Along with the release of the GeForce RTX 2080 GPU series NVIDIA have put out a new 410.57 driver to support it. Additionally, there's a new Vulkan beta driver which should help DXVK.
What's new in the 410.57 driver?
- Adds support for GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080 and some Tesla cards.
- A new on-screen HUD to show which graphics API a game is using
- Implemented support for Vulkan real-time ray tracing extensions
- Various bug fixes
See the changelog for 410.57 here.
Then we also have the 396.54.06 Vulkan beta driver, this adds in support for two Vulkan extension:
On top of that though, it also includes a fix primarily aimed at issues running Windows games on Linux with DXVK. Specifically, an issue with a "z-fighting" corruption issue in multiple games. More info on that can be found in this bug report.
Really good to see NVIDIA also pushing out some good fixes for DXVK and Steam Play as well as supporting their newest GPUs right away.
I usually check for release availability on the CLI:
apt policy nvidia-settings
Yup, stick to that PPA if you want the beta Vulkan drivers.
I JUST changed to 396.54.05 literally yesterday.
EDIT: actually, no. The bug is tricky, I tried to record a video and it disappeared and hasn't surfaced yet even after several days. I used to have it right after starting the game if some character calls me and now it's just gone. It's been confirmed even by a Valve developer but suddenly after that became hard to reproduce.
Last edited by rkfg at 26 September 2018 at 7:07 am UTC
Last edited by rcgamer at 22 September 2018 at 5:06 am UTC
If you absolutely can't wait,
Download the driver
press control+alt+f1 to get out of the graphical interface
sudo purge nvidia*
sudo service lightdm stop (may be mdm or gdm on ubuntu) Im on mint.
sudo apt-get build-essential (may not be necessary but since I updated my kernel I had to )
now either cd to where the driver is or you put the whole path in the next command
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-*
it will probably give an error about config file just press continue installation
when it asks to build dkms I put no
when it asks if you want to install 32 bit library say yes
when it asks to write to xorg.conf say no
when it's done reboot.
You're free to build PPAs at weekends.