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Wine 8.17 Released With VKD3D 1.9 Upgrade, Initial Window Management For Wayland Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 09/30/2023 - 04:48
Wine 8.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux as well as serving as the basis for Valve's Proton that powers Steam Play...

Linux's modprobe Adds The Ability To Load A Module From Anywhere On The File-System

Phoronix - Sat, 09/30/2023 - 02:19
With today's release of kmod 31, Linux's modprobe utility for loading kernel modules can finally allow arbitrary paths to allow loading new kernel modules from anywhere on the file-system...

Linux 6.7 To Support New Intel DG2-G12 Stepping, More Raptor Lake IDs

Phoronix - Sat, 09/30/2023 - 00:46
Intel's Linux graphics driver engineers have begun submitting their feature changes to DRM-Next of new i915 kernel driver feature material they are preparing for the Linux 6.7 cycle this winter...

Intel Arrow Lake NPU Support Slides Into Linux 6.6 IVPU Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 09/29/2023 - 22:15
With the Intel Arrow Lake NPU being very similar to Meteor Lake for this neural processing unit, the patches enabling that NPU for next-gen Intel Core CPUs was submitted as a "fix" for the ongoing Linux 6.6 cycle...

AMD FSR 3 Now Available - Open-Source Code To Come Soon

Phoronix - Fri, 09/29/2023 - 21:52
AMD announced today that the Windows games Immortals of Aveum and Forspoken are available today with their FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) upscaling technology. More games making use of FSR 3 are on the way and the open-source code drop of FSR 3 is coming at a later date...

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