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Finally, after waiting for a few months NVIDIA has released a new mainline driver which includes Transform Feedback support. Previously, you had to use their special Vulkan beta driver to get it.

The "VK_EXT_transform_feedback" extension is one that was made especially for helping support translation layers from other 3D APIs. In our case, it helps DXVK plus Wine (and so Valve's Steam Play) with certain Windows games when run on Linux.

Additionally, this 415.22 release also adds in the fixed-up support for Unity games not working and solves a build failure with the Linux Kernel 4.20 release candidates. 

If you're on Ubuntu, keep an eye on this PPA where it should land in the next few days for easy installation and updating. I just hope the PPA doesn't break Vulkan again when updating like it did recently. I've sent the maintainers of that PPA a message to notify them of the new release.

For other distributions, you likely already know where to look. For those installing manually, see the NVIDIA website.

Hat tip to bird_or_cage.

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mrdeathjr Dec 7, 2018
Piers Daniell from nvidia said this:

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/267#issuecomment-445031988

Heads up to folks on this thread.

We just released the 415.22 mainline driver at the
usual place https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html.

This contains a fix for Unity games running under
Proton/Wine and also supports VK_EXT_transform_feedback.

Enjoy.

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 7 December 2018 at 10:58 pm UTC
Tim Dec 7, 2018
Nice. Available in Fedora Rawhide already http://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=9623 Now it possible to upgrade for Nvidia users.
dibz Dec 7, 2018
Yay, I was just thinking about sending them a heads up to get an update and then I see this.
mmm...
I wonder if this is the reason why Proton wasn't updated in a month.
mrdeathjr Dec 7, 2018
mmm...
I wonder if this is the reason why Proton wasn't updated in a month.

Maybe can related with faudio because them stay very active and them stay testing faudio with proton

https://github.com/FNA-XNA/FAudio/issues/59

^_^
kean Dec 7, 2018
Hmm, New NV and Wine :) I will have to test if Rust became playable or not :)


Last edited by kean on 7 December 2018 at 9:07 pm UTC
jens Dec 7, 2018
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Peter daniels from nvidia said this:

You got his name somewhat wrong.
https://github.com/pdaniell-nv
mrdeathjr Dec 7, 2018
Peter daniels from nvidia said this:

You got his name somewhat wrong.
https://github.com/pdaniell-nv

Fixed

Thanks

^_^
Beamboom Dec 7, 2018
"keep an eye on this PPA" ¬> what PPA?
Leeo97one Dec 7, 2018
"keep an eye on this PPA" ¬> what PPA?
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa


Last edited by Leeo97one on 7 December 2018 at 11:13 pm UTC
Avehicle7887 Dec 7, 2018
Hmm, New NV and Wine :) I will have to test if Rust became playable or not :)

Now let's sprinkle over some DXVK seasoning and we got an amazing weekend ahead of us :D
Liam Dawe Dec 8, 2018
"keep an eye on this PPA" ¬> what PPA?
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Woops, fixed.
massatt212 Dec 8, 2018
steam glxchoosevisual failed
With this driver is their any by pass when installing this driver manually ?
igimenez Dec 8, 2018
Hi! i'm running the 396 driver, it's work fine and i have no problems. it's worth to upgrade to another one? the new drivers are significant better in speed or power consumption?
I wonder why this driver in not yet available at Ubuntu ppa?
jens Dec 9, 2018
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I wonder why this driver in not yet available at Ubuntu ppa?

“Patience you must have my young padawan” ;)
Liam Dawe Dec 9, 2018
I wonder why this driver in not yet available at Ubuntu ppa?
The PPA team is aware, they also have jobs as well (this isn't their job), so updates to the PPA are essentially whenever they have free time to do so.

Honestly, I would like to see Ubuntu have something more official for this in future.


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 9 December 2018 at 7:46 pm UTC
Corben Dec 10, 2018
I'm wondering... does the Vulkan version (e.g. shown by the DXVK overlay) not correlate with the driver version? I thought so. And if so, it seems that the newer nvidia driver comes with an older Vulkan version?

  • driver 396.54.09 shows Vulkan 1.1.85

  • driver 415.22.0 shows Vulkan 1.1.84


At least I've seen this on twitch videos, and I'm not sure if I'm missing something here?


Last edited by Corben on 10 December 2018 at 2:46 pm UTC
mrdeathjr Dec 10, 2018
I'm wondering... does the Vulkan version (e.g. shown by the DXVK overlay) not correlate with the driver version? I thought so. And if so, it seems that the newer nvidia driver comes with an older Vulkan version?

  • driver 396.54.09 shows Vulkan 1.1.85

  • driver 415.22.0 shows Vulkan 1.1.84


At least I've seen this on twitch videos, and I'm not sure if I'm missing something here?

Curiously with 415.18.04 appears this

![](https://i.imgur.com/hqOabfl.png)

^_^
iiari Dec 10, 2018
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Got this on Manjaro testing yesterday, and finally Proton is working again. Thanks to all involved in the fix!!
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