This update, among other things, adds support for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap, which should bring significant performance boost to Nvidia cards, once it’s properly implemented.
Is… is it as exciting as their most recent Windows driver?
I don’t buy hardware from companies that are hostile to open source.
Already moved to AMD.
Lol, let me know when they add back support for GTX 1000 series cards. XD
Amen to that brother 🙏
My 1070 ti is chugging on strong 🤟😎
I don’t want exciting I want stable.
Yeah no I want exciting too.
I would recommend not installing beta drivers in that case.
I’d recommend avoiding NVidia in general. Their drivers are intensely hit or miss. Any time anything has gone wrong with my PC, NVidia and their shitty drivers have been the culprit.
Any time anything has gone wrong with my PC, NVidia and their shitty drivers have been the culprit.
This seems unlikely. You’ve never had a hard drive failure, bad RAM, missing dependencies, malware or bugs in any other software except NVIDIA?
You must be one heck of a statistical outlier.
In the past two years? Nope, entirely NVidia. There’s been a bunch of problems, absolutely, but it’s always been NVidia’s garbage drivers at the core of it.
Wow an expectation of future vague performance improvements is exciting indeed!
Vulkan developers said last year that this is the single biggest bottleneck on Nvidia cards that they are aware of. Of course, the final performance improvement can only be known once it is properly implemented, but their guestimation is that it should bring the performance much closer to Windows performance.
I already get better frame rates on Linux than I did on Windows. But I won’t complain about more of them
Not upgrading. The last two on Windows apparently had lots of bugs
exciting one? like full of bugs and crashing constantly?
Has anyone been able to get HDR working in Kubuntu 25.10 without the system crashing entirely?
HDR improvements are coming in some later driver version.
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/vulkan-extensions-needed-for-hdr-is-missing/334268/14?u=tda0626So the answer is shrug with a side of “thoughts and prayers!”
Have you tried moving to a newer kernel? It should be working with Nvidia latest and KDE latest (Mine is solid on CachyOS) so it could be a kernel bug for you. No real downside to installing a newer one; but depending on your setup there could be a few regressions that might force you back to stable.
No real downside to installing a newer one; but depending on your setup there could be a few regressions that might force you back to stable.
So there are no real downsides except for potentially that it won’t work and will waste a whole bunch of time and you’ll have to revert.
Yep. No downsides.
That’s literally how any update on a computer ever will work. Real downsides worth mentioning would be like “you’ll be unbootable, you can’t rollback, it’ll update a bunch of other packages, it might delete user home”. Having to select an old entry in your grub config at boot because the new kernel doesn’t play nice with any number of custom peripherals or packages on your system is not what I would consider a serious downside and you’d have to do it if Kubuntu decided to roll a kernel update anyway. Do you uh, use linux?
KDE on endeavouros works with HDR for me (latest drivers). Ubuntu is usually a few months behind on updates, but I wouldn’t expect plasma 6 to crash every time when trying HDR. I hope you’re able to narrow down the cause, or have a magical update that fixes it.
It’s not just Plasma I think. I can’t even ctrl-alt-fkey into a terminal. The whole system freezes.
