Category: NVIDIA

NVIDIA sent out a security bulletin today to reveal a fresh security flaw found in their Linux GPU drivers. So it’s time to get updating again to be safe.

Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand has announced a nice big milestone for the open source Mesa driver NVK, the NVIDIA Vulkan driver, as it has expanded Vulkan 1.4 conformance to now include Maxwell+ (Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs).

Nearly a month since the last stable update, NVIDIA have today released the 575.51.02 Beta driver that brings with it support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion on Linux along with various bug fixes. NVIDIA also formally announced the GeForce RTX 5060 series.

In a nice win for open source, NVIDIA have now provided the PhysX and Flow GPU source code to expand what developers can do with it.

Lightspeed Studios / NVIDIA have recently updated Quake II RTX, their ray-traced reimagining of id software’s old school classic.

Following on from the big stable release back in late February that gave us VRR for multiple displays and various bug fixes, NVIDIA have released driver version 570.133.07.

Half-Life 2 RTX now has a demo available on Steam for those of you who want to check out what Orbifold Studios have done to the Valve classic with ray tracing.

NVIDIA have released NVIDIA RTX Remix, their modding platform that allows developers to enhance games with full ray tracing. Additionally, Half-Life 2 RTX is getting a demo on March 18th.

Time for a bit of modernisation. With the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release, Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand announced a big change for NVIDIA GPU users. If you're not using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, that is.

If you want to fully control your GPU on Linux you may want to check out the latest update to Linux GPU Configuration Tool (LACT), which brings in various new features.

Following on from the 570.86.16 Beta that was released on January 30th, NVIDIA have today put up a new stable driver release with 570.124.04.

While Final Fantasy VII Rebirth can work on Linux with AMD GPUs (like Steam Deck), the situation with NVIDIA GPUs has been messy. Open source to the rescue though, again.

NVIDIA today released the 570.86.16 Beta driver for Linux which includes various new features, and a few good bug fixes too.

Sad news for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux who want to play FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH, which just released on Steam yesterday as it appears broken. Works on Linux for those with an AMD GPU like the Steam Deck though.

Today, January 16th 2025, NVIDIA have revealed multiple security flaws in their GPU drivers, so it's time to get updating again.

During CES, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais spoke to Frandroid about SteamOS, Steam Deck and more and there's some interesting bits in there about the future.

If you're wanting something similar to SteamOS right now that has much wider hardware support for your gaming handhelds like the Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally, GPD, Ayaneo or even your laptop / desktop then Bazzite is likely one of the best choices.

NVIDIA had some pretty big announcements at CES 2025 for gamers and game developers, like the announcement of the new 'Blackwell' GeForce RTX 50 Series, DLSS 4 and bringing AI to Shaders.

After NVIDIA previously released a Beta script to setup GeForce NOW on Steam Deck, they're about to make it a whole lot better with a proper native app for full Steam Deck support.

NVIDIA have today released driver version 565.77 as their latest stable New Feature Branch build available for Linux, pulling in all the changes from the 565.57.01 Beta plus a whole bunch more improvements.