Linux Graphics & Gaming News
The Khronos Group this week announced the deprecation of host-side ray tracing acceleration structure build commands in Vulkan. This change streamlines the Vulkan Ray Tracing API, moving towards a sin...
Read more →Linux Mint announced today that its upcoming Linux Mint 23 release will offer full Wayland support, moving it beyond an experimental option. The development team stated that "both X11 and Wayland will...
Read more →XWayland 24.1.13 was released yesterday, July 7, 2026, to address two newly disclosed security issues affecting the X.Org Server codebase. XWayland, which utilizes components from the X.Org Server, is...
Read more →Razer is currently certifying its first laptop for Ubuntu Linux, the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582. This process, underway in 2026, marks Razer's entry into the Linux-certified hardware space. The Razer Bl...
Read more →Wine, that allows Windows games to run on Linux through Steam Play.">Proton 11.0-1 was released today as the newest stable major version of Valve's compatibility layer. This update powers Steam Play, enhancing the Windows gaming experience across Linux systems and the ...
Read more →Microsoft engineers recently contributed accelerated AV1 video encoding capabilities to the Mesa 26.2 codebase. This new functionality enables GPU-accelerated AV1 encoding by leveraging a combination ...
Read more →Marek Olšák, a long-time AMD Linux graphics driver expert who joined Valve earlier this year, has had his latest work merged for Mesa 26.2. Olšák, now focusing primarily on the RADV Vulkan driver rath...
Read more →The Intel ANV open-source driver recently re-enabled Vulkan Video H.264 and H.265 encode capabilities for Gen12.5 graphics hardware and newer on Linux. This change specifically impacts Intel Arc A-Ser...
Read more →The Godot Asset Store has officially opened, coinciding with the release of Godot 4.7. The new store currently features the OpenXR vendors plugin along with free samples that demonstrate functionality...
Read more →DXVK v3.0.1 has recently been released, focusing on stability improvements and bug fixes for DirectX 9 and DirectX 11 games running on Linux via Wine or Proton. The most notable change is the disablin...
Read more →D7VK 1.12 was released yesterday, providing the latest iteration of the translation layer designed for Direct3D 7 and older APIs running on top of the Vulkan API. This release enables compatibility an...
Read more →The PCSX2 project recently released version 2.7.450 of its PlayStation 2 emulator, which includes an update to its SDL3 dependency. This new version now utilizes SDL3 3.4.12. SDL3, the Simple DirectMe...
Read more →Phoronix reported today that a set of patches targeting the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler has demonstrated significant potential for reducing job submission latency. These im...
Read more →The FEX Emulator, which enables running x86/x86_64 Linux software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, has released its newest monthly feature update, FEX 2607. Released this month, FEX 2607 introduces additio...
Read more →wgpu v29.0.4 was recently released, bringing new features and bug fixes for its various graphics API backends. A notable addition for Linux users is the new capability to initialize OpenGL (GLES) usin...
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