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NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver   Mesa   2024-03-22
Intel Fixes Up Baldur's Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics   Intel   2023-12-22
Mesa 23.3.1 Rolls Out Fixes From D3D12 To RADV   Mesa   2023-12-15
Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics   Intel   2023-08-08
Fake Sparse Support Merged For Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver To Make More Games Playable   Intel   2023-08-03
Fake Sparse Support Being Worked On For Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver   Intel   2023-07-18
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Temporarily No Longer Identifies As "Intel" For CP2077   Intel   2023-05-30
Mesa Vulkan KHR_present_wait Support Extended To Wayland   Mesa   2023-05-03
Mesa 22.3.3 Brings More Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes, KDE Plasma Hang Workaround   Mesa   2023-01-11
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Now Advertises Support For Quake II RTX & DOOM Eternal   Radeon   2022-12-31
Mesa 22.2.5 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2022-12-10
Valve Implements Opt-In VK_KHR_present_wait For Mesa Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2022-11-24
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands APU Fix For Red Dead Redemption 2   Radeon   2022-10-01
Mesa 22.3 RadeonSI Enables OpenGL Threading By Default To Enhance Performance   Radeon   2022-09-21
Mesa's RADV Driver Lands Workaround For Flickering Issue With F1 2021   Linux Gaming   2022-01-01
Radeon RADV Lands Emulated ETC2 Support For Improving Android Support   Radeon   2021-12-14
RADV Working On ETC2 Emulation Support For Newer Radeon GPUs To Satisfy Android   Radeon   2021-12-08
Intel Removes ASTC Hardware From Gen12.5+ Graphics   Intel   2021-10-07
Mesa Lands Option That Can Help XWayland-Based Gaming On The Steam Deck   Mesa   2021-09-13
OpenGL Drivers In 2021 Still Sadly Benefit From Faking Their Driver Name / GPU   Mesa   2021-07-30
A Control Panel / UI For Intel's Linux Graphics Drivers Is Still Under Evaluation   Intel   2021-07-08
Radeon Linux Drivers Now Only Officially Support Smart Access Memory On Zen 3 + RDNA2   Mesa   2021-01-05
RadeonSI Lands Optimization For Uber Shaders   Mesa   2020-10-30
ADRIConf Remains The Primary GUI Control Panel For Managing Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2020-09-22
Mesa 20.3 Will Let You Fake Having Less Video Memory To Help In Debugging   Mesa   2020-09-09
Mesa 20.1.6 Released With Several Radeon Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2020-08-20
Mesa OpenGL Threading Enabled For More Games Yielding Sizable Performance Jumps   Mesa   2020-04-02
Radeon OpenGL Driver Lands Experimental Option To Boost Performance For CAD Software   Radeon   2020-03-26
ADriConf GUI Control Panel Support For Mesa Vulkan Drivers Is Brought Up   Mesa   2019-12-09
The Surge 2 Sees Same-Day Linux Support Via Steam Play, RADV Workaround Needed   Linux Gaming   2019-09-24
Mesa Vulkan Drivers Now Tracking Game Engine/Version For Handling More Workarounds   Radeon   2019-09-15
Mesa 19.2-RC3 Released While Final Release Expected Around Month's End   Mesa   2019-09-12
Intel's Vulkan Driver Now Hooks Into DriConf For Driver Settings/Workarounds   Intel   2019-09-07
Valve's ACO Compiler, Zink, FreeSync & Other Topics To Be Talked About At XDC 2019   X.Org   2019-08-06
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync For Mesa 19.1   Radeon   2019-04-23
Mesa 19.1 Likely To See Radeon "RADV" Vulkan FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync Support   Mesa   2019-04-17
FreeSync Support For RADV Vulkan Driver Blocked By Lack Of Config System   Radeon   2019-04-08
ADriConf Looks To Move Under The Mesa Umbrella As Linux Driver Configuration Utility   Mesa   2019-04-02
GSoC 2019 Could Bring Work On A Vulkan GPU Driver Settings Utility, OpenMAX Additions   X.Org   2019-03-26
Mesa 18.3.5 Released With Intel/Radeon Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-03-18
Mesa 19.0-RC6 Released With Many Intel & Radeon Fixes   Mesa   2019-02-26
RadeonSI Gets NIR Improvements, Enabled By Default For Civilization VI   Radeon   2019-02-19
EGL_MESA_query_driver Merged Into Mesa 19.0, ADriConf Looking For Improvement Ideas   Mesa   2019-01-26
Mesa EGL Extension Needed For Universal Driver Configuration GUI Is Almost Landed   Mesa   2019-01-24
Open-Source / Linux Letdowns For 2018   Free Software   2018-12-31
Mesa Drops Support For AMD Zen L3 Thread Pinning, Will Develop New Approach   Mesa   2018-11-12
More AMD Zen Microarchitecture Tuning For Mesa Is Likely Ahead   Mesa   2018-11-08
Advanced DRI Configuration Picking Up New Features   Mesa   2018-08-04
RadeonTop 1.1 Brings GTT Reporting, Updated PCI IDs   Radeon   2018-03-26
Advanced DRI Configurator Now Supports PRIME GPU Setups   Mesa   2018-03-24
Advanced DRI Configurator: A New Mesa GUI Project   Mesa   2018-01-16
10-bit Color Visual Support Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2018-01-04
There's One Big Feature Left For The Radeon Linux Driver Left To Tackle In 2018   AMD   2017-12-29
RADV Will Now Enable "Sisched" For The Talos Principle, Boosting Frame Rates   Radeon   2017-11-14
More RADV Radeon Vulkan Optimizations Are In The Works   Mesa   2017-11-08
AMD Developers Begin Making Open-Source FreeSync/AdaptiveSync Plans   Radeon   2017-10-17
RadeonSI Lands Another OpenGL 4.6 Extension, SISCHED For DriConf   Mesa   2017-08-02
Mesa Preparing To Support Gallium Driver Specific DRIRC Tuning Options   Mesa   2017-06-30
Students Are Missing Out On An Incredible Opportunity To Get Involved With Mesa, Wayland   Google   2017-04-01
X.Org Has Been Accepted For The 2017 Google Summer of Code   X.Org   2017-02-28
Mesa RFC Changes To Help Worms WMD, Tropico 5 & Crookz   Mesa   2017-02-10
It Looks Like We'll Still See A GUI Control Panel For AMD Linux   AMD   2016-11-25
Mesa's DRIRC Options To Become More Driver-Agnostic   Mesa   2015-06-06
New Patches Will Have Cherryview & Broadwell Owners Looking Toward New Kernel   Intel   2015-01-14
What Do You Wish Was In Mesa 10.0?   Mesa   2013-10-27
DRIConf Is Still A Mess & Leaves A Lot To Be Desired   Mesa   2013-10-16
Features Still Being Sought By Open-Source AMD Users   AMD   2013-08-14
Unigine Heaven 3.0 Now Works For Radeon Gallium3D   Mesa   2013-07-30
Intel Driver To Play A Bit Better With S3TC Compression   Intel   2013-01-21
Nine Reasons Mesa 9.0 Is Disappointing For End-Users   Mesa   2012-10-09
Unigine Pushes Engine Changes; More Mesa Friendly   Linux Gaming   2012-04-06