Vulkan 1.4.344 introduces a Valve-developed extension for mixed precision dot product operations in shaders, supporting various combinations of low-precision inputs with higher precision accumulation.
Wine 11.10 ships with VKD3D 2.0 for improved Direct3D 12 over Vulkan, native XPath support without libxml2, VBScript fixes, and 17 bug fixes.
VKD3D-Proton has merged VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support, a major rewrite that promises more predictable D3D12 performance on Linux across NVIDIA, AMD RADV, and Intel ANV drivers.
Wine's upstream Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer jumps to version 2.0 with expanded HLSL support, DXIL improvements, and experimental Metal Shading Language output.
Valve's Timur Kristóf has posted patches adding DRM format modifier support to AMD GCN 1.0 through GFX8 GPUs, the last AMDGPU-supported cards that lacked it.
Valve's latest Proton beta fixes EA App lock-ups, a frame rate regression in They Are Billions, and updates VKD3D-Proton with Marvel's Avengers fixes.
Box64 0.4.2 adds an initial PPC64LE back-end for IBM POWER hardware alongside Steam Runtime 3 and Proton 11.0 support, expanding x86_64 emulation across four architectures.
A Valve engineer's patch series finally enables the Radeon HD 7870 XT to work under Linux, fixing a 14-year-old bug caused by the GPU's unusual harvested silicon configuration.
Valve's Linux graphics team merges RDNA 4m (GFX 11.7) Vulkan driver support into Mesa, revealing next-gen floating point features headed to unannounced AMD APUs.
RADV lands VK_EXT_descriptor_heap in Mesa 26.1, a Vulkan extension designed to improve descriptor management for DXVK and VKD3D-Proton translation layers used by Steam Play.
A Valve engineer's kernel and KDE patches give foreground games priority VRAM access, dramatically improving Linux gaming on 8 GB GPUs.
Linux 7.1 switches GCN 1.1 APUs like Kaveri and Kabini to the modern AMDGPU driver, bringing better performance and Vulkan support to these older AMD chips.
Valve-backed Mesa developers are exploring per-game optimization profiles and shader tuning for Linux graphics drivers, a technique long used on Windows to boost gaming performance.
Valve developer Timur Kristóf fixed a bug preventing AMD Radeon GPUs in decade-old Intel iMacs from working with Linux's AMDGPU driver, enabling better performance and Vulkan support.
Wine 10.20 bundles VKD3D 1.18 and fixes 31 bugs as the project prepares for next week's Wine 11.0 code freeze.