NVIDIA have released the 410.57 driver as well as a 396.54.06 Vulkan beta driver to help DXVK

Even more so for linux users. Regardless of NVidias awesome day one support for the features, my magic crystal ball says that it's likely going to be at least 1-2 GPU generations till we see any game on linux making use of it. So yeah, not worth it.

I think we could eventually have the chance to play Metro: Exodus with RT on Linux, as they ported both their older titles on Linux, and they keep a good track of using the latest Linux technologies. As a reminder, Metro Redux was the first game to make use of OpenGL 4.X, and it is the only one to support nVidia PhysX on Linux, as far as I know.

Still, even if I love the Metro franchise and though I really want to play it, buying a card this expensive is simply out of question, so no RT and no 4K for me in the foreseeable future.

I played a few hours of it last night on Kubuntu with an i5-3570K and a 980 Ti. It worked straight out of the box on the latest SteamPlay beta version (whichever one that is right now). Performance was locked to 60fps most of the time with the "Very High" settings enabled. I'd give it a platinum rating if not for a few minor visual glitches that were very seldom, definitely at least gold status.

I'm a longtime Linux user, but I always booted back into Windows for games. So I'm not quite as seasoned as everyone else when it comes to drivers. I'm currently running 396.54 according to:
nvidia-smi

I installed my drivers from: ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
Is this the standard method or is there something else I should be doing to keep my drivers up to snuff for SteamPlay?

Thanks!

Thanks, will buy it once its on sale (my self imposed rule for buying non-native games).


396.54 should be up to date stable driver. I'm on 396.54-5, since I'm on Antergos, which is a bleeding edge distro.
If you plan using your PC for gaming, I recommend a bleeding edge distro to get the most up to date software and drivers automatically.

I'm familiar with Antergos KDE as I used to run it for awhile. I may switch back if Kubuntu doesn't keep me up to date fast enough. I also ran Solus for quite a long time on my laptop, but I never gamed with it.

Is there a tool involved with your graphics driver that you use or it simply updating via pacman? My main reason for Kubuntu (I like KDE) is that the SteamPlay community primarily runs Ubuntu (granted, followed by Arch), and they seem to give the most platinum/gold ratings.

how do i install NVIDIA 396.54.06 on Ubuntu or should i go with NVIDIA 410.57 (Im not sure is 410.57 have the beta updates of 396.54.06)

Since you're probably using the graphics-drivers PPA, just wait until the new driver is put into there. It should then be available as a separate option in the Driver Manager, or of course you can install it via the command line.

There's also the "Proprietary Development GPU Drivers" PPA by the same team that currently still has 396.54.05, but should update to .06 soon.

I'm familiar with Antergos KDE as I used to run it for awhile. I may switch back if Kubuntu doesn't keep me up to date fast enough. I also ran Solus for quite a long time on my laptop, but I never gamed with it.

Is there a tool involved with your graphics driver that you use or it simply updating via pacman? My main reason for Kubuntu (I like KDE) is that the SteamPlay community primarily runs Ubuntu (granted, followed by Arch), and they seem to give the most platinum/gold ratings.

No extra tool needed, it is simply included among other updates.

I had similar reasoning for using Ubuntu when it comes to native games, after all Ubuntu is often the only officially supported distro. However, the 16.04 LTS release was crashing on me and I had lot of issues with it, to a point I decided to drop it and try Antergos (Gnome DE) for my desktop. It was significant improvement (this might be due to the fact, that I run pretty recent hardware: GTX 1080 and Ryzen 5 1600) and I have been happy with it since. I don't think I ever encountered an Arch specific issue for any game, all issues I can remember were present on Ubuntu as well.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/nvidia-have-released-the-41057-driver-as-well-as-a-3965406-vulkan-beta-driver-to-help-dxvk.12596/comment_id=134643

I don't think it's because Nvidia or at least not directly. Linux architecture and used software aren't allowing for using Optimus cards like on Windows. However, I'm on Optimus Alienware 17 R3 laptop and it works quite nicely on Manjaro. For Vulkan support I use nvidia-xrun and I can't complain aside it's a bit hacky and requires few additional steps before launching Steam.

I wrote a guide for nvidia-xrun on bumblebee for Arch-based systems if someone is interested.

The raytracing stuff looks really cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RwQ7H_EBoM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTjTdnvEOE

Woud be nice if this would land at some point in Linux (DXVK ;)) too.

how do i install NVIDIA 396.54.06 on Ubuntu or should i go with NVIDIA 410.57 (Im not sure is 410.57 have the beta updates of 396.54.06)

Since you're probably using the graphics-drivers PPA, just wait until the new driver is put into there. It should then be available as a separate option in the Driver Manager, or of course you can install it via the command line.

There's also the "Proprietary Development GPU Drivers" PPA by the same team that currently still has 396.54.05, but should update to .06 soon.

I ran the files in terminal and in software update its still showing 390 and 396 alone
Should i purge and reinstall ?

Just wait a few days for it to be packaged in the PPA.

I usually check for release availability on the CLI:
apt policy nvidia-settings

It's great to see them pushing into this. Now give us proper Optimus-support and i'm eager to buy a laptop with an NVIDIA-GPU.

It's being worked on: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/nvidia-are-working-towards-better-support-for-nvidia-optimus-on-linux.12362

how do i install NVIDIA 396.54.06 on Ubuntu or should i go with NVIDIA 410.57 (Im not sure is 410.57 have the beta updates of 396.54.06)

Since you're probably using the graphics-drivers PPA, just wait until the new driver is put into there. It should then be available as a separate option in the Driver Manager, or of course you can install it via the command line.

There's also the "Proprietary Development GPU Drivers" PPA by the same team that currently still has 396.54.05, but should update to .06 soon.

Yup, stick to that PPA if you want the beta Vulkan drivers.

There's also the "Proprietary Development GPU Drivers" PPA by the same team that currently still has 396.54.05, but should update to .06 soon.

I ran the files in terminal and in software update its still showing 390 and 396 alone
Should i purge and reinstall ?

They only have a package per driver series, so nvidia-driver-396 is the right (meta)package to install. Current version in that PPA is 396.54.05.

396.54.06?

I JUST changed to 396.54.05 literally yesterday.

BTW, a nasty bug was fixed in this 410.57. In Nier:Automata there were huge (half of the screen) white circle flickers on radiotransmissions (around the holographic image), it happened with 396.54 and seems to be fixed after the update.

EDIT: actually, no. The bug is tricky, I tried to record a video and it disappeared and hasn't surfaced yet even after several days. I used to have it right after starting the game if some character calls me and now it's just gone. It's been confirmed even by a Valve developer but suddenly after that became hard to reproduce.


Last edited by rkfg on 26 September 2018 at 7:07 am UTC

@liamdawe, there's a typo in the title! "releasd"
^_^

This is what the "For spelling, grammar and other corrections to our article—click here" box above the comments is for.

Thanks Tuubi, I'm still as blind as a bat... and I don't mean the animal. :D

Finally, about a month later, it has arrived to Ubuntu.

Finally, about a month later, it has arrived to Ubuntu.

You're free to build PPAs at weekends.

Finally, about a month later, it has arrived to Ubuntu.

You're free to build PPAs at weekends.

Actually the PPA skipped 396.54.06 completely. Don't know why, not interested enough to ask. 396.54.09 on the other hand was added to the PPA with a delay of a single day, which should be good enough even for the impatient among us.