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.
Category: Vulkan
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.
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.31 released
NVIDIA has released a fresh update to their Vulkan Beta Driver for developers with version 525.47.31 now available for testing.
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.
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.
The open source NVIDIA NVK driver is coming along well
A project I have a very keen eye on is NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver developed by the community (not NVIDIA), and it seems like progress on it is going rather well.
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.
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.
AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK adds Linux support
One for game developers here and anyone tinkering around with graphics APIs, as AMD has announced the next upgrade to their Render Pipeline Shaders SDK and now it has Linux support.
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.
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.
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.
Dota 2 removes OpenGL support, new hero Muerta now live, big update due in April
The latest major update to Dota 2 from Valve has landed, bringing with it the removal of OpenGL support and the new hero Muerta.
Godot Engine 4.0 out now plus console porting is coming
Today is the big day! Godot Engine 4.0 is officially out now, and there's also work happening for developers to port their games to consoles now too.
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.
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).
Godot Engine 4.0 gets a first Release Candidate
Game developers might want to begin to look closer at this one! The free and open source Godot Engine is about to have the biggest update ever with 4.0 that now has a first Release Candidate.
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.
Here's how to fix Ghost Recon Breakpoint on Steam Deck and Linux desktop
Want to play the new Steam release of Ghost Recon Breakpoint on Steam Deck? Or a Linux desktop? It doesn't run out of the box but here's how to fix it.
The next release of 0 A.D. will have experimental Vulkan API support
0 A.D. is an in-development free and open source RTS, one that's very promising and looks pretty good and the next Alpha version will also feature experimental Vulkan support.
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