NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)
A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine [Madworld] (www.phoronix.com)
article: The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers (www.phoronix.com)
“The most recent example is a now-merged merge request to revert an earlier change bumping the Zlib dependency for Mesa. The basis for that revert is that it breaks SPECViewPerf.”...
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex (www.phoronix.com)
Update: DXVK-NVAPI 0.7 was also released just now with NVIDIA Reflex for D3D12 support using the VKD3D-Proton entry points. There is also support for Latencyflex on non-NVIDIA GPUs for a few games via spoofing the Pascal architecture for non-NVIDIA GPUs. Plus various other updates and improvements.
RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1 (www.phoronix.com)
FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9 (www.phoronix.com)
openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet (www.phoronix.com)
The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux distribution has begun rolling out the KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02 apps, and Frameworks 6.0 packages. Plasma 5 is being replaced within the Tumbleweed repository but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn’t yet transitioning to the Wayland session by default.
AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
AMD’s HIP Ray-Tracing library “HIP RT” has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced… That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available.
Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Launches Core i9 14900KS, Clocking Up To 6.2GHz (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default (www.phoronix.com)
OBS Studio 30.1 Released With AV1 Support For VA-API & PipeWire Video Capture (www.phoronix.com)
GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs (www.phoronix.com)
Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support (www.phoronix.com)
Intel FRED Merged For Linux 6.9 As An Important Improvement With Future CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations (www.phoronix.com)
Niri, the scrolling WM, now supports touch input