AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2

With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popular GPUs. As it pertains to the newest AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics processors, the most exciting area with Mesa …
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Try having a shotgun for an arm in the demo for Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/try-…

#FPS #PCGaming #Gaming #GZDoom

Try having a shotgun for an arm in the demo for Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation

Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation is an upcoming retro-styled completely over the top FPS, it looks awesome and a demo is now live.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

SuperWEIRD is a co-op mixture of automation, tower defense and adventuring gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/supe…

#SuperWEIRD #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming

SuperWEIRD is a co-op mixture of automation, tower defense and adventuring

SuperWEIRD is the next planned game from developers Luden.io, merging together a few different genres into something thoroughly odd.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Smarter Cache Flushing For AMD SEV KVM Guest VMs Expected For Linux 6.17

Going back several months have been patches out of Google to optimize AMD cache flushing for KVM-based Linux guest virtual machines when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). As anticipated, that AMD SEV cache flushing optimization work looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...
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Improved Debugging Support For AMDGPU Driver Expected For Linux 6.17

Sent out on Thursday along with Intel's huge Xe driver pull request with new features was the drm-misc-next material for the week. Notable with the drm-misc-next code were actually a set of AMDGPU driver patches to enhance the debugging with the information exposed via the DebugFS interface...
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Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1 gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/loss…

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Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1

The dev of the popular Lossless Scaling app has been helping the lsfg-vk project that brings Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation to Linux to get it upgraded.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support

OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notable new extension in the works: cross-vendor mesh shader support with the pending GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. Beginning today the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D upstreaming process has begun for introducing mesh shader support for this Radeon OpenGL dr…
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New Guide: How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/…

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How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft

Want to get Battle.net on your Linux system like SteamOS and Steam Deck? Here's a guide giving you the options to play World of Warcraft and Starcraft.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database

QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-series database...
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GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes

For those seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022...
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Craft-and-thrive adventure Squirreled Away tweaks the graphics for Steam Deck players gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/craf…

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Craft-and-thrive adventure Squirreled Away tweaks the graphics for Steam Deck players

Squirreled Away is a cute casual craft-and-thrive adventure that you can play solo or with friends, and now it should work great out of the box on Steam Deck.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Rotate and unfold the world in the wonderful 3D platformer PaperKlay - now Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/rota…

#PaperKlay #IndieGames #SteamDeck #SteamOS

Rotate and unfold the world in the wonderful 3D platformer PaperKlay - now Steam Deck Verified

Now Steam Deck Verified / SteamOS Compatible! PaperKlay is a gorgeous 3D platformer collect-a-thon with a world made of paper, cardboard and clay.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Stress-testing app OCCT switches to Vulkan by default dropping DirectX gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stre…

#OCCT #Linux #Vulkan #Gaming #PCGaming

Stress-testing app OCCT switches to Vulkan by default dropping DirectX

The popular stress-testing app OCCT recently landed on Steam, and the first major update here swaps DirectX for Vulkan by default.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Unrailed! gets fixed for Steam Deck and an update for controllers on Linux / macOS gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/unra…

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Unrailed! gets fixed for Steam Deck and an update for controllers on Linux / macOS

Unrailed! from Indoor Astronaut is a great co-op multiplayer game that's good fun with friends, and now works properly on Steam Deck / Linux again.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Multiple games from Slitherine are free to keep for a limited time like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/mult…

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Multiple games from Slitherine are free to keep for a limited time like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

If you're totally broke you can claim some free games to keep on Steam right now, thanks to game publisher Slitherine Ltd.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

In honor of the new James Gunn "Superman" movie, here's the time the Man of Steel declared his own "war on cars." From Action Comics #12 (1939).

Check out our new book, "Life After Cars" for the full story.

Available for preorder wherever you purchase books.

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Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL

Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern "Xe" kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. New hardware support, SR-IOV preparations for Battlemage, other Intel Battlemage work, and also preparations for the upcoming multi-device support...
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NovaCustom Launching An Intel Meteor Lake NUC Box Running On Dasharo/Coreboot

For those interested in a small form factor PC running on the open-source Coreboot firmware, Netherlands-based vendor NovaCustom is launching an Intel Meteor Lake powered NUC box running on the Dasharo downstream of Coreboot...
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OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions

The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API...
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Screaming Into The Void - Episode 1.

AHHHHH or whatever.

#Podcast

Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster

Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA "NAK" compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction scheduling. This real instruction scheduling support for GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" graphics processors can provide some significant performance benefits in select workloads...
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Linux users can install Mozilla VPN client from Flathub. The open source app was previously only available to install on Ubuntu-based distributions via the Mozilla APT repo.

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#Mozilla #flathub #linux

Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on Flathub

The Mozilla VPN Client can now be installed on Linux distributions from Flathub, a change that will allow more users to access the paid VPN service.

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

Linux 6.15.6, 6.12.37 LTS & Other Stable Kernels Deliver TSA Mitigations

Greg Kroah-Hartman just released the Linux 6.15.6 point release as well as the Linux 6.12.37 LTS kernel and new point releases in prior-year Long Term Support kernel versions. The main headline of today's stable kernel releases are picking up the mitigations for the Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) mitigations that were disclosed this week for AMD processors...
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