NVIDIA 396.54 Linux Driver Offers Big Performance Boost For Frequent Gamers

[perpetually high]

Don't post while high.

Look up perpetually; it means high all the time. And it doesn't affect my linux skills. (in fact maybe even enhances them!)

All in all, you're not _wrong_ but it's not a battle worth fighting for. MIchael could've worded the subject better, that's true. Other than that, nothing to see here folks.

[coder]

All in all, you're not _wrong_ but it's not a battle worth fighting for. MIchael could've worded the subject better, that's true. Other than that, nothing to see here folks.

Thanks for saying that. Peace.

[Tom50]

Sounds good, I'm running a GTX 950 on driver 390.48 for Ubuntu 18.04. I wonder if these updates get fed through in the standard Ubuntu updates, since I went to 18.04 I haven't had any Nvidia updates at all. I suspect I might have to manually opt to have these delivered to me. Anyway - it can only be good news. I've had performance issues with Rise of The Tomb Raider and the boost looks very nice.

[coder]

Sounds good, I'm running a GTX 950 on driver 390.48 for Ubuntu 18.04. I wonder if these updates get fed through in the standard Ubuntu updates, since I went to 18.04 I haven't had any Nvidia updates at all. I suspect I might have to manually opt to have these delivered to me.

First, it seems the 396 branch is no omission from this page - the package doesn't exist.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

Second, I see neither Ubuntu 18.04 nor 396.54 drivers, here:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1710/x86_64/

I'm not running 18.04, so I haven't paid attention to their stance on support for it.

As I recall, you can download their installer and it gives an option to create .deb files, rather than to install directly.

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/137211/en-us