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…VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index was developed by Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team. Blumenkrantz notably is one of the lead developers of Mesa's Zink driver for generic OpenGL…
…Mike Blumenkrantz and Hans-Kristian Arntzen, both of Valve's Linux / Steam Play efforts, were involved in these additions as were NVIDIA and Collabora. Among the maintenance changes are some small enhancements…
…There is some speculation that it may be due to Valve's involvement that a workaround or compromise was achieved. Sent out today was the latest patches for HDMI FRL and FRL…
…Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team explained in a now-merged Mesa patch : "Latest addrlib supports SIMD (AVX2) and it's definitely fast enough to be used in production now…
…For HDMI 2.1 FRL Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup…
…With Linux 7.1-rc2 there is also more fixes for the new NTFS file-system driver and more improvements/fixes for older AMD GPUs thanks to Valve's Timur Kristóf. There…
…Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has been the one near single-handedly leading the effort to transition AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs over to using…
Following the release of Proton 11.0 Beta 1 from two weeks ago that updated against Wine 11.0, this heart to Valve's Steam Play is now out with a second…
Steam Controller Mapping Merged To SDL Library Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 16 May 2026 at 05:59 AM EDT. Add A Comment A few days ago the widely-used…
…The DVI fixes are part of the ongoing work by Timur Kristóf of Valve in improving old AMD graphics card support on Linux. See this pull request for the full list of…