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Mesa

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The open source graphics implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan among other graphics APIs for Linux. Intel, AMD and Nvidia all have driver support built into the Linux Kernel but Nvidia's Mesa driver is not recommended for gaming.

Much better OpenGL performance on AMD graphics than on Windows.

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Linux
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Installation

On many distributions the Mesa package will already be installed, if you are performing a minimal install from scratch (such as Debian or Arch Linux) you will have to install the mesa package, if you are playing games that have a 32-bit binary then enable multilib repositories in your package manager's configuration file and install the mesa:i386 or lib32-mesa packages.

In addition install your graphics vendors Vulkan drivers as well as the 32-bit packages.

Please check what the mesa packages are named for the distribution you have installed.

Simple Modifications

Improving OpenGL Performance

Run mesa_glthread=true /path/to/game if the game uses OpenGL as it's graphics API

For Steam games you select the game, right click it to access Properties and put mesa_glthread=true in the launch options.
For a complete list of games that automatically have this enabled, check Mesa's configuration file.

Control Panel

There is no GUI graphics control panel by default, users must install one themselves.