NVIDIA 396.54.02 Vulkan Beta Driver Brings Some Fixes For DXVK

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perpetually high I don' t blame you. The RX 480 looks like a great card it just runs a bit hot.

The card I had before my 1070 was a GTX 1050 ti before that a GTS 450, So I had a massive reason to upgrade. I usually don't move from something like a GTS 1050ti like I did to a 1070 though. I just wanted for the first time what I considered a really high end card.

I have been running nvidia for so long but am ready to drop nvidia next upgrade, which most likely will be quite a while from now. Unless they become open source with their drivers I will most likely get an AMD or Intel GPU next build.

Honestly, even though I can game likes its going out of style on Linux. I have my fair share of annoyances with it, even on what I would consider pretty high end hardware.

Compairing gaming experiences Windows 10 vs Linux. Windows 10 is vastly far superior by a long shot, both input performance and overall gaming performance, its silky smooth like glass even on the latest titles using the highest fidelity settings possible. Using reshade. One can't really take the full advantage of PC gaming without using reshade which Linux lacks.

Used reshade on several games knowing what I visually find very tasteful. Reshade is the way to go and there are very few games that won't run with it injected. My Skyrim SE in Windows 10 running reshade only 'my own custom built preset" looks better than anyone elses Skyrim modded.

I choose to mainly game in linux though, cause I feel much more at home with it.

Where as with windows 10 its like I am hanging out at walmart or bestbuy while gaming, its just too commercial feeling, but I am a natural born artist, we artists generally despise and loath commercial shit.

Linux distributions I consider artwork and are created out of generative passion. Which is what I like to keep company with as an OS 95% of the time.

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So I returned my GTX 1080 and I'm keeping my RX 480. Rejoice! Typed up my post here in this thread for those curious.

aufkrawall thanks again for the oc'ing pointers. Will look to revisit that today.

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mao_dze_dun yes and no. There are several things that factor in. In your case I would not recommend it. Unless you are not worried about messing up something and ready to start over. That never was the case pertaining to removing the distro's built drivers and building them manually with nvidias installer for me though I always figured out the dependencies, its not always cut and dry. You may also run into issues getting steam back up and running with correct corresponding libraries and having to re-run the installer.

I usually at least on my distro, download the nvidia driver, then sudo systemctl stop lightdm, then proceed from there with the installer to see what conditions need to be met. Blacklisting nouveau and nouveau related modules almost always follows that, then sudo update-initramfs.

Everytime I have installed Ubuntu Studio it has been different every time but I always figured out how to manually build the nvidia drivers and get steam working as well. Those are the biggest hurdles getting steam running after building and installing the driver.

The very first hurdle will be blacklisting the nouveau driver, second will be installing the deps for the nvidia installer to run and build the driver properly while finding and enabling 32bit libraries for glx for steam to execute and run its updates.

I used to use nothing but Slackware though. So some things are not too too difficult for me to resolve.

[mao_dze_dun]

If you are on a Ubuntu derivative I really recommend getting the nvidia installer working from nvidia itself. Of coarse this requires you to install the required corresponding kernel src, headers, modules and libraries used to build the driver but I feel its really worth it, so you don't have to wait for it to be added to your repos.

I have also had better performance building the driver using the nvidia installer as well. I don't know why that is but it is.

Shouldn't performance be the same in either case? Btw they added it to the development repo, already, but I'm still pondering if I should go ahead and install it. Not too Linux savvy, so I'm worried something might break.

[creative]

If you are on a Ubuntu derivative I really recommend getting the nvidia installer working from nvidia itself. Of coarse this requires you to install the required corresponding kernel src, headers, modules and libraries used to build the driver but I feel its really worth it, so you don't have to wait for it to be added to your repos.

I have also had better performance building the driver using the nvidia installer as well. I don't know why that is but it is.

[mao_dze_dun]

*crowd boos*

The one downside to using this PPA. (pinging maintainer...)

I really don't want to be an a**hole about it, because I do appreciate the maintainers work. But you know - my Doom fps is all over the place with a GTX 1080, which kills the game in Windows. So I'm really itching to see how it would fare with a few Vulkan driver tweaks .

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Still not updated in the PPA

*crowd boos*

The one downside to using this PPA. (pinging maintainer...)

[mao_dze_dun]

Still not updated in the PPA

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Since 4.17, you can (must) define absolute clock values.

"Since Linux 4.17, it is possible to adjust clocks and voltages of the graphics card via /sys/class/drm/card0/device/pp_od_clk_voltage. It is however required to unlock access to it in sysfs by appending the boot parameter amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff"

Good to know. It's still excessive for a boot parameter to get oc going. I think the Coolbits xorg.conf tweak makes more sense (though that can be confusing in its own way at first), and then from there you can use nvidia-smi CLI to set the clocks, power limit, whatever for your scripts, and then the system panel in case you need GUI overview. Either way, I wasn't aware about this method so thanks for the heads up. I was using ohgodatool to do all my overclocking but that stopped working when 4.18 came out, and that was around the time I picked up the new card so I didn't look too into it.

For the record, I'm a big fan of AMD and I still have my RX 480 (looking for an excuse to build a second rig), but what NVIDIA has right now on Linux is also impressive and I hope AMD will dedicate the resources soon to bring that on Linux as well. And from the sounds of what bridgman is saying, we're in good hands and he's doing what he can to continue to improve that effort.

[aufkrawall]

Since 4.17, you can (must) define absolute clock values.