NVIDIA have released two driver updates recently, 375.82 and 384.59 both with plenty of fixes and new GPU support.
The 384.59 driver carries forward work done in the earlier beta driver release at the end of last month and adds in these additional fixes:
See the changelog forum topic here.
Then there's the 375.82 driver release for those sticking with it, which brings in more of the same.
I personally tend to wait a while before updating my GPU driver to see if anyone sees any more issues, although I am now quite behind on the 381.22 driver, now looks to be a good time to update. If you're on Ubuntu you can use this PPA.
It's usually worthwhile updating, especially since newer Feral ports tend to need later drivers. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The 384.59 driver carries forward work done in the earlier beta driver release at the end of last month and adds in these additional fixes:
- Fixed a bug that prevented changes to stereo eye assignment from getting applied from the nvidia-settings control panel.
- Fixed a bug that caused S4 suspend (also known as "hibernate") to hang during suspend when SLI was enabled.
- Fixed a bug where devices would not be properly enumerated by the Vulkan driver. See the "Known Issues" section of the README for more details.
- Fix a bug with GLX_EXT_buffer_age where incorrect buffer age values would be reported for SLI AFR configurations. In such configurations buffer age may now be greater than 3, the previous maximum buffer age.
- Fixed a bug that could cause hanging and Xids when performing RandR transforms with Overlay and SLI enabled.
- Extended the information reported by the NVIDIA Xinerama X extension to report PRIME displays in addition to directly-connected displays.
- Fixed a bug that caused HDMI audio devices to appear or disappear inconsistently when HDMI devices were hotplugged or unplugged.
See the changelog forum topic here.
Then there's the 375.82 driver release for those sticking with it, which brings in more of the same.
I personally tend to wait a while before updating my GPU driver to see if anyone sees any more issues, although I am now quite behind on the 381.22 driver, now looks to be a good time to update. If you're on Ubuntu you can use this PPA.
It's usually worthwhile updating, especially since newer Feral ports tend to need later drivers. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I just stepped into the reddit thread concerning this topic.
There was aaronp from nvidia commenting there.
There was aaronp from nvidia commenting there.
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I just stepped into the reddit thread concerning this topic.
There was aaronp from nvidia commenting there.
Are there any comments on terrible optimus support in 2017?
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lucifertdark 25 Jul 2017
I've just updated from the previous driver & the intermittent screen tearing I was seeing in Firefox appears to be gone with 384.59.
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Are there any comments on terrible optimus support in 2017?PRIME with synchronization works great. Try it.
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Are there any comments on terrible optimus support in 2017?
Yeah, where is our DRI_PRIME=1 support, nvidia!? My Twitter bot's waiting!
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Mountain Man 26 Jul 2017
Why is Nvidia maintaining two active driver releases for Linux? What's the benefit of using the 375 driver over 384?
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Comandante Ñoñardo 26 Jul 2017
Why is Nvidia maintaining two active driver releases for Linux? What's the benefit of using the 375 driver over 384?
The 384 added support for the following GPUs:
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce MX150
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It's just with me or you guys are having issues when trying to play Dota 2 with -vulkan enabled?
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Are there any comments on terrible optimus support in 2017?PRIME with synchronization works great. Try it.
The problem goes deeper than that for me unfortunately :( I never got HDMI sound to work even when using pure Nvidia card. My laptop also keeps overheating eventhough I have it on IntelHD. Their optimus support at least for my device is just shite. It is possible that they fix3d it a littlebit with newer devices, but you can still use HDMI only when having the specific GPU on, so many limitations and they don't do ANYTHING in order to improve it.
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Well, you should upgrade anyway as these releases fix critical security issues including privilege escalation. This is probably the most important bit of information here but the article is sadly missing it. :'(
More info there :
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4525
Last edited by gojul on 26 Jul 2017 at 12:00 pm UTC
More info there :
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4525
Last edited by gojul on 26 Jul 2017 at 12:00 pm UTC
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In this driver version with wine 2.13 staging red faction guerilla DX11 works
View video on youtube.com
^_^
View video on youtube.com
^_^
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lucifertdark 9 Aug 2017
is it true that the 384 branch has heating issues?I haven't noticed any overheating problems with the 384 drivers yet, I did get a fair bit of heat with the 375 drivers.
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