Category: Drivers

After NVIDIA updated their beta Vulkan drivers recently, it came with a pretty big issue they've now corrected.

For those interested, NVIDIA have now updated their special Vulkan beta drivers with 415.18.02 so they're a little less behind.

If you've read GamingOnLinux regularly, you will likely know how I am a big fan of SC Controller. It's a user-made driver and interface for using and mapping the Steam Controller. It's also now going under some major changes.

One I completely forgot to post about here, NVIDIA recently released the 415.13 beta driver for Linux.

The amazingly useful SC Controller project, a third-party open source driver and user interface for the Steam Controller has a new release out. Sadly, the last for a while.

Along with the release of the GeForce RTX 2080 GPU series NVIDIA have put out a new 410.57 driver to support it. Additionally, there's a new Vulkan beta driver which should help DXVK.

Writing on their personal blog, Jason Ekstrand from the Intel Mesa team has written up some information on what they've been doing to improve the Intel drivers on Linux.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.