On August 3rd, NVIDIA quietly shipped two Linux driver branches on the same day: the new feature branch 610.57.04 and the stable 595.91.07. The stable release is the usual "minor bug fixes and improvements" non-answer, but 610.57.04 is a different story — it carries an unusually large fix list for a point release, and if you're gaming on Linux with an NVIDIA card, it's worth grabbing now instead of leaving it to rot in your package manager.
What actually got fixed
More than 20 titles are patched in this release, several of which had been broken for weeks or months:
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl — crash with VK_DEVICE_LOST
Assetto Corsa EVO — incorrectly wrapped textures
Monster Hunter Wilds — crash at the main menu (driver reporting the GPU as unresponsive)
Forza Horizon 6 — GPU hangs tied to the VKD3D-Proton descriptor heap feature
Elden Ring and Elden Ring Nightreign
Plus fixes touching Assassin's Creed Origins, Total War: Warhammer III, Crimson Desert, X-Plane, and a long tail of smaller titles (007 First Light, Grounded 2, Star Rupture, Windrose, and others)
Outside of gaming fixes, two changes matter for general desktop stability:
A fix for an X Server crash under GLX indirect rendering
A fix for black screens after modesets in X11 apps using the Present extension
For anyone running a Turing-generation GPU or newer, installation has also gotten noticeably less painful — modeset configuration is now handled automatically, closer to a plug-and-play experience than the manual dance NVIDIA-on-Linux has traditionally required.
Should you actually install it?
If you're not chasing bleeding-edge features and just want the most predictable driver, 595.91.07 (the parallel stable release) is the safer pick. But if any of the games above have been giving you trouble, or you've been holding off on an update because previous 610-branch builds felt rough, this specific point release is the one that closes out most of those complaints — 610.57.04 was the first release in the R610 feature branch back in late May, and this is the point release that actually fixes what broke on launch.
The installer is available directly from NVIDIA (~442 MB), with DKMS, RPM, and deb packages supported out of the box. If you're new to NVIDIA-on-Linux, installing through the .run file is still not the recommended path for beginners — wait for your distro's packaged version if you can, since it's much harder to break.
Full verdict and version comparison
I run this driver daily on my own homelab/gaming setup, so I put together a deeper breakdown — full version comparison table, install notes, and my actual verdict after running it for real — over on El Rack:
👉 Driver NVIDIA 610.57.04 para Linux
(Spanish-language site — the specs table, version numbers, and rating are readable regardless, and translation tools handle the rest cleanly if you want the full writeup.)
I write about homelab, self-hosting, and Linux gaming at El Rack — real testing from inside my own homelab, not just a spec sheet rewrite.
