Nvidia 290.03 Beta Linux Driver Announced

Nvidia has announced that the new generation of Linux drivers, 290.03 Beta, are now available for download for anyone willing to try them.

Nvidia has increased a little the pace in which is releasing drivers for the Linux platform. The new 290.03 Beta video drivers bring several changes. Here are some of the important ones:

· Added support for the following GPU: GeForce 510;
· Fixed a bug that prevented the driver from loading on some systems with integrated graphics;
· Fixed issues in VDPAU that prevented allocating and displaying extremely large VdpOutputSurfaces;
· Added support for limiting heap allocations in the OpenGL driver through the use of the __GL_HEAP_ALLOC_LIMIT environment variable;
· Fixed a bug that caused trapezoid and triangle rendering to be very slow on older GPUs with xorg-server 1.11.

Download Nvidia Linux Display Driver 290.03 Beta right now from Softpedia.