NVIDIA 415.18 Linux Driver Released: Adds HardDPMS, Fixes Wine Bug & Much More

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 415.18 Linux Driver Released: Adds HardDPMS, Fixes Wine Bug & Much More

NVIDIA has just released the 415.18 Linux graphics driver as their first stable update in the 415 driver series...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-415.18-Released

[pinguinpc]

According nvidia_icd_json_template shows this:

{ "fileformatversion" : "1.0.0", "ICD": { "library_path": "NV_VK_ICD", "api_version" : "1.1.84" } }

Again no stream output support for turing for now aka Another Meh Driver ^TM

[sdack]

Judging by the extensions reported through vulkaninfo is 415.18 on par with 396.54.06, which is also where 415.13 is.

[spykes]

This driver seems to crash some Unity games with proton, I got the infamous

GetThreadContext failed

error popup while trying to play "Ori and the blind forest".
Now waiting a new fix from Nvidia, as well as the VK_EXT_Transform_Feedback extension support... The QA failed, and I'm not happy with this release

[pixeljetstream]

the open-source samples from the NVIDIA DesignWorks team have seen plenty updates this week. Moved to imgui, improved vulkan support (no longer relying on the initial NV extensions). And there is also a new sample showcasing the "mesh shaders"

https://github.com/nvpro-samples/gl_vk_meshlet_cadscene

unfortunately we haven't had time to fix/test the linux version of the framework, yet. But that will come at later time.