Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by brokenmachine on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:31AM (#34979107)

Yes, the .run drivers from Nvidia.

It only happens on a reboot, not while I'm using it, and only maybe once a month, but it's still annoying because I have to ssh in to reinstall the drivers every time.

And here I was all hyped that AMD would be my savior. I hope you're wrong!!

I'll find out for myself the next time I upgrade and I switch the current AMD card that I'm using on my Windows PC into the ubuntu system.

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Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by oynqr on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:14AM (#34979604)

Using the driver from their site is the number one way to fuck up your system. There has got to be an nvidia package on Ubuntu.

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Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by brokenmachine on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:20PM (#34989756)

In my experience the ubuntu nvidia packages were hopeless, I forget exactly what it was but I think even basic stuff like hardware video decoding was not working.

Anyway just basic stuff wasn't working and IIRC the GPU fans would stay at 100% all the time. Just terribly broken.

I'm overall happy with the .run drivers from the site except when they come up at the wrong resolution and need reinstalling as I described.

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Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by lmm on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:51AM (#34981321)

> Yes, the .run drivers from Nvidia.

If you're manually installing them outside of Ubuntu package management then you need to reinstall them every time you upgrade your kernel. (This is a design decision by Linux to make life harder for closed source drivers, there's nothing Nvidia can do about it)

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