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Wine 9.0 is now available (gitlab.winehq.org)

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.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 released for easy compatibility tool installs on Linux / Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)

ProtonUp-Qt is an essential tool to help you install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda, Wine-GE and more for Steam, Heroic and Lutris for Linux desktop and Steam Deck....

W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development inflection with Godot Engine (w4games.com)

GE-Proton8-24 Released (github.com)

Added protonfix for Fable III...

Lenovo Legion Go - Can it Linux? (linuxgamingcentral.com)

The Ongoing Work For Native Wine Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)

Intel Comes Up With A Way For Vulkan Sparse Support On Their Existing Linux Driver (www.phoronix.com)

MangoHud v0.7 out now adding presets support like on Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)

MangoHud, the awesome tool you can use to get a HUD on top of your games (included by default on the Steam Deck), has released version 0.7.0 that includes many new options so here’s what’s changed.

NVIDIA posts NVAPI core software development kit on GitHub (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Without any additional commit messages except the repository description, Nvidia posted the source code for its Developer Kit tool on Github under the NVIDIA Corporation organization umbrella.

Mesa Adds GPUVis Integration - GPU Trace Visualizer (www.phoronix.com)

GE-Proton8-12 Released (github.com)

FSR is no longer enabled by default as it was found to limit in-game resolutions in some games. To enable/use it you will need...

Starfox meets Vampire Survivors - Whisker Squadron: Survivor out August 21st (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Fake Sparse Support Being Worked On For Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver (www.phoronix.com)

For support of some D3D12 games that request sparse resource support but don’t actually need it.

Mesa RADV Driver Re-Enables Ray-Tracing Pipelines For AMD VanGogh APUs / Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)

Last month The RADV ray-tracing pipelines support was enabled by default but then later disabled for VanGogh APUs, notably the Steam Deck. Now though with the latest ray-tracing code in Mesa 23.2-devel the RADV driver is no longer blocking the support for VanGogh.

Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements (www.gamingonlinux.com)

31 bugs were noted as solved with this release including fixes for: Combat Mission Shock Force (a bug from 2007!), Starcraft II, Flutter SDK, Excel 2016, Harry Potter Magic Awakened and plenty more miscellaneous fixes for expected behaviour of Windows apps.

ChimeraOS 43 out now adding ASUS ROG Ally support (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Skyrim + SKSE (Skyrim & Skyrim Special Edition) (www.reddit.com)

I found a easy way to get SKSE for work for Skyrim and Skyrim Special Edition....

nVidia releases 535.54.03 driver (www.nvidia.com)

As seen across many places in the Linux news (Phoronix, GamingOnLinux, other linux_gaming instances) is the new release from nVidia. For those not in the know, you most likely will want to wait for your distro’s packagers to release this for your distro instead of going out and trying this installation manually....

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