Nvidia released today a new short-lived graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating systems on all supported architectures, bringing various bug fixes, better Vulkan support, and some other improvements.
Probably the most fundamental change of the Nvidia 381.22 graphics driver is support for a bunch of new Vulkan extensions, thus adding an extra layer of support for Vulkan, which in these days is more and more used in popular games. However, this was only implemented for the Linux driver.
The newly supported Vulkan extensions are VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display, VK_EXT_display_control, VK_EXT_direct_mode_display, VK_KHX_external_semaphore, VK_KHX_external_memory_fd, VK_KHX_external_semaphore_fd, VK_EXT_display_surface_counter, and VK_KHX_external_memory.
It’s important to keep in mind when installing the Nvidia 381.22 video driver on your GNU/Linux operating system that all … (read more)
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