NVIDIA Is "Taking Linux Gaming Serious"

[tarceri]

They would need to add some developers to nouveau before I would ever buy a Nvidia card again. I know some people say they use the Nvidia proprietary drivers because the just work but honestly I wouldn't be using Linux if thats all I cared about.

[ba7a7chy]

Kernel Mode Setting!!
You can always spot a machine with a proprietary gpu driver booting by the butt-ugly bootsplash resolution and tty transitions.
Debugging of kernel panic also depends on this; proprietary gpu users just get a frozen screen with no information. Joking aside, a blue screen is much better from a usability prespective than a freeze.

+1 +1 +1 +1 !!!

[UraniumDeer]

KMS
EGL
Mantle

[z0id]

UEFI support

Believe it or not, Nvidia doesn't support UEFI on linux. UEFI requires a framebuffer, efi, which nvidia doesn't support. So if you boot with UEFI, you'll get a black screen until X starts (if it works), and a black screen if you change TTY.

[darkbasic]

Believe it or not, Nvidia doesn't support UEFI on linux. UEFI requires a framebuffer, efi, which nvidia doesn't support. So if you boot with UEFI, you'll get a black screen until X starts (if it works), and a black screen if you change TTY.

WTF? With fglrx it works flawlessly...

[FutureSuture]

They would need to add some developers to nouveau before I would ever buy a Nvidia card again. I know some people say they use the Nvidia proprietary drivers because the just work but honestly I wouldn't be using Linux if thats all I cared about.

I intend to switch to AMD at some point next year for the sake of using open source drivers. Still, the performance needs to be there as well, and needs to keep improving at that. There's a chance that Nvidia will get my money as my GTX 570 has given me no issues whatsoever while AMD cards seem to crap on more people than they make happy.

[yogi_berra]

Shadowplay, PhysX (GPU port, not CPU), Gsync, and optimus are all things I want on Linux.

Shouldn't they get Shadowplay to capture more than one resolution and out of Beta before wasting time supporting any pie in the sky port?

[tarceri]

I intend to switch to AMD at some point next year for the sake of using open source drivers. Still, the performance needs to be there as well, and needs to keep improving at that. There's a chance that Nvidia will get my money as my GTX 570 has given me no issues whatsoever while AMD cards seem to crap on more people than they make happy.

I would be happy using the closed source drivers when performance was needed as long as I knew Nvidia was at least putting some funds into the open drivers. Personally I've had no problem with AMD cards.

[deanjo]

Since SteamOS is concentrating on putting Linux onto your home theater system, it would be nice to have HDMI-CEC support via libcec without resorting to dongles.

[deanjo]

Shouldn't they get Shadowplay to capture more than one resolution and out of Beta before wasting time supporting any pie in the sky port?

I would say Physx and Optimus support would be needed before more resolution support in Shadowplay capture. 1080p is just fine for most of the systems out there and 4k won't become common for quite a few years yet.