When will there be official support for the battlemage GPUs? Unraid 7.1.0 beta1 supports battlemage and Plex detects it in the transcoder menu. It just can’t/won’t use it.

Battlemage Support

poiromaniax March 12, 2026, 7:30pm 283

Looks like the time has come

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