https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/205464/en-us/

Release Highlights:

  • Added support for the VK_EXT_memory_priority, and VK_EXT_pageable_device_memory extensions for Turing+ GPUs.
  • Improved the performance of Minecraft Java Edition on RTX 3000 series GPUs.
  • Fixed a memory leak in the NVIDIA GLX driver, as reported at: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/222697
  • Added support for driving very high pixel clock mode timings such as 8K @ 60Hz. Please see the “MaxOneHardwareHead” X11 ModeValidation token in the README for details.
  • Extended Dynamic Boost support on notebooks to include older Renoir and Cezanne chipsets, in addition to Rembrandt and newer AMD chipsets.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Vulkan X11 swapchain creation to fail on GPUs without a display engine when the VK_KHR_present_id extension is used.
  • Fixed console restore on legacy VGA consoles when using the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules.
  • Added nvoptix.bin to the driver package. This data file is used by the OptiX ray tracing engine library, libnvoptix.so.1.
  • Removed libnvidia-compiler.so.VERSION from the driver package. This functionality is now provided by other driver libraries.
  • Added power usage and power limits information to nvidia-settings PowerMizer page.
  • Updated NV_CTRL_GPU_POWER_SOURCE NV-CONTROL API to report undersized power source.
  • Add support for version 4 of the linux-dmabuf wayland protocol.
  • Added NV-CONTROL attributes NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_MULTIPLY_DIVIDE_MODE and NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_MULTIPLY_DIVIDE_VALUE to allow syncing a Quadro Sync II card to different House Sync signal rates. This feature requires firmware version 2.18 or later; to download the latest firmware version, please visit: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/firmware/quadro-sync-firmware-driver/
  • Added support for the VK_KHR_video_queue, VK_KHR_video_decode_queue, VK_KHR_video_decode_h264 and VK_KHR_video_decode_h265 extensions.
  • Added an application profile to avoid performance problems in Xfce 4 when the OpenGL compositor backend is enabled along with G-SYNC.
  • Added support for suspend and resume when using GSP firmware.
  • Moved the nvidia-settings application icon into the ‘hicolor’ icon theme, which allows it to be customized by other icon themes selected in the desktop environment.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented PRIME render offload from working for Wayland applications when running on a system with an AMD iGPU.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented nvidia-installer from recording kernel log output to the installer log in some module loading failure paths.
  • Changed nvidia-installer to no longer use the $XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable. XDG data files are now installed to a path specified by the --xdg-data-dir option, or /usr/share if not specified.
  • This fixes a problem when Flatpak is installed that caused the installer to place the nvidia-settings.desktop file in /root/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications.
  • Changed the behavior of glXGetRefreshRateSGI() for non-integer refresh rates to round to the nearest whole number rather than truncating.
  • Changed the compression format of the .run installer package from xz to zstd. This results in a smaller compressed package, and faster decompression performance. A fallback zstd decompressor is embedded into the installer package for systems which do not already have a zstd decompression program installed.
  • Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-installer to mistakenly unload some already loaded non-NVIDIA kernel modules.
  • Fixed a bug which caused incorrect reporting of presentation times when using the VK_NV_present_barrier Vulkan extension.
  • Fixed a bug that caused modesets to fail in some Wayland configurations.
  • Fixed a bug that caused head-mounted displays (HMDs) to display black after a modeset.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented SLI Mosaic controls from being displayed in the nvidia-settings control panel when using GSP Firmware.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause image corruption when unbinding Vulkan sparse textures.
  • Fixed a bug that caused modesets to fail in some Wayland configurations.
  • Fixed a bug that caused head-mounted displays (HMDs) to display black after a modeset.
    • RandomDudeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The 2 main things keeping me on X11 is G-sync not working and a sleep bug. I really hope these get fixed soon

      • luki1051@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah me too.

        Gsync does kinda work on Wayland KDE, when just using one screen. But it’s double the framerate of the game and for some reason still very stuttery. Though I think I read, that Xwayland doesn’t support explicit sync, while Nvidia doesn’t support implicit sync or something. Maybe I’m wrong

    • silent_clash@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I spotted this in the patch notes, hopefully that’s it.

      Fixed a bug that caused modesets to fail in some Wayland configurations.

      • luki1051@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You couldn’t use Wayland when the refresh rate of your monitor was set to something higher that 120hz. The screen just stayed black. I’m using KDE, maybe Gnome didn’t have that problem

        • Tabascl@feddit.deOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s weird, I’m also using KDE with a 3080 on Arch, and never had that problem. Maybe it’s card dependent?

        • EccTMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Haven’t faced that issue personally on Gnome at least. (Arch, Nvidia GTX 1080, 1080p 144Hz primary monitor & 4k 60hz secondary monitor)

  • Tabascl@feddit.deOPEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I can’t wait for the forced VSync fix (it sadly didn’t make it into this release, but will apparently be in the next one) and the wayland tearing protocol implementation, which has also seen quite a lot of activity recently.

    Hopefully Wayland will be viable as a daily driver on Nvidia hardware soon.

    • ReakDuckEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Right after I switched to AMD? I hope I still get get benefits out of it, Nvidia has Cuda which is nice but for me worthless when the desktop is sluggish and choppy with Nvidia

  • Teebeutel@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Man, playing Overwatch on my Odyssey G9 with 240 Hz on Nobara (Wayland). Good times! Now only thing I’m waiting for is HDR support.