The excellent SC Controller gamepad tool has two fresh releases available
Do not adjust your monitor, you did read the correctly. SC Controller, the excellent tool that started off just for configuring the Steam Controller has two new releases out.
Category: Drivers
NVIDIA driver 415.22 is out for Linux, finally adding Transform Feedback support
Finally, after waiting for a few months NVIDIA has released a new mainline driver which includes Transform Feedback support.
Mesa 18.3.0 for those of you using the open source drivers
For those of you using Intel and AMD (and some older NVIDIA cards) Mesa 18.3.0 was officially released today.
NVIDIA have released another new beta Vulkan driver, fixes issues with Unity games
After NVIDIA updated their beta Vulkan drivers recently, it came with a pretty big issue they've now corrected.
NVIDIA have released the 415.18.02 Vulkan beta driver
For those interested, NVIDIA have now updated their special Vulkan beta drivers with 415.18.02 so they're a little less behind.
SC Controller, the driver and UI for the Steam Controller is being rewritten to be more portable
If you've read GamingOnLinux regularly, you will likely know how I am a big fan of SC Controller. It's a user-made driver and interface for using and mapping the Steam Controller. It's also now going under some major changes.
NVIDIA released a new 415.13 beta driver recently for Linux
One I completely forgot to post about here, NVIDIA recently released the 415.13 beta driver for Linux.
SC Controller driver and UI version 0.4.5 is out, last release for a while
The amazingly useful SC Controller project, a third-party open source driver and user interface for the Steam Controller has a new release out. Sadly, the last for a while.
NVIDIA have released the 410.57 driver as well as a 396.54.06 Vulkan beta driver to help DXVK
Along with the release of the GeForce RTX 2080 GPU series NVIDIA have put out a new 410.57 driver to support it. Additionally, there's a new Vulkan beta driver which should help DXVK.
One of the fine folks in the Intel Mesa driver team has written up a post on their work improving games in DXVK
Writing on their personal blog, Jason Ekstrand from the Intel Mesa team has written up some information on what they've been doing to improve the Intel drivers on Linux.
For those on NVIDIA, the 396.54.05 driver seems to have some noteworthy performance improvements
It seems NVIDIA have been working on some improvements to their Linux driver, as the 396.54.05 beta driver seems to have improved performance in various games.
Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further
Released yesterday, both Mesa 18.1.8 as a bug-fix release and Mesa 18.2.0 as the latest full release of the open source graphics drivers are now out.
NVIDIA are working towards better support for NVIDIA Optimus on Linux
Thanks to a little Twitter tip, we've learned today that NVIDIA are indeed working to provide better support for NVIDIA Optimus on Linux.
SC Controller, incredibly useful UI/Driver for the Steam Controller has a new release
If you ever have issues with games not picking up your Steam Controller correctly, you should probably take a look at the excellent SC Controller project.
NVIDIA pushed out two new Linux drivers recently with 396.45 and 390.77
NVIDIA are pushing forward with improving their Linux driver in many areas, with two driver series seeing updated in the past week.
Mesa now supports OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile for radeonsi
Good news for those of you using an AMD GPU, as Mesa with radeonsi now has support for compatibility profiles up to OpenGL 4.4.
xpadneo is an 'advanced' Linux driver for the Xbox One S wireless gamepad
xpadneo seems like an interesting project for those of you who own the Xbox One S wireless gamepad, allowing you to connect it Bluetooth with other fun features.
The excellent SC Controller project adds Bluetooth support
SC Controller, the rather great driver and user interface for working with the Steam Controller (and now many others) outside of Steam recently added Bluetooth support.
Mesa 18.1 is out with the shader cache on for Intel
Open source drivers on Linux have advanced rather quickly and now we have another fresh release out with Mesa 18.1 which was released yesterday.
NVIDIA 396.18 beta driver is out with a new Vulkan SPIR-V compiler to reduce shader compilation time
The new NVIDIA 396.18 beta is officially out and it's one of the more interesting driver releases from NVIDIA.
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