NVIDIA 555.42.02 Beta driver out bringing Wayland explicit sync
The driver release many NVIDIA fans have been waiting on is here today. NVIDIA released the NVIDIA 555.42.02 Beta driver with some necessary upgrades for Wayland support.
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NVK driver gets DRM Format Modifiers to work with Gamescope in Mesa 24.1
Just recently NVK, the open source Nvidia Vulkan driver, merged in a new Vulkan extension that is rather important and means it will work properly with Gamescope.
NVIDIA switching to open kernel modules by default in future driver update for Turing+
NVIDIA have announced some big changes are coming to their Linux drivers, which will start with the upcoming 560 series.
Valve graphics dev gets Gamescope working on NVK with Explicit Sync
Valve developers have done a lot of work over the years to improve AMD GPUs on Linux, and continue to do so with the Steam Deck using AMD and it seems like they're now getting stuck into NVIDIA too.
NVIDIA make it easier to get GeForce NOW on Steam Deck
Showing just how popular the Steam Deck is, NVIDIA are officially making it easier to get their cloud gaming service GeForce NOW on Steam Deck.
NVIDIA 550.78 released fixing issues for RTX 4xxx series GPUs notebooks
Towards the end of April, NVIDIA released the 550.78 driver and if you use a notebook with a RTX 4xxx series GPU you may want to update for this one.
Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK gets more enhancements
Developer Faith Ekstrand has written up a fresh blog post on Collabora which goes over implementing two extensions in NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver, and how it ended up fixing actual games.
NVIDIA developer contributing to the open source NVK driver
Another surprise from NVIDIA here. On top of one developer contributing to Nouveau, we have another developer now contributing to NVK.
Former Nouveau driver lead joins NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set
Ben Skeggs, former Nouveau lead developer and former Red Hat employee has joined NVIDIA and appears to still be working on the open source drivers.
KDE's Xaver Hugl on why Wayland explicit sync is such a big deal
You may have seen news recently about explicit sync for Wayland, but you might not know why it's actually important for the future of Linux on Wayland.
Nova, a Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs announced
Danilo Krummrich who is a Red Hat display driver team Software Engineer, announced the Nova project, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs.
NVIDIA driver 550.67 released fixes for VKD3D (Proton), Wayland and more
NVIDIA has today released a fresh stable bug-fix driver with version 550.67 now available for Linux. So here's all the changes you'll find.
Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time
The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default.
NVIDIA disclose new driver security issues - Feb 28
NVIDIA has revealed new GPU driver security issues in their latest bulletin, so here's what you need to know if you're using an NVIDIA GPU on Linux.
NVIDIA 550.54.14 driver released as stable
NVIDIA today launched the 550.54.14 Linux driver as stable coming with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements, so here's all that's changed.
NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs
A recent merge request on the Mesa Git repository added the initial support for allowing drivers to chose Zink as the translation layer for handling OpenGL.
NVIDIA 550.40.07 Beta driver released with fixes for VRR and Wayland
NVIDIA has today launched the 550.40.07 Beta driver for Linux which includes numerous important fixes, so you might want to jump in and give this one a thorough gaming test.
NVIDIA 535.154.05 for Linux brings a few bug fixes
NVIDIA released driver version 535.154.05 for Linux bringing with it a few useful sounding bug fixes, so here's what's new for the first NVIDIA update of 2024. NOTE: ARTICLE UPDATED.
NVIDIA reveal Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs
Much like AMD did today for CES 2024, much of NVIDIA's event was also all about AI but there's a few bits in there for normal consumers like the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs.
Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.
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