Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 29 July 2026 at 06:35 AM EDT. 2 Comments Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows. Experimental work is underway for porting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver to Windows as this open-source driver implementation used by Linux gamers and a large part to the success of the AMD-powered Steam Deck and now Steam Machine.
- ▪Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 29 July 2026 at 06:35 AM EDT.
- ▪2 Comments Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows.
- ▪Experimental work is underway for porting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver to Windows as this open-source driver implementation used by Linux gamers and a large part to the success of the AMD-powered Steam Deck and now Steam Machine.
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Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 29 July 2026 at 06:35 AM EDT. 2 Comments Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows. Experimental work is underway for porting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver to Windows as this open-source driver implementation used by Linux gamers and a large part to the success of the AMD-powered Steam Deck and now Steam Machine. Valve funds multiple developers working on the open-source RADV Vulkan driver and other portions of the Linux graphics stack. Now they are sponsoring Collabora developers in trying to make RADV viable on Microsoft Windows.
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