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Intel's Mesa OpenGL driver has now finished up OpenGL 4.2 support

By Liam Dawe, 17 May 2016

Not long after gaining OpenGL 4.0 support, Intel's Mesa driver is now able to support OpenGL 4.2 and it's not far off 4.3.

The open source Mesa driver for Intel graphics finally reaches OpenGL 4

By Liam Dawe, 16 May 2016

Intel's Mesa has been lagging behind for quite some time, but today it looks like the wait is over. The Mesa Intel driver finally has OpenGL 4 support.

Nvidia 364.19 stable driver released, featuring Vulkan, Wayland & Mir support

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2016

Not exactly too different from previous Nvidia 364.x drivers, but this now makes the Nvidia 364.19 driver throw off the beta label and is stable enough in their eyes.

There's an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver

By Liam Dawe, 11 Apr 2016

If you didn't know already, there's actually an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver which could make it far more useful outside of Steam.

Nvidia releases 364.16 Vulkan driver, improved Optimus support, improved multi-threaded scaling

By Liam Dawe, 9 Apr 2016

Nvidia are really pushing hard on their Vulkan driver, and it's great to see them push out updates so quickly. We now have the 364.16 Vulkan driver ready for download.

Nvidia 364.12 released for Linux with official Vulkan, Mir & Wayland support

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2016

Well Nvidia dropped a bit of a big one today didn't they! Nvidia driver version 364.12 is now out and brings in official Vulkan support, Mir support and Wayland support.