<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>About a year ago the graphics-drivers ppa was created to host the latest graphics drivers for gamers, this was started due to the release of Shadow Of Mordor that required drivers that were newer than the ones canonical bundled with Ubuntu.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa">https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa</a></div><div><br></div><div>This has proved very useful to gamers since it was launched, however it only contains Nvidia proprietary drivers. We have been working with the Mesa community to help improve the Mesa drivers so more games can run on AMD and Intel hardware, and in the last year this has started to hit the tipping point and support has become more and more viable when using the very latest drivers.</div><div><br></div><div>The biggest issue we have is there is no way for a user to officially download and install the latest stable versions of Mesa. For example because the official Mesa 13.0.1 release isn’t available to install on Ubuntu, you need to compile it yourself.</div><div><br></div><div>There are two commonly used PPAs that have the latest mesa drivers but these are built from git latest around twice a week so the quality varies depending on the status of git when it was built. Unfortunately we can't officially recommend them as they often contain serious bugs that are still being fixed.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa">https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa</a> - git built with LLVM 4.0 (git)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers/">https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers/</a> - git built using LLVM 3.9</div><div><br></div><div>I’d like to suggest that official Mesa releases are also added to the graphics-drivers PPA using the release information on the <a href="http://mesa.org">mesa.org</a> website:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes.html">http://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Almost every Feral title would benefit from running on the latest version of the Mesa drivers as they bring performance, stability and much needed features. Many titles simply cannot run without the latest drivers. This is also true for most other games from other developers as well.</div><div><br></div><div>This should really help adoption of the newer graphics drivers on Mesa which should help improve the experience AMD and Intel users have when using Ubuntu as they will have much easier access to the latest drivers.</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to seeing what the community thinks of this suggestion.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Edwin</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Edwin Smith<br>Head Of Production</div><div class="gmail_signature">Feral Interactive Limited<br><br></div>
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