + my older kernel (the original one packed with 18.1 cinnamon) + cinnamon itself.
Seems like it's a common issue with cinnamon, so when I get home from work I'm going to stick XFCE on there and see how that fares, and if that works ok then I'll update my kernel (pretty sure that'll fix it) and try cinnamon again.
If that doesn't work I'll try installing 381.22 manually (Which I used to do, but after I added the nvidia PPA I got lazy with Mint's driver manager as, before now, had always worked flawlessly).
I've been told more recently that mint isn't as good as it used to be and the devs sometimes can't keep packages maintained properly. Not what I know, nor fact, nor am I aiming to offend, just what I've been told by a few friends. Better off going with one of the *buntu suites for now if you want to stay debian based and have stability, but then again wiping and reinstalling things is never fun. Another solid choice for stability might be Fedora 25. Arch and Antergos are bleeding edge and are great for me, but you do have to troubleshoot often when package updates go awry (albeit not very often)
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