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

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Collabora’s Emil Velikov announced today the release and immediate availability of the third maintenance update to the Mesa 17.1 stable series of the open-source graphics stack for GNU/Linux operating systems.

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.

On the other hand, Intel gamers should know that Mesa 17.1.3 improves HiZ handling for the Intel i965 OpenGL graphics driver. Small bug fixes were… (read more)

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