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Vulkan for the Raspberry Pi 4 with V3DV is now conformant and official

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2020

Great news for the Vulkan API and for fans of the Raspberry Pi 4, as the upcoming V3DV that will be part of the next Mesa release is now an official conforming driver.

Valve funds open source developer to work on Zink, the OpenGL on Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2020

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.

Vulkan Ray Tracing becomes official with Vulkan 1.2.162 (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2020

The day has arrived, along with the release of Vulkan 1.2.162 being tagged in the Vulkan-Docs repository on GitHub the Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now officially released.

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War Thunder gets a huge upgrade along with Vulkan by default on Linux (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

War Thunder, the huge free to play online battle game across land, sea and air just had a huge game engine upgrade with the latest release.

NVIDIA slip out a small stable Linux driver update with 455.45.01

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

It seems NVIDIA are no longer reserving the two extra digits in their Linux driver versioning for their special Betas, as a new stable driver is out today as 455.45.01.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 455.46.01 driver out now

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2020

NVIDIA have released another update to their quickly advancing Vulkan Beta Driver, with the 455.46.01 release out.

Steam Play Proton 5.13 gets a Release Candidate, Valve working on new Vulkan extension

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2020

Two pieces of Valve news to cover this Tuesday morning including new updates to Steam Play Proton and an upcoming Vulkan extension to help deal with other APIs and porting.

OpenGL on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' continues maturing with 'near-native performance'

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2020

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.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2020

Supporting newer and more advanced Windows games like Control and Death Stranding, the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release.

Perspective puzzle game Superliminal is out now on Steam, along with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2020

Superliminal's timed exclusive period on the Epic Games Store is now up, and it has released on Steam along with Linux support with a port from Ethan Lee.

A fresh NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 455.34.01 is out with GeForce RTX 3070 support

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

NVIDIA have now updated their super special Vulkan Beta Driver branch adding in support for the latest GPU release with the GeForce RTX 3070.

New NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 455.26.02 is out

By Liam Dawe, 21 Oct 2020

Need the latest bleeding-edge Linux drivers from NVIDIA? There's a new release out of the Vulkan Beta Driver.

The Vulkan driver for Raspberry Pi 4 becomes official for Linux, merged into Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2020

In case you've missed what's been going on, the progress on proper Vulkan support for the Raspberry Pi 4 has been going really well.

NVIDIA release another fresh Vulkan Beta Driver - 455.26.01

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2020

NVIDIA just quietly released another fresh update to their special developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver.

D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK release 1.7.2 is up

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2020

Developer Philip Rebohle announced today the release of DXVK 1.7.2 to further improve the D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan translation layer.

Great news for Transport Fever 2 fans as Vulkan support is coming

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2020

Transport Fever 2 is a much loved transport sim released with same-day Linux support in December 2019, and it's only going to keep getting better.

NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2020

NVIDIA have pushed out a fresh update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver series, here's the highlights and what's changed.

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing gets a major upgrade with new Unity game engine and Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing, a popular drone racer that's enjoyed by many users on Steam just recently had a massive free upgrade released.

Graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' to gain Vulkan support in the 2.3 release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

As another win for both open standards and modern graphics APIs, the classic and continually improving open source graphics rendering engine OGRE will get Vulkan support in the upcoming 2.3 release.