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Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK hits Vulkan 1.0 conformance gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/open…
Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK hits Vulkan 1.0 conformance
A big step for the in-development open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK, as Collabora have announced how it's hit Vulkan 1.0 conformance.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Squadron 42 finally 'feature complete', CIG talk up Vulkan support for Star Citizen gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/squa…
Squadron 42 finally 'feature complete', CIG talk up Vulkan support for Star Citizen
It's been a long road getting here but it seems we're inching closer to Cloud Imperium Games actually releasing Squadron 42, their cinematic single-player space adventure set in the Star Citizen universe.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Blender enables Vulkan as an experimental option gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/blen…
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Blender enables Vulkan as an experimental option
Some fun news for Blender fans, as their work to bring up Vulkan support in the project has hit a big new milestone with support now enabled but it's still experimental for now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Mesa getting Vulkan performance upgrades for submission merging gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/mesa…
Mesa getting Vulkan performance upgrades for submission merging
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz, who is one of many under contract by Valve, has released another blog post highlighting another fun optimization from their ongoing Mesa driver work.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra adds Vulkan support gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/nint…
Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra adds Vulkan support
Nintendo 3DS emulation is about to get a whole lot better, as Citra now has Vulkan support bringing better performance for players.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
VKDoom is a ZDoom-based source port with a focus on Vulkan gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/vkdo…
VKDoom is a ZDoom-based source port with a focus on Vulkan
Well this is pretty fun to see! The ZDoom / GZDoom family is expanding with VKDoom, a new sort-port that has a focus on expanded Vulkan support and modern rendering.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Redux mod adds Vulkan and DirectX 12 support gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/amne…
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Redux mod adds Vulkan and DirectX 12 support
Well this is quite fun to see. Amnesia: The Dark Descent has gained a Redux mod that rebuilds the graphics engine behind the game to provide Vulkan on Linux and DirectX 12 on Windows.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux
With some work currently pending to be pulled into Mesa, the open source AMD RADV driver could be about to get much faster with Ray Tracing which is exciting to see.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVK the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA merged into Mesa
Well, it happened! The open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs named NVK has been officially merged into Mesa.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver 'NVK' gears up for merging into Mesa
This is exciting as heck! Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand and various contributors have been powering through developing NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.34 out now
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Portal: Prelude gets an NVIDIA RTX remaster, plus NVIDIA announced RTX IO
NVIDIA has announced another game to use NVIDIA RTX Remix to add in full ray tracing, this time it's a mod for the original Portal with Portal: Prelude RTX.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Meta announced 'IGL', a high-performance cross-platform graphics library
Available under the MIT license, Meta (as in Facebook) have released IGL (Intermediate Graphics Library) for developers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.24 brings new extensions, 4GB+ pipeline caches support
NVIDIA have a brand new release of their special developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver with v525.47.24 available now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
DXVK 2.2 released supporting D3D11On12, plus improvements for game launchers
DXVK translates Direct3D 9 / 10 and 11 into Vulkan for Proton and Wine, used on Linux desktop and Steam Deck for gaming.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Direct3D 8 to Vulkan translator D8VK 'production-ready' 1.0 is out now
D8VK translates Direct3D 8 to Vulkan, just like DXVK for Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 and VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 used with Wine and Proton on Linux and Steam Deck. Fantastic to see the progress on this.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Vulkan gets a new extension to improve shaders with help from Nintendo
Well this is a fair bit unexpected. As happens quite often there was a specification update to the Vulkan API, and with it came a brand new extension to help with shaders — which Nintendo contributed towards.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
AMD RADV driver will soon stop eating RAM with some games
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.13 out now
Over the weekend NVIDIA released a fresh small update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta driver.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA 530.30.02 mainline Beta driver rolls out, plus a new Vulkan Beta driver
NVIDIA has released two new Beta drivers for Linux recently, so here's your usual rundown of what's new and changed.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins
Well, this is certainly fun to see. X-Plane 12 now makes use of the open source Zink driver, for doing OpenGL over Vulkan.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan gets a 10x performance boost for DOOM 2016
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).Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
D8VK is an in-progress implementation of Direct3D 8 for DXVK
While we have VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D to Vulkan and DXVK for Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan translation, what about Direct3D 8? D8VK is an upcoming in-progress project for that.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.07 supports extension to help VKD3D-Proton DXR gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/nvid…
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.07 supports extension to help VKD3D-Proton DXR
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 525.47.06 out now
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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 525.47.06 out now
NVIDIA has released another fresh update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, with version 525.47.06 rolling out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver adds RTX 4000 support, Vulkan Video and more
For those of you who use the special NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Drivers, version 525.47.04 was recently recently go along with the release of Vulkan Video and hook up their latest GPUs.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Vulkan Video 1.0 released with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update
The Khronos Group has announced that Vulkan Video is done and ready, the 1.0 release is out with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update and no longer considered provisional.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Jason Ekstrand is a 2022 Khronie Award recipient!
This year, our fellow colleague Jason Ekstrand is the recipient of a Khronie Award from the Khronos Group!Collabora | Open Source Consulting
Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translator VKD3D-Proton version 2.8 out now
Valve and their open source contractors sure are a busy bunch. VKD3D-Proton, which translates Direct3D 12 to Vulkan version 2.8 is out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)