TUXEDO Computers Launches First All-AMD Linux Gaming Laptop (www.phoronix.com)
Wine 8.21 brings High-DPI scaling and initial Vulkan support for Wayland (www.gamingonlinux.com)
vkd3d-proton 2.11 Released [D3D12-to-Vulkan layer] (github.com)
This release rolls up a bunch of features, perf improvements and bug fixes / workarounds as usual....
GE-Proton8-25 Released (github.com)
HOTFIX:...
Steam using CPU to process vulkan shaders instead of GPU? (kbin.social)
Hey all, I have a RTX 3060 and a Ryzen 5600G and I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. Since Steam has shader pre-processing on Linux I thought I'd ask on a Linux gaming community about this. I noticed that when Steam processes Vulkan shaders, it uses the CPU (my CPU heats up a lot and the process manager shows CPU being used while GPU is not...
Ubuntu Summit recap + new future proof Lutris machine | Lutris (www.patreon.com)
Wine-GE-Proton8-24 Released (github.com)
HOTFIX:...
NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance (www.collabora.com)
Wine-GE-Proton8-23 Released (github.com)
Added yakuza 5 cutscenes fix (thanks NishiyamaPedro) gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/…/4244...
GE-Proton8-24 Released (github.com)
Added protonfix for Fable III...
Vulkan Support Begins Landing For Wine's Wayland Driver (www.phoronix.com)
A few days ago the Wine Wayland driver merged HiDPI support improvements and now for ending out the week is yet more work to land for Wine’s Wayland driver: the first bits of Vulkan enablement…
Proton Experimental fixes controls in Starfield and supports Assassin's Creed Mirage (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine (www.phoronix.com)
TR1X (formerly Tomb1Main), open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider (1996), releases version 3.0 with Linux support (Linked version: 3.0.2) (github.com)
Note that I’ve linked the latest version at the time of writing this (3.0.2), the original 3.0 version with its changelog is available here: github.com/LostArtefacts/TR1X/releases/tag/3.0...
ProtonDB now accepts Chromebook reports (www.protondb.com)
Consider Supporting Plasma 6 - KDE Community (kde.org)
While not being directly related to Linux gaming, this does effect gaming in various ways. From Plasma getting features like HDR, Compositor Hand-offs, Crash Recovery that protects against progress loss, true Hibernation and a mega-ton more, to contributions to various Wayland protocols & advancement to Linux as a whole, to...
Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr WIP Vulkan support for old HD 6000 cards (late 2000s/early 2010s) developed by dev that also works on Xenia and implemented the complicated fragment shader interlock extension used by some emulators
TuxClocker 1.3 Preparing Additional AMD GPU Voltage & Memory Controls (www.phoronix.com)
GE-Proton8-23 Released (github.com)
added reverts for vrclient to allow VRChat to work again (pending proper fix from valve: ValveSoftware#1199 (comment))...
Open-Source-Gaming-Tournament – Play and support Open-Source-Games! (open-source-gaming-tournament.com)
🎮 Join the **Open Source Gaming Tournament! **🎮...
Nouveau NVIDIA GSP Firmware Support Merged For Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Nouveau GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware integration that allows making use of NVIDIA’s binary GSP firmware on RTX 20 “Turing” and newer GPUs for having improved support. In turn this GSP route also provides initial support for GeForce RTX 40 series support....
Lenovo Legion Go - Can it Linux? (linuxgamingcentral.com)
KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games (www.phoronix.com)
Apex Legends Ignite Update broke anti-cheat on Steam Deck/Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Well, here we go again. Apex Legends just launched the Ignite Update, and with it sadly it seems they messed up Easy Anti-Cheat for Steam Deck/Linux.
GE-Proton8-22 Released (github.com)
Alan Wake 2 HDR fixup added from upstream: ValveSoftware/wine@1182ef7...
