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SC Controller, the driver and UI for the Steam Controller is being rewritten to be more portable

By Liam Dawe,
19
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.
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NVIDIA released a new 415.13 beta driver recently for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
20
One I completely forgot to post about here, NVIDIA recently released the 415.13 beta driver for Linux.
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SC Controller driver and UI version 0.4.5 is out, last release for a while

By Liam Dawe,
259
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.
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NVIDIA have released the 410.57 driver as well as a 396.54.06 Vulkan beta driver to help DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
36
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.
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One of the fine folks in the Intel Mesa driver team has written up a post on their work improving games in DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
19
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.
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For those on NVIDIA, the 396.54.05 driver seems to have some noteworthy performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
26
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.
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Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further

By Liam Dawe,
16
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.
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NVIDIA are working towards better support for NVIDIA Optimus on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
37
Thanks to a little Twitter tip, we've learned today that NVIDIA are indeed working to provide better support for NVIDIA Optimus on Linux.
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SC Controller, incredibly useful UI/Driver for the Steam Controller has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
7
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.
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NVIDIA pushed out two new Linux drivers recently with 396.45 and 390.77

By Liam Dawe,
22
NVIDIA are pushing forward with improving their Linux driver in many areas, with two driver series seeing updated in the past week.
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Mesa now supports OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile for radeonsi

By Liam Dawe,
23
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.
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xpadneo is an 'advanced' Linux driver for the Xbox One S wireless gamepad

By Liam Dawe,
9
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.
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The excellent SC Controller project adds Bluetooth support

By Liam Dawe,
12
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.
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Mesa 18.1 is out with the shader cache on for Intel

By Liam Dawe,
20
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.
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NVIDIA 396.18 beta driver is out with a new Vulkan SPIR-V compiler to reduce shader compilation time

By Liam Dawe,
20
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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NVIDIA dropping support for 32bit Linux this month, also dropping Fermi series support

By Liam Dawe,
39
If you're an NVIDIA user still on 32bit, you might want to think about finally updating as this month NVIDIA will be moving to only providing critical security updates for 32bit systems.
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Mesa 18.0 released, further advancing Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
54
Mesa 18.0 has been officially released today after a bit of a wait, further advancing Linux graphics drivers.
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AMD have now officially open-sourced their 'AMDVLK' Linux Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe,
17
Typical really, the day after I do a review of 2017 and mention how AMD announced they would finally release it, but still didn't, they then go and do it today.
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Mesa 17.3.0 released to further advance open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
5
Mesa 17.3.0 is the latest version of the open source graphics drivers and it has officially released today.
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NVIDIA has confirmed a driver bug resulting in a loss of performance on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
36
It seems there's a performance bug in recent NVIDIA drivers that has been causing a loss of performance across likely all GPUs.
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