Mesa 17-rc1 released, it's a massive update for open source graphics
Mesa 17 (formerly Mesa 13.1) has it's first Release Candidate and it's a pretty big release for users of open source graphic drivers.
Category: Drivers
NVIDIA 378.09 beta driver released, adds OpenGL threaded optimizations by default and more
A pretty interesting NVIDIA beta driver has landed and it officially enables their OpenGL threaded optimizations by default.
The release of Mesa 17 has seen a bit of a delay, for all the right reasons
Mesa 17, the next stable release of the open source graphics drivers on Linux has been a bit delayed, due to so much last minute work going on. Looks like Intel Ivy Bridge will get OpenGL 4.0.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' now supports using multiple GPUs
A commit that just landed in Mesa-git allows for 'radv', the open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to use multiple devices.
Intel Haswell now supports OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa-git on Linux
In another push towards Mesa finishing OpenGL for all vendors where possible, Intel Haswell chips now have support for OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa on Linux.
OpenGL 4.3 now available in Mesa for nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above
Samuel Pitoiset (Valve developer) just put some fresh work into Mesa-git that enables OpenGL 4.3 with nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above.
Haswell should now see OpenGL 4.2 thanks to recent work in Mesa
Mesa is continuing to progress rapidly, as of today Haswell should now support OpenGL 4.2 ready for the next release of Mesa.
A Valve developer has released a tool to debug AMD graphics cards on Linux
Andres Rodriguez sent in a message to the mesa-dev mailing list announcing 'gputool' for debugging AMD graphics cards on Linux. It's also open source under the GPL, so that's awesome.
Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has tweeted out asking for information on Linux games that don't currently work with radeonsi.
Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi
Mesa has another patch that will be interesting for Linux gamers. This is actually a two-part fix as it was re-worked. The Witcher 2 should have a lot less black flickering with this latest patch.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown should now work properly with radeonsi
If you had tried playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown (not to be confused with XCOM 2) on radeonsi and had it crash constantly, the good news is that this should now be fixed as of Mesa 13.0.3.
Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers
Divinity: Original Sin is one game that the open source Mesa drivers currently cannot run without hacks, but it looks like the Mesa team has been testing it.
Mesa git has pulled in the patches from Marek to improve Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Linux
I recently pointed out that Marek sent in patches to the Mesa list which could improve Deus Ex: Mankind Divided performance on RadeonSI around 70%, well all of the patches are now in Mesa git.
Mesa 13.0.3 released with numerous bugfixes
The open source OpenGL implementation Mesa has a new release 13.0.3 which, as the minor version bump indicates, brings a number of bug fixes to RadeonSI and Intel.
Intel Haswell now has support for OpenGL 4
The Mesa developers are as usual continuing their effort to get the open source Linux graphic drivers up to scratch. Intel Haswell (gen7) now has support for OpenGL 4.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is about to get ~70% better performance with RadeonSI
Marek sent in a patch for RadeonSI that will look to increase performance of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by around 70%.
System76 have been working with NVIDIA on Linux driver fixes, a chat with the System76 community manager
System76, the Linux hardware supplier for laptops, desktops and more has been working with NVIDIA on fixing up their drivers.
Nvidia 375.26, 340.101 and 304.134 driver releases are now available
Nvidia have pushed out three new driver updates today. One for their latest stable branch and two for older hardware.
Stefan Achatz, the developer who helps get Roccat devices properly working on Linux to end his work
Sad news for fans of Roccat hardware as the sole developer working on Roccat device support, Stefan Achatz, is stepping down from his work.
Marek sent in a patch to fix a 9 year old bug with Mesa, helps radeonsi with multiple games
This is quite an amazing little fix. Marek sent in a patch for Mesa that fixes a bug that has apparently been an issue for around 9 years.
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