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Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows

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Valve is funding Collabora's experimental effort to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows. The team has already demonstrated Counter-Strike 2 running with RADV, but a stable interface or compatibility shim will be needed to handle undocumented driver changes. Phoronix reports...
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Valve is now funding Collabora's efforts in developing its open-source RADV Vulkan driver for Windows. This port is already proving successful in Counter-Strike 2. [Read more] A small gesture for Frandroid? Subscribe to Frandroid on Google so you don't miss any of our articles.

Valve is funding a project to carry RADV, the Vulkan open source driver of Mesa, under Windows. The work is led by Collabora, a long-time partner of Valve on several software blocks related to video game...

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phoronix.com broke the news on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
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