NVIDIA 565 Linux Graphics Driver Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

NVIDIA released today NVIDIA 565.77 as the first stable version of the NVIDIA 565 graphics driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems with various improvements and multiple bug fixes.

The NVIDIA 565.77 graphics driver is here more than three months after the

It also introduces a driver optimization to mitigate the performance loss from the ‘d3d9.floatEmulation’ option in

Furthermore, NVIDIA 565.77 adds a new application profile key called “GLVidHeapReuseRatio” to control the amount of memory OpenGL may hold for later reuse, updates the kernel module build process to use CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT from the Linux kernel’s Kconfig to detect the compiler used to build the kernel, and improves the ability of the

Several bugs have been addressed in the NVIDIA 565 graphics driver series, including a bug causing the suspend and resume functions to fail when using the

Also fixed is a regression that could cause some apps to exit due to resource exhaustion on some NVIDIA GPUs when using the GSP firmware, a bug that could cause flickering in some apps when using Unified Back Buffer (UBB), as well as a bug that could cause apps using the GBM memory allocation API to crash when running with the

The list of bug fixes continues with a fix for a bug in i2c handling that caused the OpenRGB Application to set incorrect LED colors on some NVIDIA GPUs, a fix for a crash in the nvidia-settings control panel when using X11 forwarding, as well as a fix for a bug that could cause the

Moreover, NVIDIA 565.77 fixes a bug that prevented kernel modules linked using precompiled kernel interface files from loading on recent

Last but not least, the NVIDIA 565 graphics driver series fixes some performance regressions that occurred with Vkd3d 2.9, fixes a bug that could cause incorrect and/or washed-out colors to be displayed with HDR scanout, and fixes a bug that could cause kernel crashes upon attempting KMS operations through DRM when nvidia_drm was loaded with the

This release also changes the fallback preference from 10 BPC YUV422 to 8 BPC RGB + dithering when enabling HDR scanout with limited display bandwidth. Check out the