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Quake II RTX adds support for the official cross-vendor Vulkan Ray Tracing

By Liam Dawe, Dec 15, 2020

Great news for AMD fans as Quake II RTX has been updated again, and it now features support for the newly released official cross-vendor Ray Tracing support with the Vulkan API.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer VKD3D-Proton version 2.1 is out

By Liam Dawe, Dec 14, 2020

With more titles out and planned to release that will use DirectX 12, the VKD3D-Proton translation layer is another essential bit of open source tech and a new release is out now.

Mesa 20.3.0 is out bringing tons of improvements for Linux open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe, Dec 3, 2020

Mesa 20.3.0 is the latest and greatest when it comes to Linux open source graphics, bringing with it new hardware support, performance improvements and more.

Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.7.3 released

By Liam Dawe, Dec 2, 2020

The open source DXVK project which translates D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan for use with Linux and the Wine compatibility layer has a new release up.

Vulkan for the Raspberry Pi 4 with V3DV is now conformant and official

By Liam Dawe, Nov 24, 2020

Great news for the Vulkan API and for fans of the Raspberry Pi 4, as the upcoming V3DV that will be part of the next Mesa release is now an official conforming driver.

Valve funds open source developer to work on Zink, the OpenGL on Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, Nov 24, 2020

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has announced that they're now being funded by Valve, so Blumenkrantz's work on the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' will continue.

Vulkan Ray Tracing becomes official with Vulkan 1.2.162 (updated)

By Liam Dawe, Nov 23, 2020

The day has arrived, along with the release of Vulkan 1.2.162 being tagged in the Vulkan-Docs repository on GitHub the Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now officially released.

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War Thunder gets a huge upgrade along with Vulkan by default on Linux (updated)

By Liam Dawe, Nov 18, 2020

War Thunder, the huge free to play online battle game across land, sea and air just had a huge game engine upgrade with the latest release.

NVIDIA slip out a small stable Linux driver update with 455.45.01

By Liam Dawe, Nov 17, 2020

It seems NVIDIA are no longer reserving the two extra digits in their Linux driver versioning for their special Betas, as a new stable driver is out today as 455.45.01.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 455.46.01 driver out now

By Liam Dawe, Nov 12, 2020

NVIDIA have released another update to their quickly advancing Vulkan Beta Driver, with the 455.46.01 release out.

Steam Play Proton 5.13 gets a Release Candidate, Valve working on new Vulkan extension

By Liam Dawe, Nov 10, 2020

Two pieces of Valve news to cover this Tuesday morning including new updates to Steam Play Proton and an upcoming Vulkan extension to help deal with other APIs and porting.

OpenGL on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' continues maturing with 'near-native performance'

By Liam Dawe, Nov 7, 2020

On the Collabora blog, developer Mike Blumenkrantz has given an exciting update to Zink, an open source Mesa Gallium driver for Linux that provides OpenGL on top of Vulkan.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release

By Liam Dawe, Nov 6, 2020

Supporting newer and more advanced Windows games like Control and Death Stranding, the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release.

Perspective puzzle game Superliminal is out now on Steam, along with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, Nov 5, 2020

Superliminal's timed exclusive period on the Epic Games Store is now up, and it has released on Steam along with Linux support with a port from Ethan Lee.