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NVIDIA have released the 435.17 beta driver with Vulkan and OpenGL support for PRIME render offload

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2019

NVIDIA have a little present available for Linux fans today, with the release of the 435.17 beta driver now being available.

NVIDIA have three new Linux driver releases out today

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2019

Today, NVIDIA have released a new stable driver update in addition to an updated Vulkan beta driver and a new OpenGL beta driver.

Zink, the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan is still progressing

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2019

Remember Zink? The project announced in October last year from developer Erik Faye-Lund at Collabora, which provides a Mesa Gallium driver for getting OpenGL on top of Vulkan, well it's still going.

OpenHMD version 0.3.0 is out, almost three years after the last version

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2019

The team behind OpenHMD have now officially announced version 0.3.0, which comes with a huge amount of changes and new hardware support.

NVIDIA releases the GeForce RTX 2060 and 2070 "SUPER" GPUs, along with a new Linux driver

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2019

Today, NVIDIA's brand new "SUPER" series has been officially released, along with a new Linux driver.

SC Controller, the UI and driver for the Steam Controller has new releases out

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2019

SC Controller is a truly wonderful bit of software, enabling the use and customization of the Steam Controller outside of Steam.

Mesa 19.1 is officially out plus NVIDIA 430.26 is available now

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2019

Two sets of driver releases for you recently, with Mesa 19.1 now officially out as quite a big upgrade and a minor NVIDIA driver change.

NVIDIA 430.14 driver released, DiRT 4 and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Steam Play) get improvements

By Liam Dawe, 14 May 2019

NVIDIA today pushed out the 430.14 stable driver, it comes with a few notable improvements but it's quite a small release overall.

NVIDIA are continuing to work on PRIME GPU offloading, with a new GLX Extension

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2019

Something I wrote about last year, was that NVIDIA were working towards better supporting NVIDIA Optimus on Linux. Seems like another step is being made towards that end.

NVIDIA have two new drivers out with 430.09 and the Vulkan beta driver 418.52.05

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2019

NVIDIA have just recently released two new drivers for Linux users, with the main series now being at 430.09 adding new GPU support and the Vulkan beta driver 418.52.05 giving ray-tracing to some older GPUs.

Mesa 19.0 is officially out, lots of improvements for Linux open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe, 13 Mar 2019

Today is the day, for those of you using open source graphics drivers (AMD/Intel and some older NVIDIA GPUs), Mesa 19.0 is now officially out.

NVIDIA have released the 418.43 driver, includes support for the just released GeForce GTX 1660

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2019

Two bits of NVIDIA news for you today, not only have they released a new stable driver, they've also put out their latest GPU with the GTX 1660.

NVIDIA has a new Vulkan beta driver, fixes for Hitman 2 with DXVK and Total War Warhammer II

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2019

NVIDIA have again pushed out a brand new Vulkan beta driver, with version 418.31.03 now available with game fixes and new extensions.

Intel begins talking up their open source efforts for their upcoming dedicated GPU

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2019

With Intel's brand new dedicated GPU due next year, they've begun talking up their efforts of getting Linux support in early.

NVIDIA have put out a new Vulkan beta driver with better pipeline creation performance

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2019

It seems to be a busy weekend! NVIDIA have put out a new version of their Vulkan beta driver and it's an interesting one.

NVIDIA have put out the 410.93 driver for Linux today

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2019

Arriving today, NVIDIA have their first bug-fix release of the year with the 410.93 driver as part of their longer supported series.

NVIDIA released the 415.22.01 Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2018

Yesterday, NVIDIA again updated their special beta Vulkan driver pushing it to version 415.22.01 with various improvements.

The excellent SC Controller gamepad tool has two fresh releases available

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2018

Do not adjust your monitor, you did read the correctly. SC Controller, the excellent tool that started off just for configuring the Steam Controller has two new releases out.