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NVIDIA officially announces the release of NVIDIA 349.16 Beta with new addition along with minor bugfixes. Well this is another beta version availale for testing purposes. This release might surprise the new users because it includes support for new GPUs along with newly added features.

According to official announcement, NVIDIA 349.16 Beta comes with support for new GPUs such as Quadro K1200, M6000, GeForce 920M, 930A, 930M, GTX 950M, GTX 960M. It also includes support for G-SYNC monitors when used together with non-G-SYNC monitors and added support for lossless H.264/AVC video streams to VDPAU along with added support for VDPAU feature set F to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver.

This release also includes nvidia-settings commandline support to query the current and targeted GPU fan speed, a checkbox to nvidia-settings to enable a visual indicator that shows when G-SYNC is being used, support for X.Org X server's "-background none" option, support for YUV 4:2:0 compression to enable HDMI 2.0 4K@60Hz modes when either the display or GPU is incapable of driving these modes in RGB 4:4:4. You can also download the latest NVIDIA 349.16 Beta to install it on your Linux Distro.

Apart from these new features, NVIDIA 349.16 Beta also includes minor bugfixes such as fixed bug that could caused multi-threaded applications to crash when multiple threads used the EGL driver at the same time, fixed a bug that caused Sync to VBlank to not work correctly with XVideo applications in certain configurations and fixed a bug that caused corruption when switching display modes in some applications that use transform feedback. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install latest NVIDIA 349.16 Beta Driver using PPA on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint, and other PPA based Linux Distros.

Step Wise Installation of NVIDIA 349.16 Beta Driver using PPA on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for NVIDIA 349.16 Beta Driver on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for NVIDIA 349.16 Beta driver in the software repository of your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest NVIDIA 349.16 Beta Driver on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Now you can play your favorite games which require NVIDIA graphics driver.

NVIDIA developers officially announces the release of NVIDIA 343.36 driver with few new additions and several bugfixes. This is the most advanced stable version of NVIDIA driver available for Linux Distros. With the rapid increase in Linux usage, NVIDIA making its reputation among Linux users by providing graphics driver for Linux users.

According to official announcement, NVIDIA 343.36 driver comes with support for X.Org xserver ABI 19 along with improved compatibility with recent Linux Kernels. It also implemented support for disabling indirect GLX context creation using the -glx option available on X.Org server release 1.16 and newer. The future X.Org server releases may make the -iglx option the default.

This release also adds "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" X config option which is used to disallow use of GLX protocol. Apart from these minor new additions, this release also includes several bugfixes like fixed a regression which prevents NVIDIA X driver from recognizing Base Mosaic layouts generated by nvidia-settings control panel. It also fixes a bug which causes incorrect colors to be displayed on X screens running at depth 8 on some GPUs. Also, review recent Software News to know what's new in software world ?

Among other bugfixes, it includes fixing a bug that prevents GPUs from being correctly recognized in MetaMode strings when ientified by UUID, fixed a bug which causes VT-switching to fail following a suspend, resume and driver reload sequence and fixed a crash with UnrealEngine 4 when the application was started with the -opengl4 commandline switch. For other list of fixes, you must visit their official release notes page.

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NVIDIA team officially announces the release of NVIDIA 343.13 Beta with minor new changes and several bug fixes. This release mainly includes minor new updates along with bug fixes which were reported in earlier version. This is a maintenance release which is primarily available for testing purposes.

According to official announcement, NVIDIA 343.13 Beta comes with addition of new attribute to NV-CONTROL API to query the current utilization of the video decode engine. It also includes support for multiple simulateous EGL displays and remove support for G8x, G9x and GT2xx GPUs and motherboard chipsets based on them. The ongoing support for new Linux Kernel and X servers will be included in 340.x series.

NVIDIA 343.13 Beta also includes updated nvidia-installer to log uninstallation to a separate file from the installation log and attempt uninstalling previous driver installations using installer program from previous installations.  It also includes fixed memory leakage while destroying EGL surfaces. You can also download NVIDIA 343.13 Beta driver for Linux Distros.

Apart from these updates, this release also includes minor bug fixes such as fixed a bug which causes disabled displays to be implicitly included in target selection for some queries and assignments on the nvidia-settings command line interface in the absence of any explicit target selection. It also fixes a bug where Exchange Stereo Eyes setting in nvidia-settings didn't work in certain stereo configurations. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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NVIDIA is a famous graphics driver which is available for multiple platforms. The edger announces the PPA for NVIDIA 331.89, so that Ubuntu and other PPA based Linux Distro users can install it on their respective systems. The latest stable NVIDIA 331.89 is available with several bug fixes and minor new changes.

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install NVIDIA 331.89 (Graphics Processing Unit Driver) on our Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

Step 1 : First open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for NVIDIA 331.89 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA of NVIDIA 331.89 in the software repository on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest stable NVIDIA 331.89 driver on your PPA based Linux Distros.

After installation, you can verify the version of NVIDIA and configure its settings on your machine.

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NVIDIA developers officially announces the release of NVIDIA 340.46 driver for all Linux Distro with minor bug fixes and few new additions. There are lot of development branches of NVIDIA drivers for Linux system and this release comes under Long Lived branch. Soon this release will be updated to repositories of various Linux Distros.

According to official announcement, NVIDIA 340.46 driver for Linux comes with new option UseSysmemPixmapAccel to control the use of GPU acceleration for X drawing operations on pixmaps allocated in system memory. It also fixes a bug which could prevent the GLSL compiler from correctly evaluating some expressions when compiling shaders. You can also download NVIDIA 340.46 Driver for Linux distros.

The NVIDIA 340.46 driver for Linux also includes fixed OpenGL issue which causes glReadPixels() operations to be improperly clipped when resizing composited application windows, potentially leading to momentary X freezes and fixed a bug which causes nvidia-installer to crash while attempting to run nvidia-xconfig on systems where that utility is missing. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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