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NVIDIA 550.54.14 driver released as stable

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2024

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

By nwildner, 23 Feb 2024

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

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2024

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

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2024

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

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2024

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

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2023

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.

NVIDIA 545.29.06 Linux driver released with Source 2 game fix

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2023

NVIDIA has today released the 545.29.06 Linux stable driver. A small one with only a few useful sounding fixes.

Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK hits Vulkan 1.0 conformance

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2023

A big step for the in-development open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK, as Collabora have announced how it's hit Vulkan 1.0 conformance.

NVIDIA driver 545.29.02 out for Linux plus other releases due to security issues

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2023

NVIDIA today launched four new stable Linux graphics drivers, yes four. 545.29.02 is the bigger one with all the new stuff, but they also launched 535.129.03, 525.147.05 and 470.223.02 due to newly disclosed security issues.

NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

After being a little quiet for a while, NVIDIA released Beta driver 545.23.06 which includes a bunch of new features and a few bug fixes too.

NVIDIA looking to hook up Reflex support in Proton

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2023

An NVIDIA engineer has sent in pull requests to DXVK, VKD3D-Proton and DXVK-NVAPI to enable support for Reflex / NV low latency to get it hooked up in Proton.

DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 out now expanding HDR support

By Liam Dawe, 11 Sep 2023

DXVK-NVAPI is an alternative NVAPI (NVIDIA API) implementation used with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for running Windows games on Linux and Steam Deck through Proton.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 535.43.09 and stable 535.104.05 drivers out now

By Liam Dawe, 4 Sep 2023

NVIDIA recently released two fresh driver upgrades for Linux, although one of them we have no idea what they actually changed. Here's what's up.

NVIDIA posts NVAPI core software development kit on GitHub

By nwildner, 25 Aug 2023

NVAPI is NVIDIA's core software development kit that allows direct access to NVIDIA GPUs and drivers on supported platforms, and it's now been put up on GitHub.

NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 and Half-Life 2 RTX announced

By Liam Dawe, 22 Aug 2023

Today NVIDIA announced DLSS 3.5 further enhancing Ray Tracing and Half-Life 2 RTX was also announced. So let's go over the details.

Recent NVIDIA drivers are causing issues for Proton

By Liam Dawe, 18 Aug 2023

Have you been seeing some problems with the NVIDIA 535 driver series when trying to run Steam games on Linux with Proton? Well, you're not alone but investigations are under way. Here's what's happening.

NVIDIA driver 535.98 now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Aug 2023

NVIDIA GPU owners may want to go and grab some updates as driver 535.98 is out now. Here's a look over what's changed.

NVK the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA merged into Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 7 Aug 2023

Well, it happened! The open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs named NVK has been officially merged into Mesa.

Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver 'NVK' gears up for merging into Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2023

This is exciting as heck! Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand and various contributors have been powering through developing NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA.