Nvidia 595 Stable Out

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Nvidia 595 Stable Out - Lemmy.ca

> Added support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Now we just wait for it to get implemented in Proton to finally have decent DX12 performance on Nvidia on Linux.

Improved support for falling back to system memory when available video memory is low, to help prevent Wayland desktop freezes.

I feel like this is pretty big! forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/…/260304

Non-existent shared VRAM on NVIDIA Linux drivers

The NVIDIA Linux driver doesn’t handle the VRAM sharing with the system RAM. What I’m exactly referring to is this: Windows 10 Task Manager in GPU section As can be seen, there is the “Dedicated GPU memory” and the “Shared GPU memory” that is actual system RAM but shared with the GPU, so in case the GPU runs out of VRAM, the system or game doesn’t simply crash or have a drop in FPS. So what is the problem then? The problem is that the “Shared GPU memory” doesn’t exist on the NVIDIA Linux dri...

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Nice! I’ve been burned by this before.

Same, great update, happened a few times already and I’ve only been on Linux for two months.

One thing I love about swapping OS is that over the past two months, I’ve already seen 10 or so patches to the OS that have legitimately made my experience better. On Windows, everything just got progressively worse with each upgrade. It makes me hopeful for the future instead of despondent!