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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?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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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?
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Liam Dawe 2 hours ago
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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No problems, so nothing in the changelog for me and nothing to really wait in the future except once the vulkan extension for descriptor_heap thing gets actually released and the driver with it comes out. DX12(vkd3d-proton) perf improvement thingy
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