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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.

NVIDIA 530.41.03 driver out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Mar 2023

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.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.13 out now

By Liam Dawe, 13 Mar 2023

Over the weekend NVIDIA released a fresh small update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta driver.

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.