14 DAY TRIAL // Nvidia has released today new long-lived stable graphics drivers for Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems to add a bunch of various enhancements, bug fixes, and performance improvements for some games.
The Nvidia 430.14 display driver is now available for Linux-based operating system with performance improvements for the DiRT 4 video game, which was ported last month by UK-based video games publisher Feral Interactive to Linux and Mac platforms, as well as for the Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus first-person shooter video game, which is available as a Steam Play title.
The Nvidia 430.14 display driver also adds new functionality to the Nvidia VDPAU driver, including support for decoding HEVC YUV 4:4:4 streams, new per-decoder profile capability, support for accessing YUV 4:4:4 surfaces, support for creating YUV 4:4:4 video surfaces, and support for allocating VDPAU video surfaces with explicit frame or field picture structure.
New OpenGL extension, updated nvidia-installer
Among other noteworthy changes included in the Nvidia 430.14 graphics driver, we can mention support for the GL_NV_vdpau_interop2 OpenGL extension to allow VDPAU/OpenGL surface sharing with explicit frame or field picture structure, updated X.Org Server minimum requirement to version 1.7, and updated nvidia-installer for better compatibility with system localization.
The new driver also addresses an issue causing the display to go into a low resolution when configuring PRIME display offloading with the "nvidia-xconfig --prime" command. For BSD systems, it also fixes a bug present in the FreeBSD installation makefiles, which may cause some Linux compatibility libraries to be installed as empty files. You can download Nvidia 430.14 for GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris 64-bit systems right now and install it on your favorite operating system.