Patreon Logo Support us on Patreon to keep GamingOnLinux alive. This ensures all of our main content remains free for everyone. Just good, fresh content! Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal Logo PayPal. You can also buy games using our partner links for GOG and Humble Store.
RSS

Category: Misc

Pick categories (CTRL+click for multiple):  

Collabora continue enhancing Wine for Wayland, now with Vulkan and multi-monitor support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Currently in the experimental stages, Collabora continue hacking away at the code for Wine to enable full Wayland support and they've reached some big new milestones with Vulkan and multiple monitor support.

Proton 6.10 GE is out as a recommended upgrade for users of this community-built version

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Proton GE, the community-built version of Proton has a fresh major upgrade with Proton-6.10-GE-1 out now. This is also a recommended upgrade by the developer.

Valve need more testing of the latest Proton Experimental for input latency improvements

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Recently we highlighted another upgrade of Proton Experimental, the special testing area of Steam Play Proton that pulls in new and advanced features - well it needs a lot more testing.

What have you been tapping play on recently? Let us know

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It has again been a while since we ask you, our wonderful community about your gaming picks recently, so let's have another chat in the comments.

itch.io is hosting a huge Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The new charity bundle on indie store itch.io is up for the Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid. It's absolutely massive and there's some great stuff included.

Git yourself some Wine with the new 6.10 development release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Another Friday, another two weeks and so a fresh development release is out of the compatibility layer Wine.

Cross-platform open source lighting control OpenRGB has a huge release out with plugins

By Liam Squires-Hand,
OpenRGB is the excellent cross-platform open source application for controlling RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software.

Attempt 4 - Collabora sends in futex2 patches for the Linux Kernel to help Wine / Proton

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Here we go again, open source consulting firm Collabora have sent in the futex2 patches to the Linux Kernel for a fourth time now even more work has been done with the aim to help Wine and Steam Play Proton.

Rainbow Six Siege launching on Stadia, along with a big Ubisoft+ expansion

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It appears that at least Ubisoft are being serious about Stadia, with Ubisoft+ rolling out to more countries and they're bringing a bunch more games to Stadia too.

Pop!_OS 21.04 has a Beta out now with their new COSMIC desktop

By Liam Squires-Hand,
System76 have recently released the first Beta of their Linux distribution Pop!_OS 21.04, which comes with their brand new COSMIC desktop environment.

Atari VCS finally actually launches (in the US) on June 15

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After the crowdfunding campaign with lots of delays, more delays, a lawsuit and so on the Atari VCS will finally be released into stores (at least in the US) on June 15.

Proton Experimental prepares for NVIDIA DLSS, optional NVAPI and more game fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve and CodeWeavers have released another fresh Proton Experimental build for testing upcoming features of the Proton compatibility layer for Linux gaming with Steam Play.

It's been over "20 years in the making", Blender 2.93 LTS is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Blender team today are making quite the super-effective splash about the Blender 2.93 LTS release mentioning how it's been "20 years in the making".

OBS Studio 27.0 out with service integration, browser dock support and Wayland on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
OBS Studio 27.0 is now officially out marking one of the biggest releases they've ever done, especially if you're a Linux user and it's looking great.

itch.io hosting a huge Queer Games Bundle 2021 with hundreds included

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Want to support small teams and queer creators? Well here's a good chance for you with the itch.io Queer Games Bundle 2021 and there's quite a lot inside.

Judge upholds $4M damages in the patent case against Valve for the Steam Controller

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Back in February 2021 we wrote an article about how Ironburg Inventions (a subsidiary of Corsair Gaming) were suing Valve for the Steam Controller and Valve has now firmly lost the case.

There's experimental patches to bring Vulkan Ray Tracing to older AMD hardware on Mesa

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Want to see how Ray Tracing would run on Linux using the Mesa RADV driver on an older GPU? Well, thanks to developer Joshua Ashton that's starting to be possible.

AMD reveals Ryzen 5000 G-Series desktop APUs, FidelityFX Super Resolution and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
AMD came out of the gates swinging wildly at Computex 2021 with new chips, new tech and lots more new including: AMD 3D chiplet technology, AMD Ryzen 5000 G-Series desktop APUs, next-gen gaming laptops with their new AMD Radeon 6000M Series Mobile Graphics and their DLSS competitor in FidelityFX Super Resolution.

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced

By Liam Squires-Hand,
NVIDIA did a big splash at Computex 2021 with the expected announcement of two new top-end GPUs and quite a big surprise for Linux gaming with the official inclusion of NVIDIA DLSS for Proton.

Fanatical has some good bundles going right now if you need some new games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Fanatical aren't a store we cover often but they're actually great, and they currently have a few bundles going that you should check out if you need some new games this week.
Showing 4340 to 4360 of 5879 entries found.