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NVIDIA might have more open drivers in future on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2017

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.

Nvidia beta driver 370.23 has initial support for PRIME Synchronization

By Liam Dawe, 18 Aug 2016

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Nvidia has released the beta driver 370.23, the good news for multi-GPU users is that it features initial support for PRIME Synchronization.

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How to fix bodies not showing in Shadow of Mordor with Nvidia drivers temp fix

By Yomen Tohmaz, 9 Aug 2016

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Here's a way to fix missing bodies in the Linux port of Shadow of Mordor with Nvidia drivers. This is a temp fix until a patch is released.

VR Funhouse from Nvidia to be open sourced this summer

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2016

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VR Funhouse is currently a Windows only advanced VR game, but the interesting thing is that Nvidia claim they will open source it.

Nvidia 364.19 stable driver released, featuring Vulkan, Wayland & Mir support

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2016

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Not exactly too different from previous Nvidia 364.x drivers, but this now makes the Nvidia 364.19 driver throw off the beta label and is stable enough in their eyes.

Nvidia releases 364.16 Vulkan driver, improved Optimus support, improved multi-threaded scaling

By Liam Dawe, 9 Apr 2016

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Nvidia are really pushing hard on their Vulkan driver, and it's great to see them push out updates so quickly. We now have the 364.16 Vulkan driver ready for download.

Looks like Shadow of Mordor has bad graphical bugs with Nvidia 364.12

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2016

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Just a heads up, you might want to avoid Nvidia driver 364.12 is you play Shadow of Mordor (or want to play it soon). Nvidia have stated it's an issue Feral Interactive need to fix.

Nvidia 364.12 released for Linux with official Vulkan, Mir & Wayland support

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2016

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Well Nvidia dropped a bit of a big one today didn't they! Nvidia driver version 364.12 is now out and brings in official Vulkan support, Mir support and Wayland support.

Vulkan at GDC videos now up, with Valve talking about porting Source 2 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2016

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Two long and low quality videos from GDC are now up with Vulkan as the subject, all very interesting with Oxide Games (Ashes of the Singularity) and Valve speaking. I've done some highlights for you.

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