www.abithelp.com

Just a week after releasing the 'certified' 190.53 driver, Nvidia has rolled out a new beta driver specifically aimed for Linux users. This latest version (195.30) has support for GeForce 6 and newer cards, and features:

- Fixed a performance regression with non-antialiased text in KDE4.
- Enabled GPU acceleration for many RENDER compositing operations that were previously processed in software, including conjoint and disjoint blending modes and component alpha blending.
- Added experimental GPU acceleration of the RENDER CompositeTrapezoids operation (supported on the GeForce GTX series or newer products). This can be enabled at runtime by running - nvidia-settings -a AccelerateTrapezoids=1
- Fixed a bug in the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue that caused high CPU usage during "put bits" operations when more than two surfaces were queued.
- Updated 'nvidia-settings --query all' to report all available attributes queryable through all NV-CONTROL target types.

The 32bit version of the 195.30 Linux driver can be downloaded here, while the 64bit release is here.


More...