Valve tells Ars its “trying to unblock” limits caused by open source driver issues.

Valve tells Ars its “trying to unblock” limits caused by open source driver issues.

  • sawdustprophet@midwest.socialEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Is it licensing fees? I bet it is.

    From the article:

    the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1. That means the open source AMD drivers used by SteamOS can’t fully implement certain features that are specific to the updated output standard.