the 595 Beta driver is about 2.6% faster in the geometric mean
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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Nice, does it still require flatpak updates with every driver release?
Never heard of installing nvidia drivers through flatpak, or are you referring to something else
Flatpak cannot access the host GPU drivers, so there are runtimes for NVIDIA drivers.
What they are referring to is that the driver version on the host must match the driver version installed as a flatpak runtime. Otherwise, you may get graphical issues and crashes.
Yes that. I had a hell of a time trying to play some steam games until I figured this out. I just bought a laptop with a radeon GPU because, I didn't have time for this nonsense.
This driver had the vk heap descriptor -thingydoods? does DXVK or VKD3D have those implemented yet?
does DXVK or VKD3D have those implemented yet?
Not yet. The gains should be much bigger than this when those are done.
So I keep hearing. Here's hoping it ends up being the case.
Switched entirely over to linux mid-cyberpunk playthrough and the game just about barely holds 60 fps in places where it used to be in the 90's on Windows. :P