Article category: NVIDIA - page 15

NVIDIA has confirmed a driver bug resulting in a loss of performance on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2017

It seems there's a performance bug in recent NVIDIA drivers that has been causing a loss of performance across likely all GPUs.

NVIDIA 387.22 driver released, adds support for the GTX 1070Ti and more

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2017

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The latest NVIDIA driver release 387.22 is now out. It brings in support for the new GTX 1070Ti card and more.

NVIDIA has released the 375.82 and 384.59 drivers

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jul 2017

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NVIDIA have released two driver updates recently, 375.82 and 384.59 both with plenty of fixes and new GPU support.

NVIDIA 384.47 beta driver released, includes a fix for newer Feral titles

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2017

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NVIDIA have released the 384.47 beta driver and it includes support for more GPUs and it has a fair amount of bug fixes. One notable bug fix is that it fixes an issue with newer Feral games.

NVIDIA 381.22 driver released with lots of bug fixes and newer Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2017

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NVIDIA have released their 381.22 driver which comes with plenty of fixes, newer Vulkan support and more.

NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster

By Liam Dawe, 6 Apr 2017

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Based on their Pascal architecture, NVIDIA has announced their top-end GPU the 'TITAN Xp' and it's an absolute monster of a card.

NVIDIA might have more open drivers in future on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2017

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Here’s an interesting one, a developer from NVIDIA noted on the Linux Kernel Mailing List that NVIDIA has been designing some new open source drivers. So I did some digging and got an interesting response.

New NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver released, fixing SteamVR problems

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

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NVIDIA have released another beta of their Vulkan driver, which includes a fix for a major problem with SteamVR.

NVIDIA have announced the 1080 Ti and it's a beast

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

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NVIDIA have let a few details out on the 1080 Ti and it sounds like an absolute power-house of a GPU.

Vulkan API 1.0.42 released, new NVIDIA beta drivers released to go with it

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

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Vulkan 1.0.42 seems like a much bigger release than usual, NVIDIA have also release their 375.27.12 beta Vulkan driver to fit in the new extensions from this Vulkan release.

NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2017

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NVIDIA has release the 378.13 stable driver which directly follows on from their work on the 378.09 beta driver.

NVIDIA 378.09 beta driver released, adds OpenGL threaded optimizations by default and more

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2017

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A pretty interesting NVIDIA beta driver has landed and it officially enables their OpenGL threaded optimizations by default.

OpenGL 4.3 now available in Mesa for nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2017

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Samuel Pitoiset (Valve developer) just put some fresh work into Mesa-git that enables OpenGL 4.3 with nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above.

How To: An update on fixing screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

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My original guide on how to help fix screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU is a bit dated, so here’s an even easier way.

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NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

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NVIDIA has put out what they call 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan. Looks like it's under a BSD-style license too.

Nvidia 375.26, 340.101 and 304.134 driver releases are now available

By Liam Dawe, 14 Dec 2016

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Nvidia have pushed out three new driver updates today. One for their latest stable branch and two for older hardware.

The next driver release from NVIDIA will support using Vulkan without needing the X11 on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 6 Dec 2016

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It seems NVIDIA are preparing a new driver update that will enable the use of Vulkan without needing X11.

Wargame: European Escalation works once again for Nvidia users, two years after breaking

By Liam Dawe, 11 Sep 2016

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It seems Wargame: European Escalation was broken for nearly two years for Nvidia GPU users on Linux. The recent Nvidia 370.28 driver seems to have fixed it.