Firefox 153 is finally ditching the Nvidia driver workaround Linux users have hated
… Sign in to your XDA account Summary Firefox adds a Vulkan video path, removing the need for nvidia-vaapi-driver on Nvidia GPUs. …
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I bought the RX 9070 XT for FSR 4, but the games I actually play don't support it
… Vulkan titles are flat-out excluded The override is strictly DX12 only AMD's documentation is explicit on the fact that the FSR 4 driver override is DirectX 12-only. Vulkan titles cannot use it regardless of whether they ship native FSR 3.1, and no Adrenalin setting changes that. …
The Orange Pi Zero 3W beats the Raspberry Pi 5 on paper, but it can't use half its own hardware
… The PowerVR GPU's kernel module isn't loaded at all, and there are no Vulkan, OpenGL ES, or OpenCL libraries. The video engine has its kernel driver loaded and exposes its character device under /dev, but nothing in userspace can use it. …
I tried playing PC games on my phone, and the only thing that worked was a community rebuild of the most controversial app in the scene
… The newest Snapdragon is the wrong chip for this right now It can work, but support isn't universal The first thing that goes wrong on a Snapdragon 8 Elite is the Vulkan driver. …
I ran local LLMs on Intel's cheapest iGPU, and the results were surprisingly decent
… After launching the LXC, I entered the following commands to install the necessary drivers alongside the vainfo utility, which confirmed that LXC was capable of harnessing the iGPU. apt update apt install -y intel-media-va-driver vainfo Compiling llama.cpp server required a couple of extra tweaks H… …
Valve isn't ditching Windows or x86, but it's quietly making both optional
… The thing that makes those numbers possible is "thunking." FEX's thunking layer lets OpenGL and Vulkan calls from the translated x86 environment route into native aarch64 graphics libraries and drivers instead of emulating the entire graphics stack. …
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless
… Direct3D calls have to go somewhere, and on Linux, the most practical modern target is Vulkan. DXVK translates those Direct3D calls to Vulkan, which Linux handles natively and efficiently. …
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
… Vulkan support has been bumped to API version 1.4, and there's initial support for hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding through Direct3D 11 video APIs using Vulkan Video. …
Linux gaming is almost there, but 3 missing pieces keep me booting into Windows
… I still need to be ready for a Proton version mismatch, inferior driver performance, or the distro itself being the wrong choice. When I'm on Windows, I can still run into performance or compatibility issues, but they're easy enough to solve. …
Linux is finally ready for gamers, but gamers are still not ready for Linux
… Even the driver issues plaguing Nvidia graphics cards have been significantly mitigated with third-party development. …