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"Shiva" Being Developed For Mesa Vulkan Drivers, Akin To Gallium3D www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Sh... #Mesa #Vulkan #XDC2026

phoronix.com

"Shiva" Being Developed For Mesa Vulkan Drivers, Akin To Gallium3D

Shiva is entering development for Mesa Vulkan drivers as a new framework akin to Gallium3D but for Vulkan drivers rather than OpenGL

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 13h

D7VK version 2.3 released and mature enough to now be in maintenance mode #Proton #Wine #OpenSource #Vulkan #RetroGaming #D7VK

gamingonlinux.com

D7VK version 2.3 released and mature enough to now be in maintenance mode

D7VK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7, 6, 5 and 3 for use with Wine / Proton, and with version 2.3 out now it's entering maintenance mode.

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Fronkon Games @fronkongames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Game camera using SDL3 and Vulkan #gamedev #indiedev #vulkan #gamedevelopment

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First-Person Game Camera with SDL3 and Vulkan

In this lesson, we implement a full First-Person Shooter (FPS) came...

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Collabora @collabora.com · 23/09/2026

XDC returns to Toronto September 28–30! 🇨🇦 As a Gold Sponsor, we’ll be there with six talks and one workshop covering Vulkan, open source GPU drivers, and more. Join us! col.la/xdc2026 #XDC2026 #OpenSource #Vulkan #LinuxGraphics

collabora.com

Panfrost, Kraid, Tyr, and more at XDC 2026

Join us at XDC 2026, where our graphics team is presenting six talks and a workshop!

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Breathing Retro @breathing-retro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Autorun homebrew — Wine running natively on Nintendo Switch 1’s operating system Horizon #emulation #emudev #retrogaming #vulkan #graphicsprogramming #gamedev #programming #reverseengineering

m.youtube.com

AUTORUN TEST DEAD SPACE NINTENDO SWITCH V1

YouTube video by Wilmar G.C

@Auster.thebrainbin.org.ap.brid.gy@Auster.thebrainbin.org.ap.brid.gy

"Autorun", a homebrew for running Windows games on the Switch, released https://gbatemp.net/threads/autorun-play-windows-pc-games-on-your-nintendo-switch.684587/ It makes use Wine and Box64, and according to the thread, a few games are playable from tests. #Switch #consolemods #Wine #Box64

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Fronkon Games @fronkongames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The team moved from OpenGL to Vulkan in their development project. #gamedevelopment #vulkan #opengl #indiedev #gamedev

alexandrelamure.github.io

From OpenGL to Vulkan | Alexandre Lamure

Porting a small OpenGL engine to Vulkan — first principles.

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 15/09/2026

Khronos Group opens EU Entity to support European Projects with open standards #OpenSource #OpenStandards #Vulkan #OpenGL #KhronosGroup

gamingonlinux.com

Khronos Group opens EU Entity to support European Projects with open standards

Khronos Group, who oversee various open standards like Vulkan and OpenGL, have formally opened up a Brussels-based European entity.

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Fronkon Games @fronkongames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Minimal graphics API, built on top of latest Vulkan extensions. As close as possibly to Sebastian Aaltonen's "No Graphics API" blog post #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #vulkan

github.com

GitHub - sebbbi/NoGraphicsAPI: Minimal graphics API. Built on top of latest Vulkan extensions. As close as possibly to my "No Graphics API" blog post and the SIGGRAPH talk.

Minimal graphics API. Built on top of latest Vulkan extensions. As close as possibly to my "No Graphics API" blog post and the SIGGRAPH talk. - sebbbi/NoGraphicsAPI

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C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

what pretraining looks like #CATCHAT is using a stat-of-the-art GRU-L3-V3a #LLM written with #LLVM #CPP and #Vulkan #compute #shaders . no python, training on our first #dataset of dialogue 397M dialogue turns tokens and 78.9m parameters as for our phase0 #pretraining running on 1x L40S by #NVIDIA

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Collabora @collabora.com · 04/09/2026

XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-202... #XDC2026 #Vulkan

phoronix.com

XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More

The annual X.Org Developer's Conference 'XDC 2026' is happening later this month in Toronto

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Fronkon Games @fronkongames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Direct3D 8/9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 3.1 brings improvements for game launchers, older Frostbite engine and more #dxvk #indiedev #gamedev #gamedevelopment #vulkan

gamingonlinux.com

Direct3D 8/9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 3.1 brings improvements for game launchers, olde

DXVK 3.1 is out now bringing more impressive upgrades for the Direct3D 8/9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer that powers Valve's Proton.

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Fronkon Games @fronkongames.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Workarounds for issues with mesh shaders + Vulkan + HLSL #gamedevelopment #vulkan #hlsl #meshshader #indiedev #gamedev

anki3d.org

Workarounds for issues with mesh shaders + Vulkan + HLSL

TL;DR: If using per-primitive in/out in mesh shaders in Vulkan and in HLSL/DXC you need to manually decorate variables and struct members using SPIR-V intrinsics. See how at the bo

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 24/08/2026

DXVK-Sarek 1.13.0 is a big release for older GPUs to play modern games on Linux #OpenSource #Proton #Vulkan #Wine #Linux #DXVK

gamingonlinux.com

DXVK-Sarek 1.13.0 is a big release for older GPUs to play modern games on Linux

DXVK-Sarek 1.13.0 has been released to bring more enhancements for gamers with older GPUs that don't support later Vulkan versions to keep on gaming on Linux.

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Collabora @collabora.com · 06/08/2026

Tyr is moving beyond MCU firmware boot and closer to real Vulkan workloads on Mali CSF GPUs. The implementation now builds out the group, queue, VM, submission, and completion paths needed to make GPU execution possible in the Rust-based driver: col.la/tyrcsf #Tyr #Rustlang #GPU #Vulkan

collabora.com

Building Tyr in Rust: CSF architecture and booting the MCU

How Tyr maps Vulkan submissions onto Mali CSF groups, queues, firmware interfaces, and GPU execution.

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Fronkon Games @fronkongames.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Generating Mipmaps // Vulkan For Beginners #31 #vulkan #indiedev #gamedevelopment #gamedev

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Generating Mipmaps // Vulkan For Beginners #31

In this video we learn how to create a mipmap chain using a series ...

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