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Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 21:15
Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics driver team primarily working on the RADV Vulkan driver has come up with a new interesting creation: patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for sharply improving the gaming experience for those running systems with limited amounts of video memory. Such as for graphics cards with just 8GB of dedicated vRAM, the patches now available -- initially on CachyOS for a nice out-of-the-box experience -- provide a noticeably better Linux gaming experience...

FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan-Accelerated 360 Degree Video Conversion

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 20:26
Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...

AMD Making It Easier To Embed Lemonade AI Capabilities Into Other Apps

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 18:18
The open-source Lemonade local AI server that enables using Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux for LLM usage as well as AMD Radeon GPU support and common x86_64 CPU support (in addition to Microsoft Windows support) is now becoming easier to embed within other apps for AI usage...

RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 17:53
The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week...

Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 17:37
Miracle-WM as the Wayland compositor / window manager built atop Canonical's Mir project is out with a big new feature release. This "hackable" and i3/Sway-inspired Wayland compositor has landed a WebAssembly-based plug-in system for opening up new possibilities as well as a new Rust API with this week's v0.9 release...

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