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Fixed a resource leak introduced in the 390 series of drivers that could lead to reduced performance after starting and stopping several OpenGL and/or Vulkan applications.
Last edited by cwizardone; 08-27-2018 at 11:57 AM.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by kjhambrick
Thanks again cwizardone.
Must be my Make and Model ...( GTX 970M )...
They don't yet offer 390.87 for me -and- mine.
-- kjh
Nvidia has updated their web site and your card is listed as supported by the 390.87
driver.
In the future, I'll wait until everything has been posted by Nvidia before listing it here.
Unlike some projects, Nvidia is a company that keeps normal business hours and it is only 10:00 Monday morning at their location on the West (Left) Coast of the U.S.
Last edited by cwizardone; 08-27-2018 at 12:05 PM.
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Nvidia has released a new BETA Vulkan driver.
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Bug fixes:
VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor has been updated to version 3
Entry point queries for VK_EXT_conditional_rendering have been fixed
Missing primitives with some DXVK content has been fixed
If anyone interested, there is 410.48 version of driver available within newly released CUDA 10 installation package. I wasn't able to find the changelog for the driver, but it seems to be working fine. On the other side, it's a big disappointment that CUDA 10 is still not supporting GCC 8 - even if one tries to comment out check for GCC version in corresponding CUDA include file, large number of compile errors get spitted out for example when trying to build CUDA samples. Thus, if developing with CUDA on Slackware, one has to keep maintaining parallel GCC 7 installation.
If anyone interested, there is 410.48 version of driver available within newly released CUDA 10 installation package. I wasn't able to find the changelog for the driver, but it seems to be working fine.
I did not have the same experience. I downloaded the CUDA package, extracted the contents, and installed the driver, but all I got upon reboot, when going into X, was blank screens. The monitors were receiving a signal, but absolutely nothing was being shown. The driver itself was a normal installation, and I had no hint of anything going wrong. Perhaps this driver is tied to CUDA in a way that makes it unable to function without CUDA installed as well (which I don't, because I have no need for it ATM.) Some clarification or confirmation of my suspicions would be most helpful. Thanks!
It certainly has nothing to do with missing CUDA, as the dependency is other way around - CUDA cannot work without NVIDIA proprietary driver, while all versions of this driver install libcuda.so so that CUDA enabled apps could use GPU(s) for calculations.
In the meantime, it seems that even newer (410.57) version of driver appeared: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1041820. So you may want to check in the release notes is there any hint about your particular GPU, and eventually give it a try. If it doesn't work, you just need to run the driver installation package with "--uninstall" option, and it should properly clean itself (NVIDIA driver installers have always been, in my experience, very good in that regard), then install driver version that worked for you.
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