NVIDIA released Beta driver 595.45.04 for Linux and it includes support for some new Vulkan extensions that could help improve gaming performance.

This update, among other things, adds support for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap, which should bring significant performance boost to Nvidia cards, once it’s properly implemented.

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’ve gone 4 years on my Ubuntu laptop (DELL XPS-13) without any serious problems.

    My one year old Lenovo Gaming laptop with an NVIDIA chip, however… Audio randomly stops working and I have to kick-start ALSA to get it going again - Until it just blows out audio entirely and I have to reboot. My only work-around is to use bluetooth audio.

    So yeah, NVIDIA has some responsibility here. I don’t have any other problems on the Lenovo (also Ubuntu) either. That said, I’ve had few problems with GenAI or Steam video games like Cyberpunk 2077 on NVIDIA (other than audio), so it isn’t all bad.