Valve Contractor Just Made Gaming On 8 GB GPUs Viable Again
…Around the world, people tell the tale of a particularly fierce group of Linux gamers: Those who dare attempt to play games with only 8 gigabytes of VRAM, or even less. Truly…
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Valve Quietly Rebased Proton on Wine 11, and Linux Gaming Just Got Windows-Level Frame Pacing
…support for NTSync, which brings Windows NT synchronization behavior into the Linux kernel. This will reduce CPU overhead and should also improveframe-time consistency in many games, especially modern DirectX titles that…
AMD Zen 6 "Low Power" Core To Match Or Exceed Zen 5, As It Aims To Be A Collage of Different Zen Architectures Spanning Zen 2 To Zen 6
…Related Story AMD Quietly Seeds Zen 6 Client Support into Linux, Tipping Olympic Ridge Desktops and Medusa Mobile Ryzen Chips Based on recent entries in the Linux Kernel Patch, it looks like…
NVIDIA Prepares For Next-Gen GPUs; Begins Nova Driver Transition From Boot0 To Boot42
…NVIDIA Nova Kernel Graphics Driver Patches Confirm Next-Gen GPUs Will Rely Solely on Boot42 as Boot0 Gets Phased Out NVIDIA usually handles architecture identification through registers such as Boot0, which has…
Intel Core Ultra 7 155H CPU Fails Miserably Against The AMD Ryzen 7 7840U In Linux Benchmarks
…the Core Ultra 7 155H with these tests on Ubuntu 23.10 with the Linux 6.7 kernel at each system's defaults. The Core Ultra 7 155H also had a tendency…
Intel Nova Lake NPU6 Expected To Deliver 74 TOPS Of AI Performance
…Intel Panther Lake will transition to NPU5 while Nova Lake will utilize NPU6, a 6th-gen NPU (Neural Processing Unit), which was seen in a Linux Kernel patch. According to the leaker…
Sony's PlayStation 6 Handheld Gains Credibility, As AMD Zen 6 Leak Lines Up With Its Rumored Specs
…As reported by Guru3D , a recent Linux kernel patch suggests that the AMD Zen 6 architecture will feature a third CPU core type: a low-power core designed to enhance efficiency in…
How To Diagnose and Fix High DPC Latency in Windows
…Linux can be tuned much more aggressively for real-time behavior, especially with real-time kernels, threaded interrupts, CPU isolation, and careful interrupt request (IRQ) affinity tuning. That makes Linux very attractive…
Intel Jabs AMD With New Panther Lake Chips, Claiming Team Red Is Selling ‘Ancient Silicon’ in the Handheld Market
…Related Story Linux 7.1 Kernel Starts Enabling Intel FRED, Expands AMD GPU Defaults, And Dropping Of Intel 486 CPU Support But Neelalojanan also had some blunt words regarding AMD in the…
Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs Support Added To Linux Graphics Driver, Compatible With 400 & 500 Series Chipsets
…A total of 23 patches were included in the i915 Linux Kernel driver with over 700 lines of code. As of now, there are a total of 6 six PCI IDs for…