• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Wayland applications to run at lessthan one frame per second on Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal series GPUs.
• Fixed a bug that caused an intermittent drop in desktop framerate.
• Fixed a bug that caused "Flip event timeout" messages to be printed to thesystem log when displays are hotplugged when nvidia-drm is loaded with the`fbdev=1` kernel module parameter.
• Fixed intermittent Xid errors on Horizon Zero Dawn, Metro Exodus,Forza Horizon 5, and Halo Infinite.
• Fixed a bug which prevented the "NoMaxPClkCheck" mode validation tokenfrom working on single-link TMDS (e.g. DVI, HDMI) outputs.
• Fixed a bug that allowed VRR displays to be driven below their minimumrefresh rate, resulting in a blank or flickering image.
• Added an application profile to improve Kwin performance on hybrid GPUsystems by setting OGL_DEDICATED_HW_STATE_PER_CONTEXT=ENABLE_ROBUST.
• Updated the build process for NVIDIA kernel modules to honor theINSTALL_MOD_DIR Kbuild environment variable.
• Added support for R8, GR88 and YCbCr GBM formats.
• Optimized the X driver headless framerate limiter to more closely mimicupstream behavior and prevent it from activating in inconvenientsituations. Added a new X config option "LimitFrameRateWhenHeadless" todisable the headless framerate limiter.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Gamescope from running when using the NVIDIAOpen GPU Kernel modules.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the installer package from being unpackedon systems where zstd is not installed, when /tmp is mounted noexec.
• Use transparent huge pages when available for the .text section. This is done through madvise() calls, and requires CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS.
• Fixed a regression that prevented setting backlight brightness levels.
• Fixed a bug that could lead to UI corruption in nvidia-installer onsystems with more than one initramfs file per kernel.
• Fixed a bug that caused games built on the Source 2 engine to hangwhen running under Xwayland.
• Added experimental HDMI 10 bits per component support; enable by loadingnvidia-modeset with `hdmi_deepcolor=1`.
• Added support for HDR signaling via the HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA andColorspace per-connector DRM properties when nvidia-drm is loaded with the`modeset=1` parameter.
• Added support for PRIME render offload to Vulkan Wayland WSI.
• Added support for the CTM, DEGAMMA_LUT, and GAMMA_LUT DRM-KMS CRTCproperties. These are used by features such as the "Night Light"feature in GNOME and the "Night Color" feature in KDE, when theyare used as Wayland compositors.
• Added beta-quality support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs to open kernel modules. Please see the "Open Linux Kernel Modules" chapter in the README for details.
• Added initial experimental support for runtime D3 (RTD3) powermanagement on Desktop GPUs.  Please see the 'PCI-Express Runtime D3 (RTD3) Power Management' chapter in the README for more details.
• Added support for the EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync EGL extension andthe VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_SYNC_FD_BIT andVK_EXTERNAL_FENCE_HANDLE_TYPE_SYNC_FD_BIT Vulkan external handle typeswhen the nvidia-drm kernel module is loaded with the modeset=1 parameter.
• Added experimental support for framebuffer consoles provided bynvidia-drm. On kernels that implement drm_fbdev_generic_setup anddrm_aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers, nvidia-drm will installa framebuffer console when loaded with both `modeset=1` and `fbdev=1`kernel module parameters. This will replace the Linux boot console drivenby a system framebuffer driver such as efifb or vesafb.
  
  Note that when an nvidia-drm framebuffer console is enabled, unloadingnvidia-drm will cause the screen to turn off.
  
  
• Updated nvidia-installer to allow installing the driver while anexisting NVIDIA driver is already loaded.
• Added support for virtual reality displays, such as the SteamVR platform,on Wayland compositors that support DRM leasing. Support requiresxwayland version 22.1.0 and wayland-protocols version 1.22, or later.Tested on sway, minimum version 1.7 with wlroots version 0.15, and alsoon Kwin, minimum version 5.24.
  
  Note: Before xwayland 23.2, there is a known issue with HDMI displayswhere the headset will fail to start a second time after closing SteamVR.This can be worked around by unplugging and replugging in the headset.
  
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) from workingwith Wayland.
• Changed the name visible in /proc/devices of NVIDIA devices and theNVIDIA control device from "nvidia-frontend" to "nvidia" and "nvidiactl".Scripts which parse /proc/devices (such as udev rules) may need to beupdated. Note that the conventional /dev device paths like /dev/nvidia0and /dev/nvidiactl remain unchanged.
• Added support to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver for running in Xwayland. Pleaserefer to the "Xwayland support in VDPAU" section of the README forfurther details.
• Added libnvidia-gpucomp.so to the driver package. This is a helperlibrary used for GPU shader compilation.
• Removed libnvidia-vulkan-producer.so from the driver package. Thishelper library is no longer needed by the Wayland WSI.

Note that many Linux distributions provide their own packages of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver in the distribution's native package management format. This may interact better with the rest of your distribution's framework, and you may want to use this rather than NVIDIA's official package.

Also note that SuSE users should read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer HOWTO before downloading the driver.

Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.40.07.run

One of the last installation steps will offer to update your X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used, or run nvidia-xconfig

Note that the list of supported GPU products is provided to indicate which GPUs are supported by a particular driver version. Some designs incorporating supported GPUs may not be compatible with the NVIDIA Linux driver: in particular, notebook and all-in-one desktop designs with switchable (hybrid) or Optimus graphics will not work if means to disable the integrated graphics in hardware are not available. Hardware designs will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, so please consult with a system's manufacturer to determine whether that particular system is compatible.

See the README for more detailed instructions.

For further information please visit our forum, https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-unix-graphics/linux/148.

GeForce RTX 40 Series:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

GeForce RTX 30 Series:

GeForce RTX 3050

NVIDIA RTX Series:

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation