VentureBeat

Vulkan gets tools, drivers to bring ray tracing to PS5, Xbox, and AMD

The next generation of real-time visuals is ray tracing, and developers can now turn to the open Vulkan graphics API to bring this tech into their games. The Khronos Group consortium announced today ...
GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one

NVIDIA released Beta driver 595.45.04 for Linux and it includes support for some new Vulkan extensions that could help ...
TweakTown

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan RADV driver for ray-tracing updated to deliver up to 3X performance

RADV is Mesa's unofficial open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux that adds ray-tracing support for older RDNA 2-based Radeon GPUs like the Radeon RX 6800 XT. Games like Hitman III, Quake II RTX, ...
PCGamesN

This open source Nvidia driver update just boosted Linux game support

This new Nvidia driver update announcement relates to the Mesa 3D graphics library, a project that looks to create open source alternatives to proprietary graphics drivers. This enables otherwise ...
ZDNet

Raspberry Pi 4: Higher-quality, faster graphics edge closer with Vulkan support via Mesa

Raspberry Pi 4 owners will be pleased to know that Vulkan support is one step closer thanks to the Vulkan driver, V3DV, being merged in the latest version of the Mesa ...
ZDNet

Raspberry Pi 400, Pi 4 pass key Vulkan test: It's a 'major milestone' for better graphics

The Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, and the Compute Module 4 have passed a key test to get Vulkan support, which will eventually give developers better access to the computers' Broadcom VideoCore ...
TWCN Tech News

Fix Vulkan Initialization Failure in No Man’s Sky, Yuzu, Doom, etc

Unable to initialize Vulkan (vkEnumeratelnstanceExtension Properties failed.) You may not have a Vulkan driver installed, or an old driver on your machine may be ...
Fudzilla

Vulkan limited to AMD GPU

It keeps using the word open source but… AMD seems to be having trouble understanding what open source means. It is saying that its forthcoming Vulkan driver will only work… It keeps using the word ...
Ars Technica

Installing Vulkan drivers woes

Not sure where to post this and if this doesn’t belong here please move. Few drivers back, not really sure when now, but could be in August, I made an attempt to resolve multiple instances of Vulkan ...
HotHardware

Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Brings Experimental Mesh Shader Support To Arc Alchemist

Mesh shaders are one of the more interesting recent developments in computer graphics technology, despite that many users are very likely not heard of them, or only heard the name. In essence, mesh ...

Minecraft: Java Edition To Replace OpenGL With Vulkan

Now, with Vulkan on the horizon, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally stepping into a modern graphics era. For a title that continues to thrive years after launch, the Vulkan upgrade signals that even ...