I noticed that NVIDIA has recently released nvidia-driver 570. Do you think it's safe to upgrade? Has anyone tried it out?

I remember that 565 was quite buggy [www.sidefx.com] and I experienced this personally when I had to use it for a short time. I rolled back to 550 as soon as I could (blessed be the Timeshift devs).

I installed 570.86.16 on my Linux Mint 22.1, and it has been great so far, granted I have been using Axiom for smoke sim stuff, and Renderman XPU for rendering. So I am not using SideFx native stuff. But creating nodes, hopping around the UI.. not a problem.

Update: I just loaded EsperRoom demo scene, and I used Karma XPU and everything is running great. No cyan tint or crashing with cuda errors.

I appreciate the info, Todd. I gave the driver a try this week, but I've run into some serious issues (on Debian).

It turns out that nvidia-smifor 570 is still unavailable (I should have checked that before proceeding with the upgrade). Last version is for 560, and this version cannot be installed for 575.51.03 due to missing dependencies (I'm installing the drivers from NVIDIA's upstream repo, and not with the .runexecutable). The driver worked, but after a while I noticed that I was missing nvidia-settings, so I proceeded with its installation. And then, for some unknown reason, after I installed the package, the kernel was no longer able to load the driver on boot. So in consequence, after several hours spent on an unsuccessful task of "debugging", I had to timeshift back to a snapshot with 550.54.15-1.

I have to say that the recent NVIDIA drivers (>= 560) became very unreliable (euphemistically speaking).

Hey ajz3d,

I use a PPA to install my nvidia drivers. I have never used native Debian, so I am not sure if that is an option. I know it is in Ubuntu and Linux Mint. I have never had any issue with nvidia drivers. The ppa-graphics packaged driver works well with the following:
1) Kernel updates
2) All utilites installed (nvidia-smi) (nvidia-settings), etc..
3) I get notified when there is an update to the production driver.

Todd