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There's a new Linux driver for the Guitar Hero Live (PS3) and Wii U Guitar devices

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2020

Do you have a Guitar Hero Live (PS3) 6-fret guitar or perhaps one from the Wii U that you want to use on Linux? Prepare to dust them off.

NVIDIA release another fresh Vulkan Beta Driver - 455.26.01

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2020

NVIDIA just quietly released another fresh update to their special developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver.

NVIDIA driver 455.28 is out for Linux, new GPU support and lots of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2020

NVIDIA have produced a brand new stable Linux driver with version 455.28, which adds in new GPU support and there's plenty of fixes for us too.

NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2020

NVIDIA have pushed out a fresh update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver series, here's the highlights and what's changed.

Open source graphics drivers get a boost with Mesa 20.2.0 out now

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

The latest and greatest in open source graphics drivers has released with Mesa 20.2.0, although you should wait on it if you're after a stable experience.

Watch the ACO shader compiler and Vulkan Ray Tracing talks from XDC 2020

By Liam Dawe, 18 Sep 2020

With XDC 2020 (X.Org Developers Conference) in full swing, we've been going over the various presentations to gather some interesting bits for you. Here's more on the ACO shader compiler and Vulkan Ray Tracing.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is out today, some details for you (plus new driver release)

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2020

As if you forgot, right? Today, the real next generation in gaming begins, with the release of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 as the first in the desktop Ampere architecture.

NVIDIA have a small new Vulkan Beta Driver bug-fix release up

By Liam Dawe, 10 Sep 2020

Yesterday, September 9, NVIDIA released a new update to their Vulkan Beta Driver series to clean up some lingering bugs found. One of which should help Wine.

NVIDIA and accelerated Xwayland gets closer with code that 'sounds unpleasant'

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2020

Red Hat developer Adam Jackson has opened a new merge request for the Mesa project, with what they're calling GLX Delay, to bring accelerated GLX for Xwayland with the NVIDIA driver.

Valve gets another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers, starting with AMD RADV

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

It appears that Valve aren't stopping their push to improve Linux gaming, as they just recently hired another developer to help improve open source graphics drivers.

Linux support for ASUS ROG laptops is coming along nicely

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jul 2020

Back in April we revealed the ROG-Core project, with an aim to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux and it seems it's really coming along nicely now.

NVIDIA 450.56.02 Vulkan Beta Driver is out for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jul 2020

NVIDIA continue expanding their Linux driver support, with a fresh Vulkan Beta Driver going live today.

FOSS OpenXR runtime 'Monado' gets Lighthouse positional tracking with libsurvive

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jul 2020

Are you as excited as we are about the future of VR and AR (collectively known as XR)? It's hard not to be with the excellent progress going on with Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 450.56.01 out, Ray Tracing and bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2020

Shortly after giving us a brand new stable mainline driver, the NVIDIA driver team have released a new developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver.

NVIDIA 450.57 is out for Linux with DLSS and NGX, Image Sharpening plus more

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2020

NVIDIA today just released a big new stable driver for Linux with 450.57. It pulls in a whole bunch of big features from the recent 450.51 Beta.

Open source OpenXR runtime 'Monado' expands with multi-application support

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

Monado is the in-development OpenXR runtime for VR / AR on Linux and Collabora continue to make excellent progress on bringing it up to eventually support more platforms and features.

Mesa 20.2 gets Valve-backed ACO shader compiler on by default for AMD RADV

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

With the upcoming release of Mesa 20.2 which should hopefully be in late August, it seems AMD GPU owners will get a nice boost thanks to the Valve-backed ACO shader compiler.

Mesa 20.2 driver update due hopefully by the end of August

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2020

The Mesa open source Linux driver team have put up their updated roadmap for the upcoming version 20.2 version.

NVIDIA released a big new mainline Linux Beta Driver 450.51

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2020

Not long after the recent developer-focused 440.66.17 Vulkan Beta, NVIDIA have released the 450.51 Linux Beta Driver in their mainline series that's for us consumers to jump in with.