NVIDIA 415.18.04 Vulkan Linux Beta Brings New Extensions, Unity Game Engine Fix

[theriddick]

War Thunder has had neverending issues with its Vulkan API testing and NVIDIA drivers... people seem to think nvidia is to blame, nvidia doesn't know of its existence perhaps...

[arabek]

Ahhh. OK. Seems to be dependant on __GL_NextGenCompiler variable set to 1

[dEnigma]

Is it just me, or is .04 missing the VK_EXT_transform_feedback again? I mean... srsly, get your shit together Nvidia

Seems like it's just you.

[arabek]

Is it just me, or is .04 missing the VK_EXT_transform_feedback again? I mean... srsly, <del>get your shit together Nvidia</del> document your shit

[pinguinpc]

December 2nd, 2018 - Windows 417.23, Linux 415.18.04

New Extensions:

VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8 VK_KHR_shader_float_controls

Fixes:

Fixes regression with Unity games on Linux

Tested with cuphead and works, however vulkan appears as 1.1.92

[louis_irl]

Is it a good idea to upgrade from 396 now?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 415.18.04 Vulkan Linux Beta Brings New Extensions, Unity Game Engine Fix

Adding to NVIDIA's busy Monday morning of announcing the TITAN RTX and open-sourcing PhysX, they also shipped their latest Vulkan beta driver support for Windows and Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-415.18.04-Linux-Driver