AMD Radeon Linux Gamers Get Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Improves in Mesa 17.1.3 | Linux Today

AMD Radeon Linux Gamers Get Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Improves in Mesa 17.1.3

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Marius Nestor
Jun 19, 2017

If you’re a Linux gamer using AMD Radeon or Intel graphics cards, then you must have the latest Mesa 3D Graphics Library installed on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution, and today’s Mesa 17.1.3 point release is the most advanced one adding multiple improvements across several of the included open-source drivers. AMD Radeon gamers will be happy to learn that Mesa 17.1.3 improves the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver with a bunch of patches that fix various issues, among which we can mention the ability of the driver to correctly advertise AMD Radeon APU devices as integrated. The RadeonSI driver also saw minor bug fixes.

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Marius Nestor

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