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.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Luke_Nukem Jul 9, 2020
Quoting: gustavoyaraujoI'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
Last edited by dude on 9 July 2020 at 10:27 pm UTC
Avehicle7887 Jul 9, 2020
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.
slaapliedje Jul 9, 2020
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*
Quoting: Luke_NukemReverse-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.
Jul 10, 2020
Quoting: ScienceWould 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.
oldrocker99 Jul 10, 2020
Luke_Nukem Jul 10, 2020
TheRiddick Jul 10, 2020
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!)
Last edited by TheRiddick on 10 July 2020 at 5:12 am UTC
furaxhornyx Jul 10, 2020
Quoting: Projectile VomitI'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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