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Another patch to help The Witcher 2's issues with 'black transitions' has landed in Mesa-git

By Liam Dawe,
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Marek Olšák sent in another patch to Mesa that is now in Mesa-git which should hopefully be a better fix for black transitions in The Witcher 2 on radeonsi (AMD).
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A new radeonsi (Mesa) patch should fix issues in many games for AMD GPU owners

By Liam Dawe,
20
Samuel Pitoiset (Valve) discovered an issue in radeonsi (Mesa) that Marek Olšák has now patched up and is already in Mesa-git.
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The open source Vulkan driver 'radv' for AMD on Linux has patches for geometry shader support

By Liam Dawe,
9
Dave Airlie sent in a massive patch-set of 31 patches for 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver, to support geometry shaders.
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Mesa 17-rc1 released, it's a massive update for open source graphics

By Liam Dawe,
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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.
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NVIDIA 378.09 beta driver released, adds OpenGL threaded optimizations by default and more

By Liam Dawe,
10
A pretty interesting NVIDIA beta driver has landed and it officially enables their OpenGL threaded optimizations by default.
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The release of Mesa 17 has seen a bit of a delay, for all the right reasons

By Liam Dawe,
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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.
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The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' now supports using multiple GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
15
A commit that just landed in Mesa-git allows for 'radv', the open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to use multiple devices.
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Intel Haswell now supports OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa-git on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
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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.
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OpenGL 4.3 now available in Mesa for nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above

By Liam Dawe,
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Samuel Pitoiset (Valve developer) just put some fresh work into Mesa-git that enables OpenGL 4.3 with nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above.
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Haswell should now see OpenGL 4.2 thanks to recent work in Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
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Mesa is continuing to progress rapidly, as of today Haswell should now support OpenGL 4.2 ready for the next release of Mesa.
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A Valve developer has released a tool to debug AMD graphics cards on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
8
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.
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Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi

By Liam Dawe,
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Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has tweeted out asking for information on Linux games that don't currently work with radeonsi.
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Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi

By Liam Dawe,
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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.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown should now work properly with radeonsi

By Liam Dawe,
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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.
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Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers

By Liam Dawe,
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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.
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Mesa git has pulled in the patches from Marek to improve Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
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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.
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Mesa 13.0.3 released with numerous bugfixes

By Samsai,
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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.
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Intel Haswell now has support for OpenGL 4

By Liam Dawe,
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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.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is about to get ~70% better performance with RadeonSI

By Liam Dawe,
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Marek sent in a patch for RadeonSI that will look to increase performance of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by around 70%.
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System76 have been working with NVIDIA on Linux driver fixes, a chat with the System76 community manager

By Liam Dawe,
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System76, the Linux hardware supplier for laptops, desktops and more has been working with NVIDIA on fixing up their drivers.
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