NVIDIA have just recently released two new drivers for Linux users, with the main series now being at 430.09 adding new GPU support and the Vulkan beta driver 418.52.05 giving ray-tracing to some older GPUs.
Firstly, the Vulkan beta driver 418.52.05 was actually released last week, which adds support for the "VK_NV_ray_tracing" extension for certain older graphics cards including the TITAN Xp, TITAN X, 1080, 1070, 1060, TITAN V and 1660 (along with Ti models). It also adds support for the "VK_NV_coverage_reduction_mode" extension, which doesn't seem to have any documentation up just yet. They also cited "minor performance improvements" and two bug fixes.
Additionally, just today NVIDIA also put out the mainline 430.09 driver to add support for the recently launched 1650 and 1660 models.
This driver also now has HEVC YUV 4:4:4 decode support to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver, along with support for creation of YUV 4:4:4 video surfaces in the NVIDIA VDPAU driver. On top of that this driver also now supports the GL_NV_vdpau_interop2 OpenGL extension, the nvidia installer has better support for openSUSE Leap 15 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 and they also upped the minimum supported X.Org xserver version to 1.7.
There's more, so do see the 430.09 release notes here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: PatolaQuoting: morbiusI'm still on 410 stable. Am I losing out on something important?Of course. dxvk's main features for example. Proper Vulkan support and the likes.
Ok, I switched to 418.56. So far, the only thing I can say is that XMR mining performance got absolutely wrecked. I'll try some video games to see if there are any noticeable improvements.
Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: axredneckAccording to this page https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1050666/b/t/post/5332260/#5332260 which was a little late appearing this time, it is a beta driver yeah.Quoting: serge418.52.05 is a beta release based on an older branch.418.52.05 is Vulkan beta
p.s. Is this 430.09 beta?
This driver numbers from NVIDIA always confuse me.
I now have to use the 430.09, because since my upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04, the 415.27 doesn`t work anymore.
I don't understand, if this is a driver is with Vulkan support or if this is a downstep for me. Is it worth investigating to get 415.27 running again? :S:
Quoting: einherjarTry the 418 driver, works fine for me on 19.04.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: axredneckAccording to this page https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1050666/b/t/post/5332260/#5332260 which was a little late appearing this time, it is a beta driver yeah.Quoting: serge418.52.05 is a beta release based on an older branch.418.52.05 is Vulkan beta
p.s. Is this 430.09 beta?
This driver numbers from NVIDIA always confuse me.
I now have to use the 430.09, because since my upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04, the 415.27 doesn`t work anymore.
I don't understand, if this is a driver is with Vulkan support or if this is a downstep for me. Is it worth investigating to get 415.27 running again? :S:
Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: einherjarTry the 418 driver, works fine for me on 19.04.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: axredneckAccording to this page https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1050666/b/t/post/5332260/#5332260 which was a little late appearing this time, it is a beta driver yeah.Quoting: serge418.52.05 is a beta release based on an older branch.418.52.05 is Vulkan beta
p.s. Is this 430.09 beta?
This driver numbers from NVIDIA always confuse me.
I now have to use the 430.09, because since my upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04, the 415.27 doesn`t work anymore.
I don't understand, if this is a driver is with Vulkan support or if this is a downstep for me. Is it worth investigating to get 415.27 running again? :S:
Thanks, that works also. But seems to make no difference to 430.09. But off course I didn't really test it within games.
Quoting: einherjarThis driver numbers from NVIDIA always confuse me.Also driver names from AMD always confuse people :P
fnordianslip Apr 27, 2019
I apt purged nvidia*, booted with nouveau driver, and then re-selected the 430.09 driver in system settings, but the boot failed in the same way again. I repeated that process, but installed the nvidia 418.56 driver that I had previously upgraded from, and things were good after a reboot again.
GPU here is a 980Ti.
Has anyone else here had similar issues?
Quoting: fnordianslipHas anyone else here had similar issues?
Yes same for me on a 1060 (mobile) on 16.04. I had to do the recovery mode dance and reinstall 415 instead.
I am was working well with kernel 5.0.6 and Vulkan driver 418.52.05 (the latest driver in https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver ).
But I updated to 5.1.2 (a lot of speculative fixes) and now the Vulkan driver don't compile good. I use always the .run driver.
I installed the 430.18 driver (compile good) but I only have Vulkan 1.1.99 (before was 1.1.107 with 418.52.05).
Someone is running the 418.52.05 with kernel 5.0.7+ ?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Only is built if I add the switches: --no-unified-memory --no-drm
With the 1st don't make the CUDA module and with the 2nd don't make DRM-KMS.
Someone knows any solution for kernels 5.0.7+?
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