Linux Gaming

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.