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NVIDIA driver 555.58 released as stable bringing Wayland Explicit Sync (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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The time is finally here. The next big stable update to the NVIDIA proprietary driver for Linux with version 555.58 bringing Wayland Explicit Sync.

Following on from the initial NVIDIA 555.42.02 Beta and the 555.52.04 Beta, NVIDIA noted some rather vague "Minor bug fixes and improvements" since the last Beta. With this release, you should be truly good to go with Wayland on NVIDIA GPUs now.

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[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

POG

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Oh, I hear there are some pretty major issues with Firefox and explicit sync on Wayland. Does anyone know if fedora will have patches to make sure everything works fine when it releases to rpmfusion? If not then I might wait a bit...

[-] tarsisurdi@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What issues are you aware people have been experiencing?

I’m currently running 555.52.04 (this driver’s beta release) on F40 + GNOME Wayland and Firefox has been working flawlessly. Video playback using PiP has also improved a lot for me although IDK if it’s related to explicit sync or Wayland itself. Before installing these drivers I was using X and that feature would annihilate my desktop’s performance.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I have seen reports of Firefox crashing under Wayland and that the way to make it work was to disable Wayland in Firefox or iirc to add a kernel parameter. Maybe it was fixed in Firefox too, but I saw some people saying the flatpak was somehow now affected (?)

[-] Mechaguana@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

I hope this fixes the flickering on any game i run using wayland, x11 feels old

[-] Hexorg@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

Yup, I’ve been plagued by this bug for a long time. I’m very excited to use this!

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