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VA-API's Libva 2.18 Released With Windows WSL D3D12 Support, Optional Disabling DRI3

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 23:30
Version 2.18 of the VA-API library, libva, has been released today for this Linux Video Acceleration API library that is used by the various driver implementations...

Turtle Beach REACT-R & Recon Xbox Controllers To Be Supported In Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 20:12
Turtle Beach gaming controllers will see support by the widely-used XPad driver with the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel...

QNX Support Restored For SDL3

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 18:50
When SDL3 development kicked off last November for this open-source library that is widely used by cross-platform games and other software, QNX support was removed alongside other old targets. Just months later, the QNX platform support is being revived...

Vulkan 1.3.245 Brings New NVIDIA Vendor Extension To Help Optimize Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 18:28
The Vulkan 1.3.245 extension is a small update to this industry-standard graphics/compute API with just a handful of issues resolved but it does introduce one new extension, which is a NVIDIA vendor extension aiming to further enhance Vulkan ray-tracing...

Intel Releases GPGMM v0.1 GPU Memory Management Library

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 18:06
Intel has published v0.1 of its GPGMM software, the open-source General-Purpose GPU Memory Management Library. This library is intended to be used by modern software employing the Vulkan or D3D12 APIs for helping application developers deal with low-level video memory management...

OpenBLAS 0.3.22 Introduces EmScripten JavaScript, Fixes AMD Zen 4 Handling

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 17:52
A new release of OpenBLAS is now available, the open-source BLAS and LAPACK implementation known for its wide variety of processor optimizations...

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