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Valve's new "ACO" Mesa shader compiler for AMD GPUs now has vertex shader support
For our third bit of Valve news today, they also recently announced that their Mesa shader compiler "ACO" had a bit of an upgrade recently as well.
Category: Open Source
xrdesktop, a new Valve-funded open source project to bring Linux desktops into VR
Valve seem to be pushing Linux support even harder now, with the announcement of the open source xrdesktop project from Collabora.
Zink, the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan is still progressing
Remember Zink? The project announced in October last year from developer Erik Faye-Lund at Collabora, which provides a Mesa Gallium driver for getting OpenGL on top of Vulkan, well it's still going.
Ubisoft and Epic Games are now supporting Blender development
Two surprising bits of news recently about Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite as they've managed to secure some extra funding from two big names.
FOSS racing game "Yorg" has a big new update ready for testing
Yorg, an in-development FOSS racing game is nearing the release of update 0.11, with a Release Candidate now available for testing.
GameMode, the Linux gaming performance tool has a fresh release out
What a lovely weekend for some open source releases. Hot on the heels of a new DXVK release, the performance optimization tool GameMode spearheaded by Feral Interactive has a new release out.
DXVK, the awesome D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan translation layer has a new release out
Developer Philip Rebohle has given the gift of code this weekend, with a new release of DXVK now officially available.
CoreCtrl, a new FOSS Linux tool to help you control your PC with application profiles
Quite an interesting one this, CoreCtrl from developer Juan Palacios aims to be a "game changer" in letting you setup your hardware to do things automatically when a program is launched and more.
RetroArch, the front-end app for emulators and more is heading to Steam
RetroArch, a popular front-end application for running emulators, game engines and much more is now officially coming to Steam.
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 has the May report out, amount of playable titles continues increasing
More fantastic work from the RPCS3 emulator team, with the report for May now available that highlights some more recent work done to improve the project.
Cortex Command from Data Realms goes open source
Cortex Command, a side-scrolling 2D action game originally released back in 2012 has now officially gone open source.
OpenHMD version 0.3.0 is out, almost three years after the last version
The team behind OpenHMD have now officially announced version 0.3.0, which comes with a huge amount of changes and new hardware support.
FOSS game engine "OpenRCT2" for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a fresh release out
Ready to build some fantastic rides again? FOSS game engine OpenRCT2 has a brand new release available for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Linux.
Superstarfighter, a free and open source local multiplayer party game
I recently got shown Superstarfighter, a 1-4 player local multiplayer (with AI too) fast-paced action game and it's actually pretty fun.
Valve are asking for help testing "ACO", a new Mesa shader compiler for AMD graphics
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned on Twitter, about a new Mesa shader compiler for AMD graphics named "ACO" and they're calling for testers.
The FOSS game engine "Godot Engine" is progressing on Vulkan support
Due for the Godot Engine 4.0 release, Vulkan support sounds like it's coming along nicely for this FOSS game engine as detailed in the latest progress report.
Classic open source RTS "Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries" has a brand new release out
Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries, a proper classic RTS that's open source continues living on with a fresh release now available to download.
DOSBox is still alive, with a new bug fix release available
DOS lives on! Not just in our hearts but thanks to DOSBox you can continue playing some serious classics and a new update is available with some fixes.
OpenVIII, an in-development open source game engine for Final Fantasy VIII
Any fans of Final Fantasy VIII reading? You're going to want to keep an eye on the in-development game engine OpenVIII.
Non-Euclidean roguelike HyperRogue just had a huge update and you can now play in first-person
HyperRogue absolutely melts my brain and yet I still keep coming back to it! It just had a huge update too, allowing you to play it in some interesting new ways.
- SteamOS Manager for BIOS updates, TDP and GPU clock controls now open source
- SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S
- After their publisher was banned from Steam, Bioprototype returns and it's free
- CoreCtrl app has entered maintenance mode with no new features coming
- The Elder Scrolls: Arena remake gets Jolt Physics and big new features
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