The new NVIDIA 580.105 Linux driver fixes HDMI FRL issues, Rage 2 and Metro Exodus crashes, and adds a CUDA performance control variable.

Among the notable improvements, the driver introduces a new environment variable, CUDA_DISABLE_PERF_BOOST, allowing users to disable CUDA’s default behavior of automatically boosting GPU clock speeds to higher power states during compute workloads.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/257493/

  • Mikelius@lemmy.ml
    8·
    8 hours ago

    Unnecessary rant: I actually just had to downgrade my 575(?) driver after spending a few days trying to troubleshoot a freezing laptop. One day I walked away when it happen and that actually gave me the logs I needed to find the Nvidia driver was freezing the machine and then spitting logs out after giving up 10 minutes later (but still keeping things frozen). Was driving me nuts, thinking my hard drive was seeing the light, even though all tests for it were passing with flying colors!

    I’m hesitant to try this new version since I didn’t see anything in the changelog about freeze fixes lol.

    • Karna@lemmy.mlOP
      9·
      7 hours ago

      When it comes to Nvidia driver for Linux, my suggestion is - always stick to the version you find stable enough.

      In my case, Last Nvidia 580 driver version works smoothly on my Desktop. Earlier I was on 550.

      On a side note, faulty RAM often cause system freeze/crash. You might want to run memtest from boot menu as well.