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VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 27 May 2026 at 12:58 PM EDT. 7 Comments Valve's VKD3D-Proton component to Steam Play…
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VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 27 May 2026 at 12:58 PM EDT. 7 Comments Valve's VKD3D-Proton component to Steam Play…
As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan…
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…Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux team also looked over the code as did Marek Olšák who recently joined Valve too. This merge for better instruction cache pre-fetching on RDNA3 and…
…3 Comments Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux graphics driver team announced the release today of VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 for Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API. Arntzen noted right…
While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on…
…VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index was developed by Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team. Blumenkrantz notably is one of the lead developers of Mesa's Zink driver for generic OpenGL…
…Mike Blumenkrantz and Hans-Kristian Arntzen, both of Valve's Linux / Steam Play efforts, were involved in these additions as were NVIDIA and Collabora. Among the maintenance changes are some small enhancements…