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The Mesa GLSL shader cache is now enabled by default

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2017

I'm sure plenty of you will be happy with this, as Mesa now has the shader cache enabled by default in Mesa-git to allow for wider testing. It may be turned off for Mesa 17.1, if wider testing shows issues with it.

SuperTuxKart is trying to get on Steam, be sure to give it a vote

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2017

The open source racer SuperTuxKart is aiming to get on Steam before Greenlight is closed, so be sure to give it a vote.

Mesa now has a shader cache in Mesa-git for r600/radeonsi

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2017

Good news for AMD GPU owners on open source drivers, as Mesa-git now has a shader cache enabled for r600 and radeonsi.

Major update of the open source FPS 'Unvanquished' due soon

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2017

Unvanquished, the open source humans vs aliens FPS is due to get a massive update soon and it sounds pretty decent.

The Dark Mod 2.0.5 has been released

By Samsai, 16 Feb 2017

A new version of The Dark Mod has been released. The new version provides a new introductory map, updated and improved assets, bug fixes and some performance improvements.

Looks like Feral Interactive are doing more work on Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2017

The recent Mesa release of Mesa 17.0.0 included a patch from a Feral Interactive developer, but Feral aren't stopping there. Another developer from Feral has had two patches accepted into Mesa-git today.

Mesa 17.0.0 has officially released and it's well worth updating

By Liam Dawe, 13 Feb 2017

The Mesa developers have announced the release of Mesa 17.0.0 and it's a truly incredible release. You should probably update as soon as possible.

Getting the 'threaded GL dispatch' code into Mesa is causing some issues, Valve might use a white-list

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2017

You may remember recently I wrote about 'threaded GL dispatch' in Mesa possibly getting merged, after AMD's Marek suggested it and there was some backlash, well, it has continued.

Threaded OpenGL in Mesa will not help Feral's Linux ports and probably others too

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2017

Just a note to not get overly excited about threaded OpenGL in Mesa. While it's true it could help a bunch of games, there's also games it likely won't help or even make worse. Feral Interactive's ports already do it, and I'm sure others do too.

Mesa developer Marek is looking to finally sort out threaded GL dispatch

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

Marek, the Mesa developer from AMD posted a message to the public Mesa-dev mailing list asking to merge the threaded GL dispatch code and get it cleaned up to help with the high CPU overhead of Mesa.

Mesa has a patch from a Valve developer to help ARK Survival Evolved run on the open source drivers

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2017

Samuel Pitoiset from Valve has sent in yet another patch to Mesa, this one focuses on the ARK games: ARK Survival Evolved and Survival Of The Fittest to to run without overrides.

The itch store client has been updated again, slicker than ever

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2017

The developers at itch sure do put the effort in to make their store and client as good as possible and it shows with this latest update.

Mesa 13.0.4 stable released, time to update to get the latest fixes

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2017

The latest point release for the stable Mesa version is now available as 13.0.4. It brings in fixes for multiple drivers.

X-COM: UFO Defense is free on Humble Store, can be used in the OpenXcom open source engine

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2017

X-COM: UFO Defense is a true classic. I played it originally on Amiga for days on end and it has a fully functional open source engine from the community named 'OpenXcom'. The game is free right now on Humble Store, so go grab it.

Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate now available

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

In addition to Mesa 17 getting a new release candidate, we also today have a Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate which should be released on Friday.

Mesa 17-rc2 released, stable version still expected next month

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

Emil Velikov has announced the second release candidate for Mesa 17, the next stable version of the open source graphics drivers on Linux.

Mesa now has a patch to enable a shader cache for radeonsi (AMD)

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

This will probably be to the delight of many AMD graphics card owners who use the open source Mesa graphics drivers: A patch has been sent into the Mesa-dev mailing list for radeonsi to 'Add disk shader cache'.

Mesa 12.0.6 released with bug fixes for the older stable version, users encouraged to update to Mesa 13

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

Mesa 12.0.6 has released and it brings with it a bunch of bug fixes. While the latest stable version is Mesa 13.0.3, those sticking with the older Mesa 12 will still like their fixes.

Another patch to help The Witcher 2's issues with 'black transitions' has landed in Mesa-git

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

Marek Olšák sent in another patch to Mesa that is now in Mesa-git which should hopefully be a better fix for black transitions in The Witcher 2 on radeonsi (AMD).