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It seems there's a performance bug in recent NVIDIA drivers that has been causing a loss of performance across likely all GPUs. Not only that, but it seems to end up using more VRAM than previous drivers too.

User HeavyHDx started a thread on the official NVIDIA forum, to describe quite a big drop in performance since the 375 driver series. So all driver updates since then would have been affected by this.

NVIDIA themselves have now commented to confirm the issue. Here's what the NVIDIA rep said about it:

This likely matches a similar performance drop observed on another Feral game, Total War: WARHAMMER.
We've been tracking it internally as bug 1963500. There was a change, introduced in our r378 branch, to the logic of allocation of certain textures, but it apparently exposed a bug in our memory manager.
Our next release branch, r390, will carry a workaround, and we're still working on finding and fixing the root cause.

So it seems to affect at least Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Total War: WARHAMMER, Company of Hereos 2 and most likely a number of other titles too.

The same NVIDIA rep also said they aim to have the 390 driver series out before the end of the year, let's hope that doesn't come with its own problems! Great to know they are aware of it and that the next driver series will have a workaround to improve it, getting Linux game performance back on track is pretty important.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Tags: Drivers, NVIDIA
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salamanderrake Dec 2, 2017
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: oldgarolmaooo...good time to move away from NVIDIA!
Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is perfect. All software has bugs and regressions.

Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is a *competitor*. Leaving NVIDIA because of this bug is like ditching your car because you got a flat tire and instead using a skateboard.
Samsai Dec 2, 2017
Quoting: salamanderrake
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: oldgarolmaooo...good time to move away from NVIDIA!
Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is perfect. All software has bugs and regressions.

Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is a *competitor*. Leaving NVIDIA because of this bug is like ditching your car because you got a flat tire and instead using a skateboard.
In this day and age what you said is nothing but FUD. Please update your preconceptions.
salamanderrake Dec 3, 2017
Quoting: Samsai
Quoting: salamanderrake
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: oldgarolmaooo...good time to move away from NVIDIA!
Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is perfect. All software has bugs and regressions.

Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is a *competitor*. Leaving NVIDIA because of this bug is like ditching your car because you got a flat tire and instead using a skateboard.
In this day and age what you said is nothing but FUD. Please update your preconceptions.

When mesa updates their performance then I'll update preconceptions.
Samsai Dec 3, 2017
Quoting: salamanderrake
Quoting: Samsai
Quoting: salamanderrake
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: oldgarolmaooo...good time to move away from NVIDIA!
Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is perfect. All software has bugs and regressions.

Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is a *competitor*. Leaving NVIDIA because of this bug is like ditching your car because you got a flat tire and instead using a skateboard.
In this day and age what you said is nothing but FUD. Please update your preconceptions.

When mesa updates their performance then I'll update preconceptions.
It seems you're already out of date.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=16way-gpu-aug17&num=1

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nv-radeon-win10ubuntu&num=1
pete910 Dec 3, 2017
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Quoting: salamanderrake
Quoting: Samsai
Quoting: salamanderrake
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: oldgarolmaooo...good time to move away from NVIDIA!
Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is perfect. All software has bugs and regressions.

Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is a *competitor*. Leaving NVIDIA because of this bug is like ditching your car because you got a flat tire and instead using a skateboard.
In this day and age what you said is nothing but FUD. Please update your preconceptions.

When mesa updates their performance then I'll update preconceptions.

In ?

What card do you have now?

To be honest you are coming across as a bit anti Mesa/AMD with comments like that .

What was the last AMD card you have used on Linux with mesa out of interest ?
Basiani Dec 4, 2017
I wonder what will change for WINE games. Call of Duty Black Ops 1 has only 13FPS and Black Ops 2 only 25FPS on my laptop. There was more then 115FPS when I used Windows of caurse with vsync off, but today I'm not dual booting.
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