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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4090: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Performance   Operating Systems   2023-04-19
Intel Arc Graphics Show Good Potential For Linux Workstation OpenGL Performance   Graphics Cards   2023-03-24
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux Gaming Performance   Processors   2023-03-02
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 / RTX 4090 Linux Performance   Graphics Cards   2023-02-16
X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce + AMD Radeon In Early 2023   Display Drivers   2023-01-30
AMD Radeon With Linux 6.1 + Mesa 23.0-dev vs. NVIDIA R525 Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2022-12-02
HITMAN 3 Runs Well On Linux With Steam Play - Open-Source Radeon Performance Especially Good   Linux Gaming   2022-01-24
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G / Ryzen 7 5700G Linux Gaming Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2021-09-07
Mesa 21.0-devel RADV vs. AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-01-13
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Linux Gaming Performance   Graphics Cards   2020-10-12
The Current NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance Ahead Of Ampere   Display Drivers   2020-08-27
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance On Mesa 20.1 Looking Good With RADV+ACO   Display Drivers   2020-05-04
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Linux Performance   Graphics Cards   2019-12-12
NVIDIA RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 SUPER Linux Gaming Performance - 26 GPUs Benchmarked   Graphics Cards   2019-09-26
Intel Core i9 9900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2019-08-29
Radeon RX 560/570/580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060/1650/1660 Linux Gaming Performance   Graphics Cards   2019-05-06
NVIDIA/AMD Linux Gaming Performance For Hitman 2 On Steam Play   Linux Gaming   2019-05-02
Strange Brigade Is Running Well On Linux Via Steam Play - Benchmarks With 22 NVIDIA/AMD Graphics Cards   Linux Gaming   2019-04-29
DiRT Rally 2.0 Linux NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon 18-Way Steam Play Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2019-03-04
RadeonSI Gallium3D Made Some More OpenGL Performance Gains This Year   Display Drivers   2018-12-21
16-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Valve's Steam Play For Windows Games On Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-11-06

Steam Play Linux & Open-Source News

NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance   Nouveau   2024-04-23
FEX-Emu 2404 Optimization Can Take Memcpy From 2-3 GB/s To 88 GB/s   Linux Gaming   2024-04-15
Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives   Linux Gaming   2024-04-14
Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software   Arch Linux   2024-04-07
Intel Continued Upstreaming A Lot Of Great Linux/Open-Source Code This Quarter   Intel   2024-03-31
Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel   Linux Gaming   2024-03-29
DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround   Intel   2024-03-23
DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs   Linux Gaming   2024-03-20
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex   Valve   2024-03-15
NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver   Nouveau   2024-03-09
VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V   WINE   2024-03-05
FEX 2403 Fixes Steam Support, Introduces More CPU Optimizations   Linux Gaming   2024-03-05
Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty   WINE   2024-03-03
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve   Vulkan   2024-03-02
Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found   Valve   2024-02-29
Proton 9.0 Beta Makes More Games Playable Under Steam Play, Updates VKD3D-Proton & DXVK   Linux Gaming   2024-02-23
NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable   NVIDIA   2024-02-23
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.2 Brings Several New Vulkan Extensions   Radeon   2024-02-23
Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver Updated For The Linux Kernel   WINE   2024-02-19
Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play   Vulkan   2024-02-16
HITMAN 3 Will Now Launch On Intel GPUs Under Linux After Hiding The GPU Vendor   Intel   2024-02-13
FEX 2402 Brings More Performance Improvements For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64   Linux Gaming   2024-02-13
Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android   Mesa   2024-02-04
Steam On Linux Falls Short Of 2% For January, AMD CPU Adoption On Linux Hits 70.5%   Valve   2024-02-01
Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised   WINE   2024-02-01
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable   Valve   2024-01-22
"The Finals" Can Run With Intel Graphics On Linux When Hiding The Fact It's An Intel GPU   Linux Gaming   2024-01-15
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.3 Released With Counter-Strike 2 Optimization, VKD3D Change   Radeon   2024-01-02
AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023   AMD   2024-01-01
Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023   Phoronix   2023-12-27
Intel Fixes Up Baldur's Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics   Intel   2023-12-22
Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning & Parking   Linux Gaming   2023-12-06
Mainline Linux Support Is Being Worked On For A $100~200 ARM Handheld Gaming Console   Hardware   2023-12-04
VKD3D-Proton 2.11 Released With DXR Now Enabled By Default & DirectX Ultimate   Vulkan   2023-11-24
Intel Lands Vulkan Sparse Binding Support For ANV+i915 With Mesa 24.0   Intel   2023-11-17
Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series   Radeon   2023-11-09
Intel Arc Graphics Conceals Itself To Get Diablo IV Running On Linux   Intel   2023-11-01
Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October   Phoronix   2023-11-01
RADV Hooks Up Image Compression Control To Workaround Game Bugs   Radeon   2023-10-27
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1: Polaris & Vega Support Dropped, Counter-Strike 2 Tuning   Radeon   2023-10-25
Lutris 0.5.14 Released For Better Managing Your Games On Linux   Linux Gaming   2023-10-20
FEX-Emu 2310 Released With Performance Optimizations, WOW64 Wine Frontend   Linux Gaming   2023-10-06
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-4 As A Big Improvement For Windows Gaming On Linux   Valve   2023-10-05
Intel Comes Up With A Way For Vulkan Sparse Support On Their Existing Linux Driver   Intel   2023-10-03
Wine 8.17 Released With VKD3D 1.9 Upgrade, Initial Window Management For Wayland Driver   WINE   2023-09-29
AMD FSR 3 Now Available - Open-Source Code To Come Soon   Radeon   2023-09-29
AMDVLK 2023.Q3.3 Released With Radeon RX 7700 / 7800 Series Support   Radeon   2023-09-29
Mesa 23.3 Lands Initial Intel Vulkan Driver Sparse Support - Needed For Many Newer Games   Intel   2023-09-28
CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 23.5 With A Focus On Boosting macOS Gaming   WINE   2023-09-27
VKD3D 1.9 Released With HLSL Compiler Improvements, Ability To Inspect DXBC Blobs   WINE   2023-09-22
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community   Valve   2023-09-22
VKD3D-Proton 2.10 Released With More Performance Improvements, Game/Driver Workarounds   Valve   2023-09-11
DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 Implements HDR Support Via DXVK   Valve   2023-09-09
Hangover 8.15 Released With Box64 Integration As PE Library   WINE   2023-09-05
DXVK 2.3 Brings Presentation Improvements, More Game Fixes, "hideNvidiaGpu" Option   Valve   2023-09-04
Steam Survey Results For August Show A Linux Dip After A Very Exciting July   Valve   2023-09-01
Ampere Computing Publishes Guide For Steam Play Games On Their AArch64 Server CPUs   Arm   2023-08-27
RADV Implements NVIDIA DGC Compute Extension   Mesa   2023-08-23
Wine-Staging 8.14 Released - Less Than 500 Patches Atop Upstream   WINE   2023-08-21
CrossOver 23 Enables EA App On Linux, Many Fixes   Linux Gaming   2023-08-16
Intel XeSS 1.2 Released - Xe Super Sampling Still Driven By Some Windows Binary Blobs   Intel   2023-08-15
Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics   Intel   2023-08-08
FEX-Emu 2308 Continues Striving To Be "The Greatest x86/x86-64 Emulator On Linux"   Free Software   2023-08-06
Fake Sparse Support Merged For Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver To Make More Games Playable   Intel   2023-08-03
Intel Linux Driver Lands Workaround To Sharply Speedup Cyberpunk 2077 Shader Compilation   Intel   2023-07-29
More FUTEX2 Additions Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2023-07-24
WineConf Likely Over But There May Be A Proton / Gaming Developer Conference   WINE   2023-07-22
Wine 8.13 Released With Three Dozen Bugs Fixed   WINE   2023-07-21
Proton 8.0-3 Released With More Windows Games Running On Linux, Fixes   Valve   2023-07-21
Fake Sparse Support Being Worked On For Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver   Intel   2023-07-18
Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness   Mesa   2023-07-05
What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023   Phoronix   2023-06-30
Intel Arc Graphics Driver Change Leads To A Big Speed-Up Under Linux   Intel   2023-06-24
Wine 8.11 Brings Various Improvements For Windows Apps On Linux   WINE   2023-06-24
Valve Still Making RADV Driver Improvements To AMD GCN 1.0 Era Hardware   Radeon   2023-06-21
Steam On Linux Use Ticked Higher In May, 25% Of Linux Gamers Are Using The Steam Deck   Valve   2023-06-01
Fedora 39 To Raise Its vm.max_map_count To Satisfy Some Steam Play Games   Fedora   2023-05-31
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Temporarily No Longer Identifies As "Intel" For CP2077   Intel   2023-05-30
AMDVLK 2023.Q2.2 Brings New Extension For VKD3D-Proton, Performance Tuning   Radeon   2023-05-22
VKD3D-Proton 2.9 Released With Performance Improvements   Linux Gaming   2023-05-19
CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust   WINE   2023-05-19
Fedora To Further Evaluate vm.max_map_count Tuning For Better Linux Gaming Experience   Fedora   2023-05-19
DXVK 2.2 Released With D3D11On12 Support, Many Game Fixes   Valve   2023-05-12
D8VK v1.0 Released For Running Direct3D 8 Games Atop Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2023-05-10
Intel's Experimental Xe Driver For Linux Lacking HuC Media Support For DG2/Alchenist   Intel   2023-05-09
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Increases Instruction Heap - Fix For Overwatch   Intel   2023-05-05
Proton 8.0-2 Brings More Fixes For Windows Games On Steam Play   Valve   2023-05-02
Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made For An Interesting Month   Phoronix   2023-04-30
Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands Another Small Performance Optimization   Intel   2023-04-24
Fedora 39 Looks To Boost vm.max_map_count To Help Windows Games With Steam Play   Fedora   2023-04-24
Valve Lands Another Radeon Vulkan Performance Optimization For An "Upcoming Game"   Radeon   2023-04-21
RADV Optimized By Valve For An Upcoming Game - Nearly Matching The Windows Performance   Valve   2023-04-20
Wine 8.0.1 Released With Three Dozen Bugs Fixed   WINE   2023-04-20
Lutris 0.5.13 Beta 2 Released For Managing Your Games On Linux   Linux Gaming   2023-04-20
AMDVLK 2023.Q2.1 Brings Mesh Shaders, Several New Vulkan Extensions   Radeon   2023-04-19
Proton 8.0-1 Published With More Games Now Running On Steam Play   Valve   2023-04-17
Renewed Work For ACO Compiler Support With The RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2023-04-17
Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights   Phoronix   2023-04-02
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1   Phoronix   2023-03-31
Wine's VKD3D 1.7 Implements More Direct3D 12 Functionality Atop Vulkan   WINE   2023-03-24
Valve Officially Announces Counter-Strike 2   Valve   2023-03-22
RADV Lands Another Feature For Helping VKD3D-Proton Tier 3 Functionality   Mesa   2023-03-21
Hangover 0.8.3 Released For Enjoying Windows x86/x86_64 Apps/Games On Linux ARM64   WINE   2023-03-09
FEX 2303 Released For Improving Linux x86_64 Gaming On ARM64   Linux Gaming   2023-03-06
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-02-28
RADV Working Toward D3D12 FL 12.2 Support With VKD3D-Proton   Mesa   2023-02-27
Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Driver Can Now Handle Cyberpunk 2077 Ray-Tracing   Mesa   2023-02-24
CrossOver 22.1 Released With Updated VKD3D 1.5, More Gaming Improvements   WINE   2023-02-14
Proton 7.0-6 Released With More Windows Games Playable On Linux   Valve   2023-02-03
Wine 8.1 Released - Now Exposed As "Windows 10" For New Prefixes   WINE   2023-02-02
Intel Highlights Their Progress On Arc Graphics Drivers Since Launch   Intel   2023-02-01
Linux 6.3 Features, Intel Sapphire Rapids & More Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2023-01-31
Valve Fixes RAGE 2 Breaking For Recent Mesa RADV Driver   Mesa   2023-01-29
DXVK 2.1 Released With HDR Support, Many Game Improvements   Vulkan   2023-01-24
Mesa RADV Driver Now Working With The Game "Control" Out-Of-The-Box   Mesa   2023-01-18
Wine 8.0-rc4 Released With Another 25 Bugs Fixed   WINE   2023-01-13
FEX-Emu 2301 Working More On AVX Emulation Atop Arm, New AArch64 Code Emitter   Linux Gaming   2023-01-06
Thanks To Valve, HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming   Valve   2023-01-03
Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX, EPYC Genoa & Linux 6.2 Developments Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-01-01
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Now Advertises Support For Quake II RTX & DOOM Eternal   Radeon   2022-12-31
AMD Continued Its Great Linux Embrace In 2022 With Better Launch-Day Support + Optimizations   AMD   2022-12-31
VKD3D-Proton 2.8 Brings Many Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan   Valve   2022-12-15
AMDVLK 2022.Q4.4 Released With RX 7900 Series Support   Radeon   2022-12-15
RADV Vulkan Driver Making Progress On Portal RTX Support   Mesa   2022-12-14
Linux Adding New Control Since Its Splitlock Detector Is Wrecking Some Steam Play Games   Linux Kernel   2022-12-13
AMDVLK 2022.Q4.3 Vulkan Driver Released With More Performance Tuning   Radeon   2022-12-09
FEX-Emu 2212 Improves x86_64 Game Support On Arm, Now Supports Older Radeon GPUs   Linux Gaming   2022-12-06
AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November   Phoronix   2022-12-01
Proton 7.0-5 Gets More Games Running On Linux & The Steam Deck   Valve   2022-11-23
DXVK 2.0 Released With Many Improvements For Direct3D Over Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2022-11-10
AMDVLK 2022.Q4.2 Brings More Performance Tuning   Radeon   2022-11-10
FEX 2211 Emulator Gets God of War & Other Modern AAA Games Running On Linux AArch64   Linux Gaming   2022-11-03
VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes   Vulkan   2022-10-27
AMDVLK 2022.Q4.1 Brings More Vulkan Performance Tuning   Radeon   2022-10-21
Intel's Linux Vulkan Driver Lands Workaround For HITMAN 3   Intel   2022-10-19
Proton 7.0-5 RC Gets More Windows Games Running On Linux   Valve   2022-10-17
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands APU Fix For Red Dead Redemption 2   Radeon   2022-10-01
VKD3D 1.5 Lands In Wine For Updated Direct3D 12 Over Vulkan   Vulkan   2022-09-27
NUMA Interface For FUTEX2 Still Being Tackled For Linux   Linux Kernel   2022-09-16
Vulkan 1.3.228 Promotes One Of Valve's Extensions Used For Efficient D3D12 Emulation   Vulkan   2022-09-15
AMDVLK 2022.Q3.4 Driver Finally Adds Ray-Tracing Support For RDNA2   Radeon   2022-09-13
Radeon Vulkan Driver RADV Lands 3D Sparse Image Support   Mesa   2022-09-07
Steam On Linux Marketshare Crawls Up To 1.27% For August 2022   Valve   2022-09-01
Open-Source Arc Graphics, Apple M2, Mesa GPU Drivers & Linux 6.0 Excited Readers In August   Phoronix   2022-08-31
Wine-Based CrossOver 22 Released For Enjoying Windows Apps & Games On Linux   WINE   2022-08-23
AMDVLK 2022.Q3.3 Brings Some Performance Tuning For Linux Gamers   Radeon   2022-08-18
Proton 7.0-4 Released For Steam Play With Many Game Fixes, More Playable Titles   Valve   2022-08-16
Wine-Staging 7.15 Released - Currently At 536 Patches Atop Upstream Wine   WINE   2022-08-14
Glibc 2.36 Dropping DT_HASH Has Been Breaking Easy Anti Cheat Games With Steam Play   Linux Gaming   2022-08-13
Wine 7.15 Adds RSA Encryption, Direct2D Command Lists   WINE   2022-08-13