nvidia-patch

There is also the unlock for Nvidia encoding which "removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions" https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch So yeah, buy an Nvidia card then download and run all the software needed to make it work to its full potential so Jensen can buy his 500 millionth leather jacket.

The same is true for the simultaneous NVENC video encoding session limit which is artificially locked for consumer NVIDIA GPUs (see https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch)

We should note, this is entirely a Nvidia software imposed limitation, as the hardware can easily handle more, the purpose is to upsell to non-gaming cards. With that being said, its trivial to bypass with tools like: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch Regardless, this does throw a spanner in the works for a video based game streaming solution for P2P multiplayer.

I have been really happy with Sunshine as well. If your server is Linux and you have an NVIDIA card, I would also recommend applying the NVFBC consumer card restriction removal patch[1] to your driver libraries to allow you to capture directly from the GPU rather than X11/Wayland. Sunshine will automatically detect this and use it and it reduces the latency even further. [1] https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch

Pretty clean shell script: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/blob/master/patch.sh Surprised there are no protection/obfuscation methods against patching the `.so` in this fashion. No checksums, signatures, etc.

> CUDA, and pretty much all optimization(hacks) done to run games better And arbitrary limitations implemented at the driver level to force you to purchase their enterprise GPUs, see https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch#nvenc-and-nvfbc-patc... I wouldn't be surprised if there are more as of yet undiscovered limitations that they've added in that are just pure money grabs with no technical merit.

Nvidia has no motivation to make a consumer card with lots of VRAM, that's basically the only (relevant) separator between the GeForce family and the Quadro lineup. There are restrictions on NVENC streams with consumer cards, but that has been a solved problem for a while [0]. If they were to make a consumer card with more VRAM, it would immediately undercut their own Quadro/Tesla lineup, which cost substantially more. I don't see a reason for them to do it. 0: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch

> I'm pretty sure you can't use Linux as a host machine though, which really sucks. There is a moonlight host for linux called Sunshine [1]. Works great on Ubuntu and Arch. Just note that it'll use software encoding unless your nvidia driver is patched to enable NvFBC, using nvlax or nvidia-patch [2]. But for non-gaming use, software encoding is more than sufficient with minimal latency compared to vnc. [1] https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine [2] https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch

Related but different: - nvidia-patch [0] "This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs." - About a week ago "NVIDIA Now Allows GeForce GPU Pass-Through For Windows VMs On Linux" [1]. Note, this is only for the driver on Windows VM guests not GNU/Linux guests. Hopefully the project in the OP will mean that GPU access is finally possible on GNU/Linux guests on Xen, thank you for sharing OP. [0]: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch [1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-G...

Not so much a new driver, but here is an example of drivers being patched for mining. https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch

https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch Basically just lets my Plex server transcode more streams at once without having a Quadro.

You remeber rightly, but like all artificial restrictions people who care can get around them: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch

Yep, this is exactly how we publish patch suite which unlocks NVENC sessions and NvFBC on Nvidia drivers: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch IPFS mirrors: Site: https://ipfs.io/ipns/QmYTEwv2GjQhtdN9bDfpLfQrVD7YLb1Sbh8igX8... Git: git clone https://ipfs.io/ipns/Qmed4r8yrBP162WK1ybd1DJWhLUi4t6mGuBoB9fLtjxR7u nvidia-patch