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NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

After being a little quiet for a while, NVIDIA released Beta driver 545.23.06 which includes a bunch of new features and a few bug fixes too.

Mesa 23.2.1 drivers out now

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2023

After a longer period of waiting than usual, the Mesa 23.2.1 driver release is out now as the first in the Mesa 23.2 series.

Mesa 23.2 aims for release this week, with a point release next week

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2023

It's been quite a while overdue but Mesa 23.2 is getting set to finally released, with a fourth Release Candidate now available for testing.

Mesa getting Vulkan performance upgrades for submission merging

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2023

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz, who is one of many under contract by Valve, has released another blog post highlighting another fun optimization from their ongoing Mesa driver work.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 535.43.09 and stable 535.104.05 drivers out now

By Liam Dawe, 4 Sep 2023

NVIDIA recently released two fresh driver upgrades for Linux, although one of them we have no idea what they actually changed. Here's what's up.

AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 14 Aug 2023

With some work currently pending to be pulled into Mesa, the open source AMD RADV driver could be about to get much faster with Ray Tracing which is exciting to see.

NVIDIA driver 535.98 now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Aug 2023

NVIDIA GPU owners may want to go and grab some updates as driver 535.98 is out now. Here's a look over what's changed.

NVK the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA merged into Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 7 Aug 2023

Well, it happened! The open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs named NVK has been officially merged into Mesa.

Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver 'NVK' gears up for merging into Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2023

This is exciting as heck! Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand and various contributors have been powering through developing NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.34 out now

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jul 2023

NVIDIA have released another update to their Vulkan Beta driver series with 525.47.34 out now. So here's what's new and fixed.

NVIDIA driver 535.86.05 out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2023

NVIDIA has released their latest Linux graphics driver update with version 535.86.05. So here's what's new and improved for you.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.31 released

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jul 2023

NVIDIA has released a fresh update to their Vulkan Beta Driver for developers with version 525.47.31 now available for testing.

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2023

Here's a fun bit of driver and hardware news as Imagination announced their GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 up from OpenGL 3.3 and it's thanks to the open source Zink driver.

Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2023

Valve clearly still have plenty of big ambitions for Linux gaming and Steam Deck, and as it turns out recently they pulled in yet another developer to work on open source graphics drivers.

The open source NVIDIA NVK driver is coming along well

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2023

A project I have a very keen eye on is NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver developed by the community (not NVIDIA), and it seems like progress on it is going rather well.

NVIDIA driver 535.54.03 stable rolls out for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2023

NVIDIA has today released their latest stable driver for Linux version 535.54.03, following on from their recent 535.43.02 Beta driver in late May.

AMD GPUs to get Ray Tracing turned on for Mesa 23.2

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2023

The RADV driver in Mesa for AMD GPUs on Linux and Steam Deck is set to get Ray Tracing turned on by default for the upcoming Mesa 23.2 release.

NVIDIA driver 535.43.02 Beta for Linux updates Wayland support, new Vulkan extensions

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2023

NVIDIA has released the 535.43.02 Beta driver for Linux today, bringing with it support for multiple newer Vulkan extensions and extends Wayland support further.