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Global Offensive Articles & Reviews

Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive   Linux Gaming   2021-12-15
Is The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Fast Enough For Steam On Linux Gaming?   Display Drivers   2014-11-19
AMD Radeon Gallium3D Is Catching Up & Sometimes Beating Catalyst On Linux   Display Drivers   2014-11-17
CS:GO & TF2 Extensively Tested On The Newest Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver   Graphics Cards   2014-11-12
Preview: Radeon Gallium3D Performance For CS:GO On Linux   Linux Gaming   2014-09-29
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive NVIDIA/AMD Benchmarks On Linux   Linux Gaming   2014-09-23

Global Offensive Linux & Open-Source News

Mesa 23.3 Will Enable More Efficient MSAA Anti-Aliasing Use With Radeon RDNA3 GPUs   Mesa   2023-10-03
AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git   Linux Gaming   2023-09-16
Intel Graphics With Linux 6.6 Adds Tuning Knobs That Can Yield 10~15% Better Performance   Intel   2023-08-04
Intel Arc Graphics Driver Change Leads To A Big Speed-Up Under Linux   Intel   2023-06-24
Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 Quick Linux Competition With The Radeon RX 7600   Intel   2023-05-26
New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Allow Tuning For Up To 10~15% Better Performance   Intel   2023-04-27
Valve Officially Announces Counter-Strike 2   Valve   2023-03-22
Mesa Driver Improvement Will Yield Quicker Startup For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive   Mesa   2022-09-13
Intel Lands 20~40% Performance Optimization For Arc Graphics In Mesa 22.0   Intel   2022-01-11
Zink Working On Sparse Textures, Other Improvements To Kick Off 2022   Mesa   2022-01-05
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Adds Experimental Vulkan Support   Valve   2021-12-14
Compute PBO Download Support Merged For Mesa 22.0, Xnine Comes For Source Engine Games   Mesa   2021-11-19
Mesa's Exciting Milestones So Far In 2021 From Zink To Great Intel/AMD Open-Source Work   Mesa   2021-06-27
CS:GO Trust Factor Fixed For Linux Gamers With Mesa Drivers   Valve   2021-05-20
Mesa 21.x Seems To Muck Up Gamers' Trust Factor For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive   Mesa   2021-05-03
Mesa 21.1 Squeezes In Improvements For Direct3D 9 (Gallium Nine)   Mesa   2021-04-14
The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021   Mesa   2021-03-29
Mesa 21.0 RadeonSI Will Run Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Faster   Mesa   2021-01-11
RadeonSI Adds Workaround To Deal With Incorrect Rendering In Counter-Strike: GO   Radeon   2019-05-07
Counter-Strike: GO Goes Battle Royale With Danger Zone   Valve   2018-12-06
Valve Publishes The Source To Their Game Networking Sockets Library   Valve   2018-03-31
Valve To Open-Source Their Steam Networking Sockets Library   Valve   2018-03-27
The Open Benchmarks So Far Available For Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016   Phoronix Test Suite   2018-03-19
Mesa 17.3-RC4 Released, Handful Of Blocker Bugs Still Left   Mesa   2017-11-14
FreeCS: Aiming For An Open-Source Counter-Strike Implementation   Linux Gaming   2017-11-10
The Steam Linux Client Celebrates Its Fifth Public Birthday   Valve   2017-11-06
More AMDGPU DC + RadeonSI/RADV vs. NVIDIA Linux OpenGL+Vulkan Benchmarks   Hardware   2017-10-05
Marek Threads RadeonSI Gallium3D, Big Performance Gains For Many Games   Mesa   2017-05-10
Former Valve Developer: Steam Linux Project Was The Hardest   Valve   2016-12-31
Linux Gaming Was Great In 2016, But 2017 Should Be Even Better   Linux Gaming   2016-12-27
How The AMD Polaris Open-Source Driver Performance Has Evolved Since Launch   Radeon   2016-10-30
CS:GO Finally Shifts Over To 64-bit Build On Linux   Linux Gaming   2016-05-26
Mesa 11.3 Isn't A Game Changer For Intel's Haswell   Intel   2016-05-19
Testing OpenGL 4.1 With An AMD Cypress GPU On The Latest Open-Source Driver   AMD   2016-01-30
Valve Rolls Out Useful Linux Updates For TF2 & CS:GO   Valve   2016-01-07
Reworking The Steam Linux Automated Game Tests   Linux Gaming   2015-12-17
It's Been 3 Years Since Valve Launched The Steam Linux Beta, Now At 1,600+ Linux Games   Valve   2015-11-07
Running Some Fresh Windows 10 vs. Linux Graphics/Gaming Benchmarks   Proprietary Software   2015-11-06
A Massive SteamOS Graphics Card Comparison Is Coming   Valve   2015-10-21
Some Linux Game Developers Don't Even Have Contacts At AMD   AMD   2015-09-29
CS:GO & TF2 Benchmarks Updated For Linux   Linux Gaming   2015-08-21
Steam On Linux Continues Climbing Past 1,300 Games   Valve   2015-07-22
Are Intel Iris Pro 6200 Graphics Fast Enough For Steam Linux Gaming?   Intel   2015-07-14
AMD Catalyst 15.7 Linux Benchmarks: R9 290 Hawaii & R9 285 Tonga   AMD   2015-07-09
Is The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Fast Enough For Steam Linux Gaming?   Nouveau   2015-07-08
A Look At CS:GO & TF2 On AMD GPUs With The Open-Source Driver   AMD   2015-07-08
Is The AMD A10-7870K Fast Enough For Steam Linux Gaming?   Linux Gaming   2015-06-12
Linux Game Publishing Remains Down For The Count   Linux Gaming   2015-05-05
Ubuntu 15.04 Brings Better Intel Performance For CS:GO & TF2   Intel   2015-04-21
Linux 4.0 Will Run Source Engine Games Faster For Intel Haswell   Linux Kernel   2015-03-12
Valve Announces Source 2, It's Going To Be Free To Content Developers   Linux Gaming   2015-03-03
Running Benchmarks On Newer, Popular AAA Linux Games***   Linux Gaming   2015-01-10
The Intel Haswell OpenGL Performance Boosting Patch Is Published   Intel   2015-01-06
The Most Significant Linux Gaming Milestones Of 2014   Linux Gaming   2014-12-27
Valve Optimizations, D3D9 & GL4 Topped Mesa This Year   Mesa   2014-12-26
CS:GO Lowers Its Memory Usage On Linux   Linux Gaming   2014-12-11
Nouveau On Mesa 10.5-devel Doesn't Change Much   Mesa   2014-12-01
November Was Great For Linux Users, But December Will Be Especially Interesting   Phoronix   2014-11-30
AMD Gallium3D Marks Huge Win: Beating Catalyst In Steam On Linux Game   AMD   2014-11-13
Major Performance Breakthrough Discovered For Intel's Mesa Driver   Intel   2014-11-05
AMD Radeon R9 285 Linux GPU Scaling Performance   Radeon   2014-10-16
Steam Linux Usage Rose 0.1% During September   Linux Gaming   2014-10-02
CS:GO For Linux Gains Better Stability, Community Server Support   Valve   2014-10-01
Systemd & Debian Were Most Popular In September   Phoronix   2014-09-30
Intel Haswell HD Graphics With CS:GO On Linux   Intel   2014-09-29
The Most Dominating Linux Stories Of Q3'2014   Phoronix   2014-09-29
Preview Numbers For The GeForce GTX 980 On Ubuntu Linux   NVIDIA   2014-09-28
A Future Catalyst Update Will Improve CS:GO's Linux Performance   Valve   2014-09-27
The Next AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Is Much More Exciting   AMD   2014-09-26
RadeonSI Gallium3D Might Run As Well As Catalyst For CS:GO Linux   Mesa   2014-09-24
Valve Rolls Out A New Steam Storefront   Valve   2014-09-23
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Starts Rolling Out To Linux Users   Linux Gaming   2014-09-22
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Is Getting Close To Launching On Linux   Valve   2014-09-11
PlayOnLinux Has Experimental BSD Support   WINE   2014-09-04
Steam On Linux Now Offers 600+ Games   Valve   2014-08-03
NVIDIA's Tegra K1 & Linux Gaming Were Popular In May   Phoronix   2014-05-31
Valve-Sponsored Mesa Work Makes Games Load A Lot Faster   Mesa   2014-05-04
Valve's Gabe Newell Makes New Linux Comments   Valve   2014-03-04
Setting Performance Expectations For Wine Direct3D   WINE   2014-02-04
Intel Continues Optimizing Counter-Strike: GO For Linux   Mesa   2014-01-26
Valve's Dota 2 Now Officially Available For Linux   Valve   2013-07-19
Steam Linux Usage Still On The Decline   Valve   2013-05-01
Left 4 Dead 2 Beta On Linux Coming Next Week   Linux Gaming   2013-04-25
Counter-Strike: GO Might Soon Be Out On Linux   Linux Gaming   2013-04-10
Valve Has Been Working Hard On Linux For One Year   Valve   2013-03-30
Counter-Strike Source Now On Steam For Linux   Valve   2013-02-05
Counter-Strike 1.6 Also Native To Linux   Linux Gaming   2013-01-25
2013 Is Going To Be The Year Of Linux Gaming   Free Software   2012-12-29
Steam Greenlight Begins Listing Games For Linux   Valve   2012-09-12
Valve's Full Linux Push Talked About For February   Valve   2012-09-01
Valve Releases New CS: Global Offensive Trailer   Valve   2012-08-18
The Latest Humble Bundle Grows In Size   Linux Gaming   2012-03-26
Btrfs & Counter-Strike: Global Offensive   Linux Gaming   2012-03-23
New Footage Of CS: Global Offensive   Linux Gaming   2011-08-26