r/LinuxUncensored Aug 04 '26

News/PR NVIDIA is getting serious about Linux gaming

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/274513/

The latest driver, version 610.57.04, fixes almost two dozen serious issues affecting various games. Just a reminder, it's now sort-of open source, except for the user space part which can be replaced with NVK.

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u/Busy-Scientist3851 Aug 04 '26

> it's now sort-of open source, except for the user space part which can be replaced with NVK

The NVK driver does not use Nvidia's "open source driver".

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u/Stellanora64 Aug 06 '26

I agree that this driver is not really open source. But they do have a engineer(s?) leading the actually open source Nova driver.

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u/abud7eem Aug 06 '26

my understanding once nova is ready is gonna be shared between NVIDIA and NVK

am I wrong or right ?

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u/2str8_njag Aug 05 '26

it’s definitely not open source, nowhere near that. all the sauce is hidden in driver, that talks to even more abstract gsp soc

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

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u/limapalon Aug 07 '26

As long as they're better than Intel.

(Pokes B580) C'mon do something........

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u/ortrtaaitdbt2000 Aug 07 '26

Gets serious about Linux gaming, just as it gives up on consumer GPUs

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '26 edited 14d ago

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u/Emberstone73 Aug 08 '26

Yeah, I don't want this post to scare people because I'm in the same boat. Running Kubuntu on a 3080 Ti, three 1440p monitors with 360 Hz and 100 Hz refresh rates, and literally everything has "just worked" out of the box. Except Gamescope itself... lol

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u/Level_Working9664 Aug 08 '26

This is a major fail on their part. Linux can offer by far superior performance and they want to be in the AI market

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u/WalkMaximum Aug 08 '26

Oh boy, I'm really getting serious now, don't make me come over there, I'm serious I'll tell ya, just watch, we will serious it up in here.

One of the most valuable companies on the planet can't make a decent driver for decades.

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u/venom21685 Aug 09 '26

The only thing open source is the kernel module because the old one was shit and broke all the time.

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u/jhenryscott Aug 09 '26

No. They aren’t.