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Proton 8.0-1 Published With More Games Now Running On Steam Play

Phoronix - Tue, 04/18/2023 - 03:19
Valve and CodeWeavers have made available Proton 8.0-1 as their newest version of this downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux...

Renewed Work For ACO Compiler Support With The RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 04/17/2023 - 23:43
Back in 2019 Valve developers introduced the ACO compiler back-end within Mesa for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver. This alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler has been instrumental in helping RADV perform very well for Linux gaming both with Vulkan native titles as well as games going the route of DirectX to Vulkan via DXVK and VKD3D with Proton (Steam Play). On and off there's been talk and work towards bringing ACO to RadeonSI Gallium3D for OpenGL while now there is some new work on this front...

GCC 13.1 Compiler Likely Releasing Next Week

Phoronix - Mon, 04/17/2023 - 22:15
The GNU Compiler Collection 13 codebase has no more P1 bugs, which are regressions of the highest priority, and as such the GCC 13 codebase was branched today with plans of issuing GCC 13.1-rc1 likely in the next day and hopefully releasing GCC 13.1 as the first stable release of the GCC 13 series next week...

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