Also available for FreeBSD and Solaris systems

Aug 23, 2016 22:30 GMT  ·  By

Just a few minutes ago, August 23, 2016, Nvidia has released a new long-lived proprietary graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating systems, version 367.44.

The biggest new feature of the Nvidia 367.44 video driver is support for the recently released Nvidia TITAN X graphics card with Pascal, as well as both 6GB and 3GB variants of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 GPU. Additionally, it addresses two regressions, one that caused OpenGL apps to crash when using indirect GLX and another one introduced by the Nvidia 367.35 graphics driver.

"Fixed a regression introduced in 367.35 that caused the first modeset of the X server to display blank if the features requested in the X configuration file enabled the X driver's composition pipeline. This would be triggered, e.g., by MetaMode tokens such as ForceCompositionPipeline, ForceFullCompositionPipeline, Rotation, Reflection, and Transform," reads today's announcement.

Nvidia 370.x branch still in Beta

In the meantime, the Nvidia developers are working hard on the next major release, the 370.x branch, which is currently in heavy development with a first Beta pushed to public beta testers last week. With the Nvidia 370 video driver, the company will let users underclock or overclock their GeForce GPUs, but more details should be available in the next couple of weeks.

In the meantime, we recommend that you update your Nvidia graphics drivers to today's 367.44 release, especially if you're using TITAN X or GeForce 1060 GPUs. Nvidia 367.44 is available for download for 64-bit and 32-bit Linux systems, as well as FreeBSD and Solaris OSes via our website. Detailed installation instructions are available on the release notes (link above), as well as on the app review page on Softpedia. The Nvidia 370.23 Beta is also available for download if you want to take it for a test drive (not suitable for production use).