NVIDIA has released a new Vulkan beta driver for Linux.
Vulkan 1.2 support is available in Windows driver version 443.24 and Linux driver version 440.66.15. These drivers also contain other new features, performance enhancements and bug fixes for Vulkan developers and enthusiasts.
Linux 440.66.15
May 26th, 2020 - Windows 443.24, Linux 440.66.15
- Fixes:
- Fixed 16-bit SMin/SMax
- CPU performance improvements for VkFence creation and usage [Linux]
- Fixed a bug where vkUpdateDescriptorSetWithTemplate would ignore the stride parameter for some VkDescriptorType values
- Fixed an issue with the Optimus layer selecting the iGPU when there was an application profile with Auto-select as the preferred graphics processor [Windows]
- Fixed layout of compute shader shared memory that may have resulted in a compiler crash
- Fixed a bug where vkCreateSampler would fail with no borderColor data, even though it wasn't needed
- Fixed a compiler issue processing image operation with extra unused coordinate operand components
Fixed writing to dynamically indexed vec2 and vec3 fragment color outputs
