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Ubuntu LTS releases (and so derivatives too) to get updated NVIDIA drivers without PPAs

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jul 2019

Good news everyone! Canonical will now be offering NVIDIA users up to date graphics drivers without the need to resort to a PPA or anything else.

NVIDIA have announced their new "GeForce RTX SUPER Series" lineup

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2019

NVIDIA today revealed their new lineup of graphics cards, a refresh of the current series called the “GeForce RTX SUPER Series” which includes the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER.

Quake II RTX to release June 6th, first 3 levels free for everyone and source code will be up too

By Liam Dawe, 27 May 2019

NVIDIA have announced that Quake II RTX, the ray-traced remaster of Quake II is going to release in full with Linux support on June 6th.

NVIDIA 430.14 driver released, DiRT 4 and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Steam Play) get improvements

By Liam Dawe, 14 May 2019

NVIDIA today pushed out the 430.14 stable driver, it comes with a few notable improvements but it's quite a small release overall.

NVIDIA are continuing to work on PRIME GPU offloading, with a new GLX Extension

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2019

Something I wrote about last year, was that NVIDIA were working towards better supporting NVIDIA Optimus on Linux. Seems like another step is being made towards that end.

NVIDIA have two new drivers out with 430.09 and the Vulkan beta driver 418.52.05

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2019

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.

NVIDIA have released the 418.43 driver, includes support for the just released GeForce GTX 1660

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2019

Two bits of NVIDIA news for you today, not only have they released a new stable driver, they've also put out their latest GPU with the GTX 1660.

NVIDIA has a new Vulkan beta driver, fixes for Hitman 2 with DXVK and Total War Warhammer II

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2019

NVIDIA have again pushed out a brand new Vulkan beta driver, with version 418.31.03 now available with game fixes and new extensions.

NVIDIA have put out a new Linux beta driver with support for 'G-SYNC Compatible monitors'

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jan 2019

NVIDIA have today put out their latest beta driver for Linux with quite a bit new and it sounds quite exciting.

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An update on the situation with NVIDIA graphical distortions in some Unity games on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2019

Recently, I highlighted an issue in multiple Unity games where the graphics were distorted on Linux with using an NVIDIA GPU and I offered some workarounds. I now have an update on the issue to share from both Unity and NVIDIA.

NVIDIA to support VESA Adaptive Sync with 'G-SYNC Compatible' branding

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2019

As a bit of a win for everyone, NVIDIA have announced that they will be supporting VESA Adaptive Sync.

NVIDIA have put out a new Vulkan beta driver with better pipeline creation performance

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2019

It seems to be a busy weekend! NVIDIA have put out a new version of their Vulkan beta driver and it's an interesting one.

NVIDIA have put out the 410.93 driver for Linux today

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2019

Arriving today, NVIDIA have their first bug-fix release of the year with the 410.93 driver as part of their longer supported series.

There's another (better) workaround for the Unity graphical glitches with NVIDIA on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2018

Recently, I wrote a post about Unity games when playing on NVIDIA having some major graphical glitches with a workaround. Here's another one, that might work better.

NVIDIA released the 415.22.01 Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2018

Yesterday, NVIDIA again updated their special beta Vulkan driver pushing it to version 415.22.01 with various improvements.

Have graphical distortions in Unity games with NVIDIA? Here's a workaround

By Liam Dawe, 10 Dec 2018

It seems a lot of Unity games upgrading to later versions of Unity are suffering from graphical distortions on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU. There is a workaround available.