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VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 19:04
Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what's used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve's downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)...

AlmaLinux To Unveil Media/Entertainment Linux OS Edition

Phoronix - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 18:31
AlmaLinux shared with us that they will be introducing a new version of their RHEL-derived Linux operating system that is built specifically for media and entertainment use-cases...

More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2

Phoronix - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 18:23
AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window...

chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL

Phoronix - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 18:16
A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success...

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