14 DAY TRIAL // Nvidia announced a new stable, long-lived version of its proprietary graphics driver for GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris platforms, versioned 375.20, which appears to be a major update that introduces numerous improvements and some new features.
As expected, the biggest change in the Nvidia 375.20 proprietary video driver is the addition of support for the recently released X.Org Server 1.19.0 (ABI 23) display server for all supported operating systems, which means that most of the modern distributions will soon push an updated graphics stack to their users for better gaming and overall desktop graphics performance.
Also new in the Nvidia 375.20 driver release is support for the company's latest GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics cards, as well as Nvidia Quadro M620, Nvidia Quadro M5000 SE, and Nvidia Quadro M3000 SE GPUs. However, we can't help but notice that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 family of GPUs is currently not supported on Solaris operating systems.
The on-disk OpenGL shader cache size is now 128MB
Among other noteworthy improvements that Nvidia implemented in the Nvidia 375.20 graphics drivers, which is a recommended update for all users, we can mention two new X configuration options, namely ForceFullCompositionPipeline and ForceCompositionPipeline, to override the corresponding MetaMode tokens, support for the RandR TILE property in RandR 1.5, and support for the libGLVND library.
"Added EGL support to the GL Vendor Neutral Dispatch Library (libGLVND). The installer package now includes both GLVND and non-GLVND versions of the EGL libraries: the --glvnd-egl-client and --no-glvnd-egl-client options in nvidia-installer can be used to select which to install," reads the release notes, where you can read all about the bugs fixed in the Nvidia 375.20 update.
Last but not least, Nvidia 375.20 raises the on-disk OpenGL shader cache size from 64MB to 128MB and removes the "Enable Tooltip" option in nvidia-settings, but only for the GTK+ 2 interface. You can download Nvidia 375.20 graphics driver for 64-bit, 32-bit and ARM GNU/Linux systems, as well as for FreeBSD (64-bit/32-bit) and Solaris (64-bit/32-bit) platforms.