NVIDIA has made version 590.48.01 of its Linux driver available today as part of the New Feature Branch, incorporating a number of additional fixes. Although it’s out of beta, it might be prudent for some users to wait until it’s officially moved to the Recommended or Certified driver stream after further testing.
Here’s a summary of the changes in v590.48.01:
Key updates since the R590 Beta Release (590.44.01)
- Addressed several EGL platform issues that interfered with multisample configurations:
Key updates from the R590 Beta Release (590.44.01)
- The minimum required Wayland version is now 1.20.
- A problem preventing the PowerMizer preferred mode selection in the nvidia-settings application from working correctly on Wayland has been resolved.
- The minimum required glibc version has been increased to 2.27.
- Improvements have been made to the performance of Vulkan swapchain recreation, reducing potential stuttering when resizing Vulkan application windows.
- The minimum required X.Org xserver version is now 1.17 (corresponding to video driver ABI version 19).
- A bug causing incorrect Dots Per Inch (DPI) reporting for certain displays, like the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9, has been fixed.
- Multiple issues that hindered Vulkan applications on the Venus VirtIO virtual GPU have been resolved.
- A fix is included for a bug that could lead to system freezes when using PREEMPT_RT kernels.
Source: NVIDIA
