The supported configuration for OpenGL support in Tech Preview 4 is Server 2016 host running Server 2016 as a guest VM. It is not available when remoting to a physical machine or in RDSH configurations. RemoteFX vGPU with OpenGL support is enabled in VDI configurations as either pooled or personal desktops.
For Tech Preview 4 we invite you to experience some of these improvements.
Since 2012r2 the team has been working hard addressing some of the key features that have been requested. RemoteFX vGPU is constantly evolving and Server 2016 is no exception. The below work is now available for experimentation! Mesa 18.3 development remains in full swing with a lot of interesting work already on the master branch.Note, there was a blocking issue in Tech Preview 3, this issue has been fixed in the Tech Preview 4 release. To round out a busy year for Mesa, the 18.3 release will likely come around the end of November or early December. Mesa 18.2.0 is available for download from.
#UPDATE OPENGL 4.4 UPDATE#
See my Mesa 18.2 feature overview to learn even more about the many changes found in this update thanks to Intel, AMD, Valve, Broadcom, Red Hat, and many other contributors - including plenty of independent contributors.
#UPDATE OPENGL 4.4 DRIVER#
On the Intel driver front are more NIR optimizations, the march is still on towards OpenGL 4.6 support with SPIR-V ingestion, various new Vulkan driver extensions for ANV, and other optimizations as well as new hardware support. Outside of the Radeon scope, this quarterly Mesa release brings OpenGL 4.3 support to the VirGL driver for OpenGL acceleration in VirtIO-enabled KVM guests, Vulkan display extensions for improving the SteamVR Linux support, the Broadcom V3D driver is now enabled by default, the Mesa shader cache supports caching RadeonSI compute shaders, various NIR optimizations, some OpenGL extension additions for Nouveau NVC0, and various other work.
On the Radeon front is support for the yet-to-be-released Vega 20 GPU, ASTC texture compression support for RadeonSI, various new RADV Vulkan driver extensions, OpenGL 4.4 compatibility profile support for RadeonSI that notably helps out many Wine/SteamPlay titles, OpenGL ES 3.2 support for RadeonSI too, faster LLVM shader compilation in RADV, Radeon EQAA anti-aliasing, and minor performance improvements. Mesa 18.2 brings a ton of new features with some of the most notable ones improving the RadeonSI OpenGL and RADV Vulkan driver support.
#UPDATE OPENGL 4.4 DRIVERS#
Following a few delays that pushed back its release date from August to ultimately today, Mesa 18.2 is out as this third-quarter 2018 update to the Mesa3D graphics driver stack most commonly associated with the Linux desktop's open-source Vulkan/OpenGL drivers for Intel, Radeon, and Nouveau (as well as many smaller drivers).