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NVIDIA 530.30.02 mainline Beta driver rolls out, plus a new Vulkan Beta driver

By Liam Dawe, 28 Feb 2023

NVIDIA has released two new Beta drivers for Linux recently, so here's your usual rundown of what's new and changed.

Collabora announce 'Mercury' hand-tracking for open source XR runtime Monado

By Liam Dawe, 28 Feb 2023

After working on it for a while, Collabora developer Moses Turner has announced that their "Mercury" hand-tracking for Monado, their open source XR runtime, is now ready for use.

X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2023

Well, this is certainly fun to see. X-Plane 12 now makes use of the open source Zink driver, for doing OpenGL over Vulkan.

Mesa 23.0 out now improving open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2023

Mesa 23.0.0 has been released today upgrading open source graphics drivers for Linux. As usual you should wait for the first point release for stability.

Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan gets a 10x performance boost for DOOM 2016

By Liam Dawe, 15 Feb 2023

A really small change to the Zink driver, that gives OpenGL support on top of Vulkan, has given an ~10x speed boost for DOOM (2016).

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.07 supports extension to help VKD3D-Proton DXR

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2023

Seems like a future update of VKD3D-Proton that translates Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for Proton, for Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck, will make use of a newer extension available in the new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.07 release.

AMD GPU driver on Linux and Steam Deck to get big improvement on stuttering problems

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2023

The work to improve gaming performance on Steam Deck and Linux desktops for AMD GPUs is always ongoing, and it seems we're set for another nice improvement to how smooth games are.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 525.47.06 out now

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2023

NVIDIA has released another fresh update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, with version 525.47.06 rolling out now.

NVIDIA driver 525.85.05 is out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2023

NVIDIA have put up a smaller stable update for their Linux driver with a couple of noted fixes included. Here's the details.

The open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver 'NVK' begins to run games

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2023

Back in October last year I wrote about the new open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver named NVK, and now it appears to be able to actually run games. Not particularly well though.

NVIDIA driver v525.78.01 out fixing bugs and supports RTX 4070 Ti

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2023

NVIDIA has today released driver version 525.78.01 for Linux which includes support for the new RTX 4070 Ti, along with a few select bug fixes.

AMD Ray Tracing on Linux gets closer with Mesa enabling specific games

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2023

The work going into the open source Mesa graphics drivers continues on, with AMD Ray Tracing picking up speed and they're going to enable Quake II RTX and Doom Eternal support by default now.

Intel working on new Xe graphics driver for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2022

A nice little bonus before the holidays, Intel have made public work on their brand new Xe driver for the future of Intel graphics on Linux.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver adds RTX 4000 support, Vulkan Video and more

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2022

For those of you who use the special NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Drivers, version 525.47.04 was recently recently to go along with the release of Vulkan Video and hook up their latest GPUs.

Polychromatic for managing Razer devices on Linux v0.8 out now

By Liam Dawe, 8 Dec 2022

Polychromatic, powered by OpenRazer, is a front-end UI for users to easily manage their Razer devices and a new release is out now with version 0.8.0.

NVIDIA puts out Security Bulletin for various driver issues

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2022

NVIDIA today put out an official Security Bulletin, noting multiple flaws found in their Windows and Linux drivers.

Mesa 22.3 open source graphics drivers released

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2022

Mesa 22.3 is the latest and greatest the open source community has to offer for graphics drivers, and it's now available with lots of improvements.

OpenRGB v0.8 adds support of a ton more devices to control RGB lights on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 29 Nov 2022

OpenRGB is a stellar open source project that aims to allow you to deal with all the various RGB lights your hardware comes with, as most vendors don't have apps for Linux.