Summary of existing issues with the nVidia proprietary driver

Updating this tracking thread for the nVidia 570.133.07 Production Branch driver release.

Currently afftected by 5 issues with nVidia Linux drivers.

New bug reports attached and further details have been submitted for each individual issue.


  1. Use-after free error
  1. Chrome/Electron VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER errors at launch.
  1. GTK4 application tooltips and popover dialogs are stretched/distorted/frozen. This affects the GL and NGL renderers
  1. GTK4 apps background CPU usage and application crash-on-exit with Vulkan renderer. This is a showstopper for using the default Vulkan GTK4 renderer.
  1. Nvidia driver isn’t compatible with simpledrm so boot output and TTYs are blank

Latest stack:
  • Arch Linux | Kernel 6.13.7
  • Gnome-shell | Mutter 48.0
  • Wayland (meson_options: xwayland=false, x11=false)
  • Gtk4 4.18.2
  • Mesa 25.0.2
  • vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.304
  • nVidia 570.133.07

I will continue to update this tracking thread for each successive driver release.

3 Likes