Nvidia is the company responsible for, among other things, some of the most popular GPUs on the planet, but also for some headaches for certain Linux users. These headaches can manifest as the images displayed by our PCs not being the best they could possibly offer. Any problem can be solved if the right solution is found, and that's what the company has attempted and seemingly succeeded in doing with the release of Nvidia 430.14 for Linux.
The new Linux driver is now available, and among its new features are improvements for games like DiRT 4 and Wolfenstein II. The racing game deserves special mention, as Feral Interactive released it for Linux on March 28th. As for Wolfenstein II, it's a first-person shooter (FPS) available on the Steam gaming platform.
Other new features included in Nvidia 430.14
Among the rest of the news, the driver for Linux Nvidia 430.14 includes:
- New functions in the VDPAU driver.
- Support for decoding HEVC YUV 4: 4: 4 streams.
- New profile capacity per decoder.
- Support to access YUV 4: 4: 4 surfaces.
- Support for creating YUV 4: 4: 4 video surfaces.
- Support has been added for hosting VDPAU video surfaces with explicit frames or field image structure.
- Support for the OpenGL GL_NV_vdpau_interop2 extension to be able to share VDPAU / OpenGL surfaces with explicit frames or field image structure.
- The X.ORG Server minimum requirement has been updated to version 1.7.
- The nvidia-installer has been updated to improve system language support.
- Fixed a bug that caused the screen to change to low resolution when configuring the PRIME screen download with the command "nvidia-xconfig –prime".
- Fixed a bug in the FreeBSD installation files on BSD systems.
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