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.
Category: Drivers
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.
AMDGPU-PRO 16.50 actually released, with FreeSync and wider GPU support
As expected (from the leak), AMD has pushed out AMDGPU-PRO 16.50 for Linux which includes FreeSync support along with support for a wider set of cards.
Ubuntu now has a community-built PPA for stable versions of Mesa
Feral Interactive's call for a stable Mesa PPA has already made progress, as there's now a stable PPA available for Mesa.
AMD working on an updated driver that will support FreeSync on Linux and wider GPU support
AMD have announced that they are working on a big driver update. The Linux driver will support FreeSync and have wider support for their different GPUs.
The next driver release from NVIDIA will support using Vulkan without needing the X11 on Linux
It seems NVIDIA are preparing a new driver update that will enable the use of Vulkan without needing X11.
You might want to avoid the Nvidia 375.20 driver, Nvidia recommend downgrading
Just a word of warning, the Nvidia 375.20 driver seems to have quite a number of issues in certain games bringing performance down a lot.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' continues improving at a rapid pace
As always, I am massively impressed with the progress the Mesa developers have made. The open source Vulkan driver 'radv' has continued to evolve recently.
Nvidia 375.20 stable driver released, increases OpenGL shader cache size and more
The latest Nvidia driver 375.20 is now available. The interesting change is that it increases the OpenGL shader cache size, which may help with games like Deus Ex Mankind Divided on Linux.
Mesa 13.0.1 RC released, bug fixes and up to 30% performance increase in the Intel Vulkan driver
Not long after the big Mesa 13 release, we have a release candidate ready for a point release. It's an interesting one too, as it will include a performance improvement to the Intel Vulkan driver, as well as assorted bug fixes.
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