Lutris 0.5.15 Fixes Crashes When Using Wayland With High DPI Gaming Mice (www.phoronix.com)
Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration (www.phoronix.com)
AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Tried A 13th Time (www.phoronix.com)
Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0 (www.phoronix.com)
With testing many different shaders over dozens of games, the generated instruction count was down by about 2.5%, the code size around 2% lower, etc. Some users report this quantifying in some games like Cyberpunk 2077 yielding 4~14% better performance.
Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs (www.phoronix.com)
Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0 (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 HID: Steam Controller Driver Fixes From SteamOS, Nintendo NSO Controller Support (www.phoronix.com)
MSI Launches Claw A1M Handheld Gaming Device With Core Ultra 7 CPU, Starts At $699 [Windows 11 Home as OS] (www.phoronix.com)
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024. In turn the Linux 6.8 merge window will then open tomorrow and run for the next two weeks. For those curious about the features expected for Linux 6.8, here’s an early look at some of the changes expected to land for that next kernel cycle....
Mesa RADV Driver Baking Improvements For VKD3D-Proton With AMD FSR3 (www.phoronix.com)
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver [Linux] Improvement Scores Huge Ray-Tracing Wins (www.phoronix.com)
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvement Scores Huge Ray-Tracing Wins (www.phoronix.com)
Steam On Linux At Nearly 2% For Ending Out 2023 (www.phoronix.com)
AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023 (www.phoronix.com)
Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023 (www.phoronix.com)
Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future (www.phoronix.com)
Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate....
Nobara 39 Released - Customized Version Of Fedora Catering To Gamers/Enthusiasts (www.phoronix.com)
KDE KWin Merge Request Opened For Dynamic Triple Buffering (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Arrow Lake Sound Support Ready For Linux 6.8 (www.phoronix.com)
