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The first release of the 590 driver branch has arrived in Beta for Linux with 590.44.01 now available for those willing to give it a test. For those of you with an NVIDIA GPU that need the most stable experience, you should probably stick with driver 580.105.08 from early November.

Here's the full changelog provided by NVIDIA:

  • Raised the minimum supported Wayland version to 1.20.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the PowerMizer preferred mode dropdown menu in the nvidia-settings control panel from functioning correctly on Wayland.
  • Raised the minimum supported glibc version to 2.27.
  • Improved the performance of recreating Vulkan swapchains. This helps prevent stuttering when resizing Vulkan application windows.
  • Raised the minimum supported X.Org xserver version to 1.17 (video driver ABI version 19).
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Dots Per Inch (DPI) to be incorrectly reported for some monitors such as the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9.
  • Fixed several problems that prevented Vulkan applications from working on Venus VirtIO virtual GPU.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause system freezes on PREEMPT_RT kernels.

Source: NVIDIA

Does this Beta driver have a fix you've been waiting on? If not, what are you waiting on?

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Stella 51 minutes ago
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This driver won't support 10 series and earlier any more, correct? Then why are they still listed in the 'supported products' section on the Nvidia website?
Liam Dawe 49 minutes ago
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Either they're still going to support them this time, or they completely forgot to update their own documentation on it for Linux.
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