NVIDIA today just released a big new stable driver for Linux with 450.57. It pulls in a whole bunch of big features from the recent 450.51 Beta.
Compared with the Beta, it looks like it's mostly the same plus a few extra fixes. However, it's worth a reminder now it's stable because everyone should be able to upgrade knowing it's a supported driver version. NVIDIA 450.57 is exciting for a few reasons. One of which is the inclusion of support for NVIDIA NGX, which brings things like DLSS to their Linux drivers.
There's also now Image Sharpening support for OpenGL and Vulkan, support for Vulkan direct-to-display on DisplayPort displays which are connected via DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport (DP-MST), various VDPAU improvements, PRIME enhancements like support for PRIME Synchronization when using displays driven by the x86-video-amdgpu driver as PRIME display offload sinks along with "Reverse PRIME" support too.
On the bug fix side, one of the big ones is that is should be a smoother Wayland experience as NVIDIA fixed a bug that could cause a KDE Plasma session to crash when running under Wayland. They also fixed a bug that prevented X11 EGL displays from being reinitialized. Another KDE issue was also solved, as after some investigation the NVIDIA team found that KDE panels freezing when compositing was disabled was a problem in their driver so that was fixed too.
See the release notes here.
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... So now the stable version jumps from 440.100 to 450.57? The Nvidia version numbers really confuse me. What happened to the ten main version numbers in between?
Last edited by Beamboom on 9 July 2020 at 2:53 pm UTC
Last edited by Beamboom on 9 July 2020 at 2:53 pm UTC
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yea that is very confusing you go from 100 down to 57.i would think the distros should be able to pick that up just fine hopefully when the updates come down.but nice to see dlss.but fortunally for me im going to a 5700xt
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yea that is very confusing you go from 100 down to 57.
That part is fine, it's just the 57th subversion 450 vs. the 100th. subversion of 440.
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Avehicle7887 Jul 9, 2020
In case anyone's wondering about Vulkan in this release, this version comes with Vulkan spec up to 1.2.133. Whereas with the Beta driver (currently 440.66.17) Vulkan is at 1.2.145.
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Projectile Vomit Jul 9, 2020
I'm still wrestling with this damn Nvidia/Intel hybrid thing. I switched, recently, to Manjaro (KDe- I love KDe. Leave me alone.) and have never seen this hybrid thing until now. I tried switching to just the Nvidia 440 drivers, and rebooting did not give me the desired results. I am the guy who simply decided to reformat (after backing up everything using a liveUSB), when I mess up the graphics. I have never been very good at recovering a system from a graphics issue. So I reformatted with Manjaro (I get better results with my music production than from other distros, which may have something to do with the hybrid video drivers, as Nvidia is known not to play nice with audio production, but I'm not entirely sure). I am back at the hybrid drivers and, for now, I'm leaving them. Music production is a bit more important to me than games, at least on this computer (my only computer, at this time). I hope a switch that doesn't have me altering files and jumping through hoops comes along soon.
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The changes needed for RDR2 are not in this release https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3291#issuecomment-656278495
I hope it wont take another major version until that happens. Fortunately my backlog of games is still filled :)
I hope it wont take another major version until that happens. Fortunately my backlog of games is still filled :)
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nvidia better ramp up their shit or (after forever) my next card in december will be AMD. 
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I'm okay with my AMD 5700 XT. Nvidia gave me so many issues in the past and their cards are very expensive here in Brazil.
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Luke_Nukem Jul 9, 2020
I'm okay with my AMD 5700 XT. Nvidia gave me so many issues in the past and their cards are very expensive here in Brazil.
dude, sorry if I contradict everybody on the interweb, torvalds include. but I love Nvidia on linux so far. Nevertheless, I assume AMD is doing a better job since... 2 years?
at least I already switched to an AMD processor and I hope that I will not regret buying AMD graphics card again
PS: X1900XT was not OK, AMD
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Avehicle7887 Jul 9, 2020
In their own way Nvidia's Linux support is pretty good, and I've been mostly trouble free. There are however a few things which affect me and I also dislike, nominally having to re-install the driver after a kernel update (and I do those a lot), then there's the occasional issue with the driver refusing to install on latest kernels (my Nvidia system is still at kernel 5.5.19 cause of that).
Having said that, I can feel myself leaning towards an AMD GPU in the future. My secondary system is running with the RX 5500XT, it performs great and I have no issues whatsoever with it. Happily running Kernel 5.7.8 + Mesa 20.1.3.
Having said that, I can feel myself leaning towards an AMD GPU in the future. My secondary system is running with the RX 5500XT, it performs great and I have no issues whatsoever with it. Happily running Kernel 5.7.8 + Mesa 20.1.3.
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slaapliedje Jul 9, 2020
Funny thing is, beyond some specific distributions (like Pop_OS that just works out of the box), the most hassle free experience I've had with Linux and accelerated graphics drivers has been the Matrox Gxxx cards! Remember they used to just work fully out of the box, no binary blobs included (though I think it was a case of some features being in a firmware blob?).
Too bad they bailed out of the race to the fastest card, and just went with best display and MOAR monitors!
https://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_series/m9188pciex16/
8 screens on a single card.... *drool*
Too bad they bailed out of the race to the fastest card, and just went with best display and MOAR monitors!
https://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_series/m9188pciex16/
8 screens on a single card.... *drool*
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Reverse-prime still doesn't work as you'd expect. Exact same issues as here.
I was so exciting with the beta release and finally got calm down really quickly after first try. I can't understand how they let it landed in long term driver when we were a few to point the issues on their forum.
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Would DLSS work with wine+vkd3d?No. DLSS is not built on top of D3D12, it's some proprietary garbage and someone would have to provide a shim library that behaves exactly like the Windows one from the game's point of view but communicates with the Linux driver instead.
Thing is, that's a bit hard to do with zero public documentation.
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oldrocker99 Jul 10, 2020
I have a RTX 2600 Super, which is inferior to the 5700XT. It's still pretty good, but some time I'll probably go 100% AMD.
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Luke_Nukem Jul 10, 2020
A game I usually test with each driver version is Wreckfest, it seems to have doubled in performance with this driver version.
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TheRiddick Jul 10, 2020
RTX finally coming to Proton hopefully, maybe dream of playing CP2077 under linux with all the bells and whistles will happen. (if you have NVIDIA card).
I'm still hopeful NAVI 2x cards will have great value, we will see. If they get 16GB VRAM then it may be enough to convince me to diverge. I'm quite excited about the future of DLSS because lots of other industries are noticing the huge benefits to such technology (VR or mobile phones for example). AMD has been basically MIA when it comes to DLSS akin tech (don't you dare say CAS sharpening filter!)
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I'm still hopeful NAVI 2x cards will have great value, we will see. If they get 16GB VRAM then it may be enough to convince me to diverge. I'm quite excited about the future of DLSS because lots of other industries are noticing the huge benefits to such technology (VR or mobile phones for example). AMD has been basically MIA when it comes to DLSS akin tech (don't you dare say CAS sharpening filter!)
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furaxhornyx Jul 10, 2020
I'm still wrestling with this damn Nvidia/Intel hybrid thing. I switched, recently, to Manjaro (KDe- I love KDe. Leave me alone.) and have never seen this hybrid thing until now. I tried switching to just the Nvidia 440 drivers, and rebooting did not give me the desired results. I am the guy who simply decided to reformat (after backing up everything using a liveUSB), when I mess up the graphics. I have never been very good at recovering a system from a graphics issue. So I reformatted with Manjaro (I get better results with my music production than from other distros, which may have something to do with the hybrid video drivers, as Nvidia is known not to play nice with audio production, but I'm not entirely sure). I am back at the hybrid drivers and, for now, I'm leaving them. Music production is a bit more important to me than games, at least on this computer (my only computer, at this time). I hope a switch that doesn't have me altering files and jumping through hoops comes along soon.
While Manjaro runs fine on my desktop (no hybrid), I had the same problem than you with my MSI laptop. I finally installed Linux Mint on it, and it works ok. I haven't tried making music on it though.
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