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[–] SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YOOO!!

I can’t wait to get home for this! I’m going to try to use VRR again too, see how it plays with that.

[–] SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got home, it’s working really well. Like, I’m super pleased!

VRR still needs testing on my system. I know that there’s yet to be a fix for multi-monitor VRR. I still need to test with a single monitor, though.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently tried Wayland and it was not so pleasant experience. Guess I'll try again soon.

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was no sync at all in the last drivers, now we have good sync, it should be nice smooth experience once everything updates

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heh, I tried the NVK driver just out of curiosity and it worked better than proprietary driver for Wayland. I wonder if this update would make that level of smoothness.

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NVK is great overall, for gaming eeeeh, no, sadly. I think it's getting improvements for vulkan gaming

But 555 beta is already much better than 550 on wayland

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I tried gaming but best it can do is mid-tier gaming. Still impressive though.

That's good to hear. Hopefully they release final version soon.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How can I update to this beta driver in Bazzite?

[–] EccTM@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I think we Fedora users just have to wait for RPMFusion to roll out the updated driver. Not entirely sure if they only use Stable branch drivers or not though. I'm used to Arch where it would just be in the AUR within the hour...

I've been refreshing half the uBlue repos a lot today in the hopes there's some commits showing they're rolling the drivers out for Bluefin quickly 😂

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You can't. Just wait for it to be stable

[–] daddyjones@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

How long do these drivers usually take to move out of beta?

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

Everyone so excited while I'm here sitting with gt1030 that most likely doesn't even support vrr

Let's freaking gooooo!

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does this support the gtx 1660?

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/224751/en-us/ here's the release notes, it includes the list of supported products.

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It is supported 🤗

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also supports gt 1030 but I'm not sure if my gpu even supports explicit sync. I would appreciate any kind of answer.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Explicit sync is a software thing. It's how the software stack queues frame rendering. As long as the driver version that implements it covers your card model it will work.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Let's goo. Thanks for the info. I may have confused it with vrr but idk tbh

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Let’s go open source competition!

[–] Spore@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Did they fixed the kernel panic problem that persisted in the last two versions? I don't dare to try it, last month their proprietary driver has almost destroyed my machine.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

What's up with the Fedora font on the 'explicit sync' though? Hmmm...