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It's now easier to get Mesa 25.1 on the latest Ubuntu 25.04
7 Jul 2025 at 11:29 am UTC Likes: 3

Another alternative (used in my case) is Ernst Persson ppas:

this labeled as Mesa Almost Stable aka mesa 25.1

https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesarc [External Link]

and this labeled as Mesa Unstable aka mesa 25.2-dev (used by myself)

https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco [External Link]

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Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK v2.7 released with performance improvements and Intel support upgrades
7 Jul 2025 at 11:19 am UTC Likes: 3

​In my case with mesa 25.2-dev still work

New Super Lucky Tale

https://i.imgur.com/z6i4Kht.png [External Link]

Destroy All Humans

https://i.imgur.com/yGMkaYX.png [External Link]

Also appear aound 2 weeks ago before dxvk 2.7 this:

Disable descriptor buffer on AMDVLK on RDNA2 and older

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/5045 [External Link]

doitsujin commented 2 weeks ago
Once we can stop caring about these GPUs we can nuke all of this along with the legacy path, but yeah for now this is going to be very annoying to maintain.
On bad news in future according before any amd gpu based on rdna 2 and before* go to legacy path

*this include steam deck igpu aka rdna 1

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Wine 10.10 brings more Media Foundation work, Mono and Unicode updates
14 Jun 2025 at 10:38 am UTC Likes: 4

​This wine version in my case damage system bar icon menu (click right) using appetizer, for now need remain appetizer taskbar for prevent this issue

https://i.imgur.com/EN02huj.png [External Link]

and come with mono 10.1

https://i.imgur.com/KkCGyof.png [External Link]

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Ubuntu 25.10 goes all-in with Wayland, dropping support for GNOME on Xorg
10 Jun 2025 at 5:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-goes-all-in-with-wayland-dropping-support-for-gnome-on-xorg/?comment_id=279701

In my case stay waiting for next cycle on xubuntu but for 28.04 wayland must be stay in better form (before and this year seems show more work)

On wine in my case need resolve various issues related with input

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Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK v2.6.2 released
10 Jun 2025 at 5:52 pm UTC Likes: 3

This dxvk version work ok in my case using mesa 25.2-dev for now

https://i.imgur.com/cvzsiJM.png [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/duMGWOl.png [External Link]

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XWVM is a modern Unity engine to play STAR WARS - X-Wing, first Alpha out now
3 Jun 2025 at 11:37 am UTC

In my case run with mesa 25.2-dev, renderer is vulkan

https://i.imgur.com/shQ7R8j.png [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/sWyXSKz.png [External Link]

and use x-wing collector series 98 fron gog

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Wine 10.9 brings EGL support for all graphics drivers and updated vkd3d
2 Jun 2025 at 10:28 am UTC Likes: 4

​This wine version in my case using d3d7 games still remain unplayable, very low performance, i have some hopes because in this version them add this:

EGL library support available to all graphics drivers.

but in practice:

https://i.imgur.com/NWc51wG.png [External Link]

In other things related with virtual desktop:

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58157 [External Link]

problem still remain, in my case stay working using wine 10.0 compiled (./configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64 --prefix=/opt/wine10**) by myself (new wow64)

**recent wine is compiled using this: ./configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64

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Fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 gets a Linux version in a big update
26 May 2025 at 3:58 pm UTC Likes: 5

In my case stay work ok with mesa 25.2-dev (with japanese voices option in starship if you have japanese starfox rom)

https://i.imgur.com/QV7k0tE.png [External Link]

also ship of harkinian work ok too

https://i.imgur.com/XB7ew7c.png [External Link]

both use opengl renderer on linux, in my case stay testing using zink

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CoreCtrl app has entered maintenance mode with no new features coming
26 May 2025 at 12:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

In my case use two apps:

https://github.com/Umio-Yasuno/amdgpu_top [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/WEEi8vU.png [External Link]

https://gitlab.com/mission-center-devs/mission-center [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/rjkpp4u.png [External Link]

both are good in my case (both register iGPU GTT Vram usage), however amdgpu-top have more values

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