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The much anticipated Signed Looking Glass IDD driver is now available to download from the Looking Glass website (Bleeding edge builds, no tagged release yet).

https://looking-glass.io/downloads

For those that are unaware, this replaces the LG Host application and moves the capture and transport into the GPUs swap chain path.

Note, while it's stable and seeing daily usage, there is still some polish to come.

Headline Features:

• No more monitor or dummy plug required
• Arbitrary resolution and refresh rate support, including auto guest resolution change to match the LG client window size.
• Full HDR support (A HDR capable Wayland compositor is required, we recommend KDE/Plasma)
• Works without a passthrough GPU in software mode (amazingly well too)
• Lower latency

The LG client has seen a lot of improvements also such as:

• HDR support
• Much tighter audio synchronisation over spice
• Lower latency/jitter, etc.
• Supports MPV style GLSL shaders (ie: https://github.com/bloc97/anime4k)
• Many bug fixes

As always please note that this software is developed in free time, donations to fund this work are greatly appreciated. Now that we are building a signed driver we need to maintain a code signing cert and the costs associated with it, your funding helps cover this also.