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The open source NVIDIA NVK driver is coming along well

By Liam Dawe,
8
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.
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NVIDIA driver 535.54.03 stable rolls out for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
12
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.
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AMD GPUs to get Ray Tracing turned on for Mesa 23.2

By Liam Dawe,
20
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.
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NVIDIA driver 535.43.02 Beta for Linux updates Wayland support, new Vulkan extensions

By Liam Dawe,
9
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.
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HDR and Colour Management for AMD / Steam Deck and KDE Plasma coming along

By Liam Dawe,
5
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.
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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.24 brings new extensions, 4GB+ pipeline caches support

By Liam Dawe,
1
NVIDIA have a brand new release of their special developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver with v525.47.24 available now.
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Mesa graphics drivers 23.1.0 out now with RADV GPL enabled

By Liam Dawe,
19
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.
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OpenRazer v3.6 brings support for 11 more Razer devices

By Liam Dawe,
7
Another fantastic update to OpenRazer with version 3.6.0 bringing support for more Razer devices on Linux along with various improvements.
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HDR and Colour Management patches for Steam Deck + AMD GPUs under review

By Liam Dawe,
11
Developer Melissa Wen recently sent in patches to improve HDR and Colour Management on Linux for Steam Deck and potentially other AMD GPUs.
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Valve improving Mesa graphics drivers on Linux for a "secret" game (update: Jedi Survivor)

By Liam Dawe,
20
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.
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Driver updates for AMD RADV to give nice boost for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
16
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.
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NVIDIA release details of security issues and release new drivers

By Liam Dawe,
0
NVIDIA issued a new Security Bulletin, to advise you to update your GPU drivers due to multiple security issues discovered.
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AMD RADV driver will soon stop eating RAM with some games

By Liam Dawe,
4
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.
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NVIDIA 530.41.03 driver out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
3
NVIDIA has today released their latest stable driver 530.41.03 update for Linux users, following on from the 530.30.02 Beta last month.
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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.13 out now

By Liam Dawe,
0
Over the weekend NVIDIA released a fresh small update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta driver.
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NVIDIA 530.30.02 mainline Beta driver rolls out, plus a new Vulkan Beta driver

By Liam Dawe,
3
NVIDIA has released two new Beta drivers for Linux recently, so here's your usual rundown of what's new and changed.
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Collabora announce 'Mercury' hand-tracking for open source XR runtime Monado

By Liam Dawe,
3
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.
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X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins

By Liam Dawe,
6
Well, this is certainly fun to see. X-Plane 12 now makes use of the open source Zink driver, for doing OpenGL over Vulkan.
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Mesa 23.0 out now improving open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
21
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.
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Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan gets a 10x performance boost for DOOM 2016

By Liam Dawe,
11
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).
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