NVIDIA announced the first release of its 575 driver series for Linux few days ago.
It’s NVIDIA 575.51.02, a Beta driver, that features NVIDIA Smooth Motion support for GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards, which is also coming to RTX 40 series.
It is a new driver-based AI model, similar to AMD Fluid Motion Frames, for better gaming performance.
NVIDIA Smooth Motion uses AI to infer additional frames between two rendered frames, improving the overall smoothness of gameplay, for games without native DLSS frame generation support.
And, it can be enabled by setting the NVPRESENT_ENABLE_SMOOTH_MOTION=1 environment variable when launching a game. See the documentation for details.
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With the new driver, the NVIDIA Dynamic Boost feature will also work on Linux for notebooks running on battery power.
It’s a system-wide power controller that can shift power between the GPU and the CPU according to the workload on the system. This also improves gaming performance and optimizes overall system performance per watt.
NVIDIA 575 driver also extended the __NV_DISABLE_EXPLICIT_SYNC environment variable for GLX and Vulkan applications.
The environment variable tells to disable “explicit synchronization” feature, that improves performance in some cases by allowing the GPU and CPU to work concurrently. Though, it raises the risk of undefined behavior, such as crashes and incorrect results.
The release also added support for GLX front buffer rendering on Xwayland, allowing application to directly render into the buffer that’s visible on the screen rather than the back buffer, a temporary area for rendering new frames in the background. This however can cause visible tearing issues.
Other changes include support for the DRM plane properties COLOR_ENCODING and COLOR_RANGE, update the nvidia-modeset driver to trim trailing whitespace from the product name passed to the GPU’s audio device, as well as fixes for following bugs:
- Marvel Rivals crash on startup or when loading levels.
- app unresponsive on Wayland.
- Minecraft crash on Xwayland.
- Display freezes on some systems when toggling Night Mode on GNOME Wayland.
- Rendering issue after resuming from sleep, when using NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1.
- KDE Frameworks 6 crash.
The driver also removed following plane properties on Linux kernels earlier than 6.8, to avoid exceeding DRM_OBJECT_MAX_PROPERTY.
- NV_PLANE_BLEND_CTM,
- NV_PLANE_DEGAMMA_TF,
- NV_PLANE_DEGAMMA_LUT,
- NV_PLANE_DEGAMMA_LUT_SIZE,
- and NV_PLANE_DEGAMMA_MULTIPLIER DRM.
Get NVIDIA 575.51.02 Driver
The official release note and .run installer are available in NVIDIA website via the link below:
As a new feature branch version, Ubuntu is unlikely to build this driver into system repository. But, you may keep an eye on the popular “Graphics Drivers” team PPA for the native .deb packages.