Steam On Linux Tries Again For Video Hardware Acceleration By Default On NVIDIA GPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam On Linux Tries Again For Video Hardware Acceleration By Default On NVIDIA GPUs

Last month Steam on Linux aimed to enable NVIDIA GPU video hardware acceleration by default but ultimately ran into problems. With Tuesday's Steam beta update they hope to have that resolved and re-enabled the NVIDIA GPU video hardware acceleration by default...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-Video-Tries-Again

[novideo]

release notes don't say anything about video

[ezst036]

Did Nvidia offer any assistance at all?

[MorrisS.]

It's a good news, since Nvidia GPUs actually provide the best performance when it is involved by hardware acceleration.

[discordian]

Did Nvidia offer any assistance at all?

Supporting a DRM client for Linux? They aren't that evil.

[aschmidtm]

“NVIDIA GPUs with their proprietary Linux g raphics driver”

assuming should be:

“NVIDIA GPUs with their proprietary Linux graphics driver”

[scottishduck]

This was probably one of the main sticking points for a desktop ISO release

[anarki2]

The year of the Linux desktop!