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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.

HDR and Colour Management for AMD / Steam Deck and KDE Plasma coming along

By Liam Dawe, 24 May 2023

With all the work going on right now to get Linux to properly support HDR, another patch set has landed to hopefully get some of it hooked up.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.24 brings new extensions, 4GB+ pipeline caches support

By Liam Dawe, 17 May 2023

NVIDIA have a brand new release of their special developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver with v525.47.24 available now.

Mesa graphics drivers 23.1.0 out now with RADV GPL enabled

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2023

Another fresh release of Mesa is now available, the set of open source graphics drivers for Linux and Steam Deck with v23.1.0 out now.

OpenRazer v3.6 brings support for 11 more Razer devices

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

Another fantastic update to OpenRazer with version 3.6.0 bringing support for more Razer devices on Linux along with various improvements.

HDR and Colour Management patches for Steam Deck + AMD GPUs under review

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2023

Developer Melissa Wen recently sent in patches to improve HDR and Colour Management on Linux for Steam Deck and potentially other AMD GPUs.

Valve improving Mesa graphics drivers on Linux for a "secret" game (update: Jedi Survivor)

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2023

Here's something interesting for you. Valve developers seem to be improving the Mesa graphics drivers right now towards a secret game. Update: It was for Jedi Survivor.

Driver updates for AMD RADV to give nice boost for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 12 Apr 2023

The upcoming Mesa driver 23.1 release is sounding like it's going to be pretty great, with the Graphics Pipeline Library ("GPL") being enabled by default, plus we're looking at smaller shader cache sizes too.

NVIDIA release details of security issues and release new drivers

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2023

NVIDIA issued a new Security Bulletin, to advise you to update your GPU drivers due to multiple security issues discovered.

AMD RADV driver will soon stop eating RAM with some games

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2023

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has continued blogging about Linux graphics driver improvements, with a fix from developer Samuel Pitoiset landing to stop the AMD RADV (Vulkan) driver eating up RAM.