Valve recently announced that it was independently developing its own open source shader compiler (called "ACO") for Linux to act as an alternative for the existing LLVM compiler. Now, I realize ...

The AMD Vulkan Linux Driver will be open sourced before Xmas, according to a report from Linux-focussed tech site Phoronix. Apparently Linux users have been waiting for this patiently for nearly two ...

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For decades, Windows has remained the gaming platform of choice for PC users. Linux gaming has suffered from poor hardware support and lack of titles, but that could slowly change. Hardware upgrades, ...

A few days ago we reported that multi-GPU support in Vulkan was exclusive to Windows 10, but Khonos Group has reiterated that this isn't true - and that multi-GPU support under Vulkan will work with ...

AMD graphics cards are getting some Linux love from what might seem like an unlikely source: Valve. Source. Valve. C'mon… Whatever. A team of software engineers in Valve has been working on a new ...

The look of games on Linux-based Steam machines and mobile devices should improve significantly with the soon-to-be-released Vulkan API (application programming interface). Vulkan can be used for many ...

With newer GeForce GPUs, Linux distributions will use a driver for OpenGL applications that hands over the actual work to a Vulkan driver. In future, Linux distributions will rely on the "Zink" driver ...