NVIDIA has released a new Vulkan 1.2 beta driver for Linux.
Release Updates
April 1st, 2020 - Windows 442.86, Linux 440.66.07
- New:
- Multi thread-capable deferred ray tracing pipeline creation
- Allow presenting from queue families which only expose VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT when using XCB in addition to Xlib surfaces [Linux]
- Fixes:
- Added a workaround for Linux Steam Play title DOOM Eternal, which overrides application requested memory locations, to ensure performance-critical resources be placed in video memory [Linux]
- Correctly cap the drawCount for vkCmdDrawIndirectCount and vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirectCount on Turing GPUs
- Fixed descriptor indexing with large arrays and large blocks
Vulkan 1.2 support is available in Windows driver version 442.86 and Linux driver version 440.66.07. These drivers also contain other new features, performance enhancements and bug fixes for Vulkan developers and enthusiasts.
Linux 440.66.07
