Nvidia 367.18 Beta Graphics Drivers Released for Linux, No GTX 1080 Support Yet

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Just a few minutes ago, May 19, 2016, Nvidia released a new Beta graphics driver for Unix operating systems, the first in the upcoming 367.x series, supporting Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris platforms.

The Nvidia 367.18 Beta proprietary graphics driver is all about bug fixes, patching many of the breadcrumbs left from 364 driver series, the latest short-lived version, which users can install for their GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating systems as an alternative to the long-lived 361 branch (the recommended version of the driver).

As expected, most of the changes are implemented in the Linux version of the driver, and, among the most important additions, we can mention the addition of the NV_robustness_video_memory_purge extension, allowing OpenGL apps to become aware of purged contents of BOs and FBOs that reside in the GPU memory, during power events or mode switching…. (read more)
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