Added support for Vulkan direct-to-display on DisplayPort displays which are connected via DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport (DP-MST).
Added a new documentation file, supported-gpus.json, which exposes a machine-readable list of supported GPUs and features.
Added an implementation of glNamedBufferPageCommitmentARB, which was missing from the NVIDIA driver’s support for the GL_ARB_sparse_buffer extension.
Fixed a bug that could cause a KDE Plasma session to crash when running under Wayland.
Fixed a bug that could cause some Swap Group configurations to present at half of the display refresh rate.
Added a new Connector-N display connector name alias type, with a unique alias assigned to each physical display connector on a GPU. See the README for more information.
Fixed a bug that prevented X11 EGL displays from being reinitialized.
The 450 driver series is the last that supports NvFBC’s NVFBC_CAPTURE_TO_HW_ENCODER capture interface, which has been deprecated since NVIDIA Capture SDK 6.0 released in 2017. Future NVIDIA drivers after the 450 series will return NVFBC_ERR_UNSUPPORTED if that capture interface is requested. The recommended way to encode captured frames with NVENC is by using the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK. See: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk
Implemented support for NVIDIA NGX. A new library, libnvidia-ngx.so, has been added to support the new functionality. This new library is needed by applications which link against any of the following SDKs:
NVIDIA DLSS SDK
NVIDIA NGX SDK
Fixed a bug which caused Vulkan applications to leak file descriptors when destroying Vulkan instances.
Added a fallback presentation path for PRIME Render Offload configurations where the DRI3 and/or Present extension are unavailable.
Fixed a bug where vkCreateSampler would fail with no borderColor data, even though it wasn’t needed.
Fixed a bug where vkUpdateDescriptorSetWithTemplate would ignore the stride parameter for some VkDescriptorType values.
Fixed a bug causing the Plasma desktop panel to freeze when compositing is disabled (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353983)
Improved Vulkan device enumeration under an X.Org X server environment. See the «Known Issues» in the README for more information.
Fixed a visual glitch of Vulkan applications when they stop flipping due to a window change, such as when alt-tab is used to change window focus.
Fixed a bug where XGetImage requests would return stale data for flipping Vulkan applications. In particular, this fixes screen-scraping tools such as VNC and import.
Removed libnvidia-fatbinaryloader.so from the driver package. This functionality is now built into other driver libraries.
Extended the dynamic runtime power management support in the NVIDIA driver to shut off power to video memory under certain conditions. See the chapter titled «PCI-Express Runtime D3 (RTD3) Power Management» in the README for more information.
Added HEVC 10/12 bit «decode only» support to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver. Note that VDPAU’s presentation pipeline and OpenGL-VDPAU interop does not support 10- and 12-bit video surfaces yet. See the «VDPAU Support» appendix in the README for supported HEVC decoder profiles.
Added support for Image Sharpening for OpenGL and Vulkan applications
Added new VdpYCbCrFormats VDP_YCBCR_FORMAT_Y_U_V_444_16, VDP_YCBCR_FORMAT_P010 and VDP_YCBCR_FORMAT_P016 for accessing 16-bit surfaces via VdpVideoSurfaceGetBitsYCbCr() and VdpVideoSurfacePutBitsYCbCr() in the NVIDIA VDPAU driver.
Added support to create 16-bit video surfaces in the NVIDIA VDPAU driver.
Modified nvidia-persistenced and libnvidia-ml (NVML) to use libtirpc for communication instead of relying on the deprecated glibc RPC implementation.
Enabled GPU screens by default on X.Org xserver version 1.20.7 and higher.
Fixed a bug where rendering in a separate user namespace (unshare -U) would show black window and produce Xid 13 errors.
Removed support for «IgnoreDisplayDevices» X configuration option.
Added support for PRIME Synchronization when using displays driven by the x86-video-amdgpu driver as PRIME display offload sinks.
Added support for displays connected to NVIDIA GPUs to act as PRIME display offload sinks, also known as «Reverse PRIME». See the chapter titled «Offloading Graphics Display with RandR 1.4» in the README for additional information.
Removed ‘libGL.la’ libtool archive from the install package.
Fixed a bug that caused a brief orange flash on some platforms when a
display mode is being set.
Fixed a bug that could cause the X server to crash when using large cursor images with PRIME display offloading.
Fixed an interaction problem with 5.4 and newer Linux kernels that caused a performance regression when allocating system memory.
Fixed a driver installation failure on Linux kernel 5.8 release candidates, where the NVIDIA kernel module failed to build with error «‘struct mm_struct’ has no member named ‘mmap_sem'».
Fixed a driver installation failure on Linux kernel 5.8 release candidates, where the NVIDIA kernel module failed to build with error «too many arguments to function ‘__vmalloc'».
Vulkan with flipping enabled on Quadro cards can lead to graphic corruption. If you think you have run into it you can do either of the following as a workaround:
— Disable flipping in nvidia-settings (uncheck «Allow Flipping» in the «OpenGL Settings» panel) — Disable UBB (run ‘nvidia-xconfig —no-ubb’) — Use a composited desktop
Note that many Linux distributions provide their own packages of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver in the distribution’s native package management format. This may interact better with the rest of your distribution’s framework, and you may want to use this rather than NVIDIA’s official package.
Also note that SuSE users should read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer HOWTO before downloading the driver.
Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57.run
One of the last installation steps will offer to update your X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used, or run nvidia-xconfig
Note that the list of supported GPU products is provided to indicate which GPUs are supported by a particular driver version. Some designs incorporating supported GPUs may not be compatible with the NVIDIA Linux driver: in particular, notebook and all-in-one desktop designs with switchable (hybrid) or Optimus graphics will not work if means to disable the integrated graphics in hardware are not available. Hardware designs will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, so please consult with a system’s manufacturer to determine whether that particular system is compatible.
Disabled the use of certain OpenGL optimizations with Autodesk Maya and Mudbox, due to conflicts between these applications and the optimizations. Some performance loss in Autodesk Maya and Mudbox is possible, as a result.
Fixed a behavior issue where redundant DPMS state transitions were leading to unexpected screen blanking on DisplayPort displays.
Note that many Linux distributions provide their own packages of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver in the distribution’s native package management format. This may interact better with the rest of your distribution’s framework, and you may want to use this rather than NVIDIA’s official package.
Also note that SuSE users should read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer HOWTO before downloading the driver.
Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.59.run
One of the last installation steps will offer to update your X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used, or run nvidia-xconfig
Note that the list of supported GPU products is provided to indicate which GPUs are supported by a particular driver version. Some designs incorporating supported GPUs may not be compatible with the NVIDIA Linux driver: in particular, notebook and all-in-one desktop designs with switchable (hybrid) or Optimus graphics will not work if means to disable the integrated graphics in hardware are not available. Hardware designs will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, so please consult with a system’s manufacturer to determine whether that particular system is compatible.
GeForce Go 7950 GTX, GeForce Go 7900 GTX, GeForce Go 7900 GS, GeForce Go 7800 GTX, GeForce Go 7800, GeForce Go 7700, GeForce Go 7600, GeForce Go 7400, GeForce Go 7300, GeForce Go 7200, GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M, GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M
Quadro CX, Quadro FX 350, Quadro FX 370, Quadro FX 370 Low Profile, Quadro FX 380, Quadro FX 380 Low Profile, Quadro FX 470, Quadro FX 540, Quadro FX 550, Quadro FX 560, Quadro FX 570, Quadro FX 580, Quadro FX 1400, Quadro FX 1700, Quadro FX 1500, Quadro FX 1800, Quadro FX 3400/4400, Quadro FX 3450, Quadro FX 3500, Quadro FX 3700, Quadro FX 3800, Quadro FX 4000, Quadro FX 4500, Quadro FX 4500 X2, Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 4700 X2, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 5500, Quadro FX 5600, Quadro FX 5800
Quadro FX Series (Notebooks):
Quadro FX 3800M, Quadro FX 3700M, Quadro FX 3600M, Quadro FX 2700M, Quadro FX 1800M, Quadro FX 1700M, Quadro FX 1600M, Quadro FX 880M, Quadro FX 770M, Quadro FX 570M, Quadro FX 380M, Quadro FX 370M, Quadro FX 360M
Quadro Blade/Embedded Series :
Quadro 500M, Quadro 1000M, Quadro 3000M, Quadro 4000M, Quadro FX 560M, Quadro FX 370M, Quadro FX 770M, Quadro FX 880M, Quadro FX 1600M, Quadro FX 2800M, Quadro FX 3600M, Quadro NVS 120M
