Has anyone had positive results from trying the new Nvidia 560 drivers out there yet? No one usually reports good feedback, it would be great to get some if it’s usable or not yet particularly for Plasma Wayland.
Watching the Nvidia Linux forum thread about it, it seems to have been pretty rough around Plasma and gaming with some bugs they’re fixing, but not sure how many others were actually successful outside corner cases in certain distros.
I’m using arch, and have been putting off doing system upgrades until nvidia 555/560 drivers work themselves out that I can finally use Wayland with any success. I’m currently on 550.76 drivers and Plasma 6.0.4 without issues in xorg, but wayland has been unusable with the explicit sync and x compatibility, and really hoping this to be resolved (or at least mostly).
I’m testing 555 and it is stable for me. Unlike 545 which is a disaster in Wayland I discovered, I have no particular issues with it other than some high fps OGL benchmarks that are off by about 15% in Wayland. VKD3D is far worse in Wayland with some titles like Cyberpunk 2077 being down upwards of 66% in FPS.
Performance in X is stable and the same as it has always been, though I did notice a very long screen wakeup time (just the screens, the PC was still awake) but I am putting that down to some widgets I am testing (like the binary clock… very cool - if I ever get a smart watch, that is the face I am using).
Otherwise, in both Wayland and X the desktop is stable. I have had no crashes, glitches, or oddities other than the one mentioned. There is one recent occurrence for those running Intel 13th and 14th gen CPUs and that is a high voltage problem, and an oxidization problem that are both now acknowledged by Intel to be already know by them, and the instability caused often seems to be GPU and driver related, when its in fact the CPU.
FWIW, I’m using Fedora 40 KDE Spin, currently with Plasma 6.1.3 and Nvidia drivers 555.58.02, with no issues that I can tell. I don’t do a bunch of high-level gaming, but I’ve tried some pretty recent (to me) games like Marvel’s Spiderman and am able to run them well at max settings.
The desktop itself was oddly stuttering on my more recent Nvidia card (RTX 4070) until I added nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 to my kernel parameters, since the GSP offloading is apparently still buggy in the Nvidia drivers apparently, but since figuring that out, everything has been pretty darn smooth and beautiful.