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For those on NVIDIA, the 396.54.05 driver seems to have some noteworthy performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2018

It seems NVIDIA have been working on some improvements to their Linux driver, as the 396.54.05 beta driver seems to have improved performance in various games.

Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2018

Released yesterday, both Mesa 18.1.8 as a bug-fix release and Mesa 18.2.0 as the latest full release of the open source graphics drivers are now out.

NVIDIA are working towards better support for NVIDIA Optimus on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2018

Thanks to a little Twitter tip, we've learned today that NVIDIA are indeed working to provide better support for NVIDIA Optimus on Linux.

SC Controller, incredibly useful UI/Driver for the Steam Controller has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2018

If you ever have issues with games not picking up your Steam Controller correctly, you should probably take a look at the excellent SC Controller project.

NVIDIA pushed out two new Linux drivers recently with 396.45 and 390.77

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jul 2018

NVIDIA are pushing forward with improving their Linux driver in many areas, with two driver series seeing updated in the past week.

Mesa now supports OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile for radeonsi

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2018

Good news for those of you using an AMD GPU, as Mesa with radeonsi now has support for compatibility profiles up to OpenGL 4.4.

xpadneo is an 'advanced' Linux driver for the Xbox One S wireless gamepad

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2018

xpadneo seems like an interesting project for those of you who own the Xbox One S wireless gamepad, allowing you to connect it Bluetooth with other fun features.

The excellent SC Controller project adds Bluetooth support

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2018

SC Controller, the rather great driver and user interface for working with the Steam Controller (and now many others) outside of Steam recently added Bluetooth support.

Mesa 18.1 is out with the shader cache on for Intel

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2018

Open source drivers on Linux have advanced rather quickly and now we have another fresh release out with Mesa 18.1 which was released yesterday.

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NVIDIA 396.18 beta driver is out with a new Vulkan SPIR-V compiler to reduce shader compilation time

By Liam Dawe, 10 Apr 2018

The new NVIDIA 396.18 beta is officially out and it's one of the more interesting driver releases from NVIDIA.

NVIDIA dropping support for 32bit Linux this month, also dropping Fermi series support

By Liam Dawe, 9 Apr 2018

If you're an NVIDIA user still on 32bit, you might want to think about finally updating as this month NVIDIA will be moving to only providing critical security updates for 32bit systems.

Mesa 18.0 released, further advancing Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2018

Mesa 18.0 has been officially released today after a bit of a wait, further advancing Linux graphics drivers.

AMD have now officially open-sourced their 'AMDVLK' Linux Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2017

Typical really, the day after I do a review of 2017 and mention how AMD announced they would finally release it, but still didn't, they then go and do it today.