Linux Graphics & Gaming News
KDE Plasma 6.8 is receiving improved performance and efficiency for various full-screen content, with several enhancements integrated into its development codebase in late July. These updates aim to o...
Read more →This week, Chromium's build system gained the capability to generate Flatpak packages of the browser. A commit by Google's Tom Anderson introduced the necessary packaging scripts and an 'enable_flatpa...
Read more →Between August 19 and August 26, 2026, 131 new games with native Linux builds were released on Steam. This volume represents approximately 12.5% of the 1051 total games launched for Windows on the pla...
Read more →The PoCL (Portable Computing Language) project has recently released PoCL 7.2-RC1, a release candidate now available for testing. This version brings official OpenCL 3.0 conformance for execution on R...
Read more →PCSX2, the open-source PlayStation 2 emulator, released version 2.8.0 today, August 29, 2026. This new iteration is notable for being the project's "first immutable release," as stated by the develope...
Read more →NVIDIA yesterday released version 595.44.15 of its open GPU kernel modules. Tagged on GitHub as 2026-08-28, this update is an NVIDIA Vulkan Developer Beta Driver, primarily focusing on experimental Vu...
Read more →The Khronos Group was a central presence at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles in late July, showcasing over 20 sessions focused on the future of graphics and spatial computing. On Wednesday, July 22, a ded...
Read more →DXVK 3.1 was released today, bringing new feature support for Direct3D 8 through 11 implementations atop the Vulkan API. The update introduces basic support for DXGI incremental presentation, which re...
Read more →The Khronos Group today released Vulkan 1.4.361, a specification update that incorporates a new NVIDIA vendor extension. This minor update continues the ongoing evolution of the Vulkan API, providing ...
Read more →NVIDIA has recently released the 595.99.02 driver for its open GPU kernel modules on Linux. This update provides ongoing maintenance and improvements for users running NVIDIA hardware on Linux systems...
Read more →A merge request for GPU reset recovery has been submitted to GNOME's Mutter compositor this last week. This implementation stems from a Google Summer of Code 2026 project aimed at improving system res...
Read more →The AMD FSR plugin for Unreal Engine 5.8 has recently been updated, as announced by AMD GPUOpen. This update brings ML-powered upscaling and frame generation capabilities directly into the Unreal Engi...
Read more →The Xemu original Xbox emulator's latest development builds feature significant emulation enhancements. A new DSP56300 emulator with a Just-In-Time (JIT) execution engine has been implemented for the ...
Read more →Collabora's Tyr project has reached a significant milestone, implementing core GPU memory management capabilities within its Rust-based GPU kernel driver. Detailed in a blog post yesterday, August 26,...
Read more →The LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain received updates yesterday to enhance its support for AMD Zen 1, Zen+, and Zen 2 processors. This work, contributed by the open-source community, specifically address...
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