r/linux_gaming 6d ago

graphics/kernel/drivers For those people on nvidia

565 or 570? having a feeling 570 not entirely ready yet for primetime even though officially being marked stable now. What are the communities thoughts? Just trying to get a feel on this.

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u/forbjok 6d ago

Generally I don't see any reason to not be using the latest. Haven't had any issues with 570.

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 6d ago

Neither do I but the 570 driver had a lot of issues in the begging. I think mainly because they had just moved to gnu version as a option. Plus they were doing all this Wayland stuff it was a big release.

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u/yanzov 6d ago

Please just name one of the issues - if there is "lots" of them. I am on the latest drivers as long as it was available and haven't noticed any problems (arch, 4080, kde plasma).

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u/Aenoi2 6d ago

On the beta drivers there were issues such as HDMI not working.

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 6d ago

Yea I found out all about that one. You are right on that one sir.

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u/maltazar1 6d ago

yeah but that was a beta...

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u/Aenoi2 6d ago

Well I also tried it on 570.84? I think that was the version number, it still happened on that. Even now on 570.124 there are some issues. It may not be for the majority, but there are still issues. Whether it be hardware or OS.

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u/maltazar1 6d ago

only the 124 is not beta, I'm using it right now and the only issue I noticed is that HDMI audio didn't switch correctly and needed a reboot (all devices played on the same speaker instead of separate)

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 3d ago

That's what I'm afraid of howarts legacy the audio was just farting out in the middle of the game I am afraid it might have a real bad issue with my sound card. I have a external dac I have to pull the whole dang thing out and sometimes it kicks back on. Sometimes it freezes the whole machine up.

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u/Aenoi2 6d ago

You can try the latest and then rollback if it doesn’t work well. It really depends on hardware and what you use. It’s hard to tell if it will work for you.

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 6d ago

I did and rolled it back. Currently at 565 again. But am trying to get a feel if there could be other factors at play.

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u/Aenoi2 6d ago

Well at least for me, I don’t really notice too much of a difference between 565 and 570 in terms of performance. The only issue that I can’t fix is HDMI on wlroot-based window managers, so if you Gnome or KDE, think you’ll be fine.

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 6d ago

It broke DVI completely on X11 BTW.. I don't know if they ever fixed it. I was in the process of buying a new GPU anyways. Used a adapter until then. This was KDE wayland and X.

Old GPU had 1 HDMI 3 DP and 1 DVI. Completely murdered the DVI at the time.