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NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta Driver out for Linux - helping DOOM Eternal on Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, 1 Apr 2020

NVIDIA continue to fix up and improve their Linux drivers, with a brand new Vulkan Beta Driver available today.

NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.2 is out, boosting Vulkan and Linux support further

By Liam Dawe, 24 Mar 2020

Over the last year or two more and more toolkits, debuggers and all sorts of handy applications for developers have expanded their Linux support and now NVIDIA are doing the same with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.2.

Ray Tracing comes to the Vulkan API officially with new extensions - new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta out

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2020

The Khronos Group has today announced that the cross-platform Vulkan graphics API now has official Ray Tracing support with their new provisional extensions.

NVIDIA talk up bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2020

With Ray Tracing becoming ever more popular, NVIDIA have written up a technical post on bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan to encourage more developers to do it.

Mesa drivers 20.0.0 released, NVIDIA also have a small Vulkan driver update out

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2020

Two bits of Linux driver news to share today, one quite big for AMD/Intel and the other on the smaller side for NVIDIA.

NVIDIA driver 440.59 released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2020

The first stable driver release of 2020, yesterday NVIDIA put out the 440.59 driver for Linux users.

NVIDIA end updates to the 340 series legacy driver for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2020

If you have an older NVIDIA GPU, chances are you've been using the 340 legacy series. Well, NVIDIA have said that it's no longer getting updates.

Vulkan API specification 1.2 released, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver up

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Today, The Khronos Group has released the next big update the Vulkan graphics API specification with Vulkan 1.2 now available.

NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta driver out, adds a fix for DXVK

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2020

NVIDIA continue advancing their special Vulkan Beta driver, the one that gets all the upcoming features that need a little extra time to brew.

Quake II RTX updated with a new fancy Photo Mode

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

Lightspeed Studios and NVIDIA continue advancing Quake II RTX, which seems to be turning into an FPS playground of new features built on the classic game.

If you have an old NVIDIA 8 or 9 series GPU, there's a new Linux driver update out for you

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

While naturally a lot of the focus for a GPU vendor is on their latest and greatest, NVIDIA do still support many of their older GPUs on Linux.

GNOME 3.36 and Fedora 32 to get better GPU switching with NVIDIA support

By Liam Dawe, 13 Dec 2019

Developer Bastien Nocera has written a blog post talking about improvements coming to GNOME 3.36 and Fedora Linux, to help those of you switching between GPUs.

NVIDIA have two new Linux drivers available, one stable and one Vulkan Beta

By Liam Dawe, 12 Dec 2019

NVIDIA continue pushing their drivers forwards with two new Linux driver updates available. Let's take a quick look.

NVIDIA presenting a talk at GTC 2020 about Linux drivers and possibly some open source news

By Liam Dawe, 6 Dec 2019

Next year could certainly be interesting in the world of Linux GPU drivers, specifically NVIDIA this time going by a talk they're going to have at the GPU Technology Conference.

Quake II RTX got an update to further improve the graphical fidelity

By Liam Dawe, 27 Nov 2019

It seems NVIDIA aren't quite done with Quake II RTX, seemingly now using it as a testing area to keep pushing more advanced features for ray tracing.

NVIDIA 435.27.06 Vulkan Beta driver is out

By Liam Dawe, 14 Nov 2019

If you like to live on the wild side, NVIDIA yesterday released a brand new update to their Vulkan Beta driver series with version 435.27.06.

NVIDIA have released the stable 440.31 driver update for Linux, plus a new Vulkan beta driver

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2019

Following on from the 440.26 beta released last month, NVIDIA have today added a few more changes to it and pushed it out as a stable driver update with version 440.31.