NVIDIA Delivers Massive Performance Boost to Linux Gaming

Cristian_25H · Nov 6, 2012

NVIDIA today announced the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers -- R310 -- double the performance and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system.

The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce customers the best possible Linux-based PC gaming experience -- and showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system.

Available for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.

"With this release, NVIDIA has managed to increase the overall gaming performance under Linux," said Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing at Valve. "NVIDIA took an unquestioned leadership position developing R310 drivers with us and other studios to provide an absolutely unequalled solution for Linux gamers."

The R310 drivers support the newest GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs, which have redefined gaming for desktop and notebook PCs by combining revolutionary performance and gaming technology features with an incredibly power-efficient design. Gamers with previous generation GeForce GPUs, including the 8800 GT and above, are encouraged to download these new drivers as well.

For an up-to-date third-party listing of games and applications that are currently in development for Linux, visit the Marlamin site.

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TheMailMan78 · Nov 6, 2012

I guess we know what the Steambox will be running when it comes to the GPU.

deleted · Nov 6, 2012

Don't buy from Nvidia, enemy of your freedoms.

Crap Daddy · Nov 6, 2012

I like these words: "unquestioned leadership" "unequalled solution" "double the performance"

InnocentCriminal · Nov 6, 2012

Nice!

I hope AMD pull their finger out because of this. They've never (really) had decent Linux drivers.

TheGuruStud · Nov 6, 2012

InnocentCriminal said:
Nice!

I hope AMD pull their finger out because of this. They've never (really) had decent Linux drivers.

Neither does nvidia :laugh:

Covert_Death · Nov 6, 2012

im just hoping gaming picks up on linux so it can be realized as a great OS and more common

SaltyFish · Nov 6, 2012

So we went from Linus Torvalds making a "wonderful" comment on NVIDIA to.... this?

I'm surprised.

TheMailMan78 · Nov 6, 2012

SaltyFish said:
So we went from Linus Torvalds making a "wonderful" comment on NVIDIA to.... this?

I'm surprised.

You can thank Valve.

radrok · Nov 6, 2012

Well I hope this trend goes on and AMD/ATI follows because I won't adopt Windows 8 if they do not change some things.

It's good to have a choice, especially if Linux is one of those choices.

aayman_farzand · Nov 6, 2012

When can we see huge performance improving Windows drivers. 12.11 did wonder for AMD, waiting on Nvidia to bring something close to that.

phanbuey · Nov 6, 2012

TheGuruStud said:
Neither does nvidia

they do now

aayman_farzand said:
When can we see huge performance improving Windows drivers. 12.11 did wonder for AMD, waiting on Nvidia to bring something close to that.

You would be waiting for a while. A huge improvement means that your drivers kind of sucked to begin with, and you made them better. If NV's drivers are already good, then there is not that much room to bring such a huge boost.

MxPhenom 216 · Nov 6, 2012

Linux is fine and everything, but its not for everyone. I really hate this push to gaming on it. Id rather just use windows and play my game. Not have to have a degree in programming to figure it out.

I think its ridiculous on how some Linux versions you have to recompile your kernal after doing driver installs for it to work right.

aayman_farzand · Nov 6, 2012

phanbuey said:
You would be waiting for a while. A huge improvement means that your drivers kind of sucked to begin with, and you made them better. If NV's drivers are already good, then there is not that much room to bring such a huge boost.

Nah it's not like I'm expecting for 50% increase. Drivers aren't THAT bad

. Minimum 10% like 12.11 should be doable, especially in SLI where GPU usage isn't always high but FPS drops randomly.

Covert_Death · Nov 6, 2012

MxPhenom 216 said:
Linux is fine and everything, but its not for everyone. I really hate this push to gaming on it. Id rather just use windows and play my game. Not have to have a degree in programming to figure it out.

I think its ridiculous on how some Linux versions you have to recompile your kernal after doing driver installs for it to work right.

what you aren't recognizing though is that if a large gamer adoption of linux takes place there will be greater support for the "simplified" functionality of linux... people will want it to be intuitive like windows and greater support for the OS will help it get there

Solaris17 · Nov 6, 2012

MxPhenom 216 said:
Linux is fine and everything, but its not for everyone. I really hate this push to gaming on it. Id rather just use windows and play my game. Not have to have a degree in programming to figure it out.

I think its ridiculous on how some Linux versions you have to recompile your kernal after doing driver installs for it to work right.

im glad they are this is a huge leap forward and exactly what linux needed. you dont need a degree in programming and compiling a kernal if you know how is pretty much the most fantastic thing in the universe. imagine your OS built around your PC lighter faster stronger better stability and uptime.

MxPhenom 216 · Nov 6, 2012

Solaris17 said:
im glad they are this is a huge leap forward and exactly what linux needed. you dont need a degree in programming and compiling a kernal if you know how is pretty much the most fantastic thing in the universe. imagine your OS built around your PC lighter faster stronger better stability and uptime.

Ill take that with a grain of salt.

TheMailMan78 · Nov 6, 2012

Solaris17 said:
im glad they are this is a huge leap forward and exactly what linux needed. you dont need a degree in programming and compiling a kernal if you know how is pretty much the most fantastic thing in the universe. imagine your OS built around your PC lighter faster stronger better stability and uptime.

I tried Linux a month or so ago (Mint) and they have a LONG way to go before its ready for the masses. Took me a day to figure out how to confirm the firewall was on.

Granted I did have a lot of fun learning something new but, its not for noobs like me and definitely not for the masses.........yet.

MxPhenom 216 · Nov 6, 2012

TheMailMan78 said:
I tried Linux a month or so ago (Mint) and they have a LONG way to go before its ready for the masses. Took me a day to figure out how to confirm the firewall was on.

Granted I did have a lot of fun learning something new but, its not for noobs like me and definitely not for the masses.........yet.

Exactly, At work I have to work on solaris machines and Linux, and its a pain in the ass!

Solaris17 · Nov 6, 2012

TheMailMan78 said:
I tried Linux a month or so ago (Mint) and they have a LONG way to go before its ready for the masses. Took me a day to figure out how to confirm the firewall was on.

Granted I did have a lot of fun learning something new but, its not for noobs like me and definitely not for the masses.........yet.

thats because its linux mint. to each their own i suppose.

TheMailMan78 · Nov 6, 2012

Solaris17 said:
thats because its linux mint. to each their own i suppose.

That's what was recommended to me as being the most simple. I aint gonna argue with you or anyone else about it. I'm very ignorant of the platform. I was just stating my limited personal experience that's all. :toast:

MicroUnC · Nov 6, 2012

Installing Now

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings

TheMailMan78 · Nov 6, 2012

MicroUnC said:
Installing Now

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings

You see!!! WTF DOES THAT EVEN MEAN! :laugh:

brandonwh64 · Nov 6, 2012

TheMailMan78 said:
You see!!! WTF DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!

Its quite confusing to me too but I think if someone used linux there whole lives and tried to use CMD prompt (MSDOS even though its almost completely butchered now) it would be just as confusing.

Fourstaff · Nov 6, 2012

Quite a few of my friends uses Ubuntu, they seem pretty "usable" to me. You certainly don't need a computer science degree to use it (one of them studied Biomedical Science).

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