Inspired by Thief, The Dark Mod 2.09 is out with more modern OpenGL rendering
Thief is an absolutely classic, and the series lives on thanks to The Dark Mod which is a standalone free and open source first-person stealth game.
Category: OpenGL
Collabora talk enhancing apitrace with gltrim to get replayable cut traces
Developers working across different areas of Linux are always looking for ways to squeeze a bit more performance, and it seems Collabora came up with a new way to performance test with upgrades to apitrace.
Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs to get OpenGL 3.1 with Mesa 21.0 - first RC up
With the first Mesa release of 2021 for open source Linux GPU drivers upcoming with Mesa 21.0 hitting the Release Candidate stage, Collabora have been busy bringing up OpenGL on ARM Mali GPUs.
Mesa 20.3.0 is out bringing tons of improvements for Linux open source graphics drivers
Mesa 20.3.0 is the latest and greatest when it comes to Linux open source graphics, bringing with it new hardware support, performance improvements and more.
Valve funds open source developer to work on Zink, the OpenGL on Vulkan driver
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has announced that they're now being funded by Valve, so Blumenkrantz's work on the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' will continue.
OpenGL on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' continues maturing with 'near-native performance'
On the Collabora blog, developer Mike Blumenkrantz has given an exciting update to Zink, an open source Mesa Gallium driver for Linux that provides OpenGL on top of Vulkan.
Godot 3.2.4 has a first beta with 2D batching for GLES3
Despite the small version bump, Godot 3.2.4 will be quite big release for game developers wanting to squeeze out some more performance.
XDC 2020 conference is today - Vulkan Ray Tracing and Vulkan for Raspberry Pi 4
Today the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC 2020) begins and there's a couple of interesting talks worth checking out, especially if you like to follow OpenGL and Vulkan.
Open source Panfrost driver for modern Mali GPUs expands OpenGL support
Collabora have written up a post about their recent work on the Panfrost driver, a free and open source driver for powering modern Mali GPUs found in many devices.
Open-source graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' has a major new release up
OGRE, a classic open source graphics rendering engine has a major new release available and the first big release in some time.
Collabora continue expanding the FOSS 'Panfrost' driver to cover Mali Bifrost GPUs
Some interesting open source GPU driver news to share today, as Collabora continue working on their open source Panfrost driver to cover newer generations of Mali ARM GPUs.
Godot Engine powers up GLES2 with batching coming in Godot 3.2.2
With a big release behind them this year with Godot 3.2, and while Vulkan support is being worked on for Godot 4.0, the team is also hard at work to improve the current version further.
Collabora partnered with Microsoft to get OpenGL and OpenCL on DirectX
A very interesting use of open source in action here from the incredibly smart team over at Collabora who teamed up with Microsoft engineers to get OpenGL and OpenCL via DirectX.
MangoHud, the excellent Linux overlay layer adds OpenGL support in addition to Vulkan
A huge update for the Linux overlay layer, MangoHud, as it can now work with OpenGL games in addition to Vulkan making it many times more useful and awesome.
NVIDIA have two new Linux drivers available, one stable and one Vulkan Beta
NVIDIA continue pushing their drivers forwards with two new Linux driver updates available. Let's take a quick look.
NVIDIA have released the stable 440.31 driver update for Linux, plus a new Vulkan beta driver
Following on from the 440.26 beta released last month, NVIDIA have today added a few more changes to it and pushed it out as a stable driver update with version 440.31.
A developer from Epic Games adds an offscreen video driver to SDL 2
Something that came across the desk this morning is a note about Epic Games contributing to the cross-platform development library SDL 2.
NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver 435.19.02, plus 435.21 stable driver released
NVIDIA have release two new drivers over the last day! An update to their Vulkan beta driver as well as a new stable driver update for everyone.
Accelerated OpenGL in a virtual machine is advancing with virglrenderer
Collabora put out a fresh technical blog post today to talk a little about virglrenderer, with the latest version enabling a big leap for accelerated OpenGL within a virtual machine.
NVIDIA have three new Linux driver releases out today
Today, NVIDIA have released a new stable driver update in addition to an updated Vulkan beta driver and a new OpenGL beta driver.
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