NVidia announces the new NVidia GeForce R310 drivers, which, the company says, will dramatically improve performance and reduce game loading times for gamers using Linux.
Nvidia announced the new NVIDIA GeForce drivers – R310 for GNU/Linux distributions, which is supposed to double the current graphics performance, specially the loading time for games. If you want to play games using Steam for Linux client, recently beta is launched for Ubuntu 12.04 – then you must update your NVIDIA drivers.
The R310 drivers supports the newest latest GPUs.
The Linux version of Valve’s Steam games download shop goes live today, chip maker Nvidia has revealed.
GeForce to be reckoned with on the open source platform?
The Linux version of Valve’s Steam games download shop goes live today, chip maker Nvidia has revealed.
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This week NVIDIA began advertising their new "R310" Linux graphics driver that "delivers [a] massive performance boost to Linux gaming" as a result of Valve releasing their Steam Linux Beta.
This week NVIDIA began advertising their new "R310" Linux graphics driver that "delivers [a] massive performance boost to Linux gaming" as a result of Valve releasing their Steam Linux Beta.
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"With this release, NVIDIA has managed to increase the overall gaming performance under Linux," said Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing at Valve.
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I've recently tried to install Steam to give gaming on Linux a shot. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 with MATE 1.4.2 with the Linux 3.5.0-25-generic kernel on an unmodified Samsung RC512. It has an interlaced Intel i7 2630QM clocked at 2.00 GB, an nVidia GT 525M, and 6 GB of DDR3 RAM. The problem I've been running into is that I'm unable to enable third party nVidia drivers for my GT 525M.
Installing a driver on Linux used to be quite difficult, but in the past few years the process has become quite common. Here is a short tutorial on how to install the latest certified drivers from Nvidia, 310.19. After the launch of Steam for Linux, Nvidia has released two major driver versions, featuring a huge number of i... (read more)
I updated my system to the latest Nvidia driverslocal/lib32-nvidia-utils 304.43-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries. (32-bit)
local/nvidia 304.43-1
NVIDIA drivers for linux.
local/nvidia-utils 304.43-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.when using the older 302.x Nvidia drivers, gpm at login, and then X both works.
Nvidia announced yesterday, October 18, the immediate availability for download of the 304.60 certified version of its graphics driver for Linux operating systems. Nvidia continues to significantly improve their Linux drivers by releasing massive updates, this time only one day after the launch of Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quet... (read more)
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