Mesa 17-rc2 released, stable version still expected next month
Emil Velikov has announced the second release candidate for Mesa 17, the next stable version of the open source graphics drivers on Linux.
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Timothee Besset is working on fixing the long 'hangs' Mesa users get in Rocket League
Game porter Timothee Besset, who did the Rocket League port, has posted on the bug report about Rocket League freezing up a lot on Mesa to note that he has started working on the issue.
Mesa now has a patch to enable a shader cache for radeonsi (AMD)
This will probably be to the delight of many AMD graphics card owners who use the open source Mesa graphics drivers: A patch has been sent into the Mesa-dev mailing list for radeonsi to 'Add disk shader cache'.
Mesa 12.0.6 released with bug fixes for the older stable version, users encouraged to update to Mesa 13
Mesa 12.0.6 has released and it brings with it a bunch of bug fixes. While the latest stable version is Mesa 13.0.3, those sticking with the older Mesa 12 will still like their fixes.
Another patch to help The Witcher 2's issues with 'black transitions' has landed in Mesa-git
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).
A new radeonsi (Mesa) patch should fix issues in many games for AMD GPU owners
Samuel Pitoiset (Valve) discovered an issue in radeonsi (Mesa) that Marek Olšák has now patched up and is already in Mesa-git.
The open source Vulkan driver 'radv' for AMD on Linux has patches for geometry shader support
Dave Airlie sent in a massive patch-set of 31 patches for 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver, to support geometry shaders.
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.
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.
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