That some titles perform better, from an FPS number perspective, when using DXVK is clear, which has lead to some people asking why this is the case. It's the why that I'd like to discuss here; why DXVK is a winner in some cases, why native wins in others, and some of the drawbacks of each approach.
After the debacle over Unity and Improbable's SpatialOS, it seems Unity has made some solid steps after a lot of feedback on their Terms of Service.
News in the last week, heck, in the last few weeks and months have the potential to shake up the games industry significantly. It certainly may have huge repercussions for Linux gaming. It’s also been a little hard to follow sometimes, so I decided to explain many of the developments of the past few months and put them within an easy-to-understand context.
Valve as expected have put up the Steam Autumn Sale for 2018 and it comes rammed full of some epic Linux gaming deals.
Polygod, the difficult FPS from Krafted Games is officially leaving Early Access on August 17th and it sure does look fun.
Croteam, developer of the Serious Sam series and The Talos Principle have stuck around for 25 years and so they're celebrating with a big sale.
With news doing the rounds about the latest update to macOS, it turns out they're finally admitting they're doing nothing with their support of OpenGL and it's to be deprecated.
It's Wednesday, it's time to take a look at what's on sale for Linux gamers right now. There's a lot of choice this time!
It seems every week there's a new deal going on you don't want to miss! Right now Humble Store is offering free copies of Satellite Reign and other stores also have sales on.
Another week, another sale giving you a chance to pick up some Linux games you've been missing out on.
Following a successful crowdfunding campaign several years ago, this 2d metroidvania has grown and matured as a project. I had a chance to play a closed beta and things look promising.
It seems Croteam will be doing a talk at GDC this year and it sounds like it's going to be quite interesting, with it being centred around getting games to perform smoothly. The talk will be presented by the Croteam CTO, Alen Ladavac.
Croteam are continuing to be one of my favourite developers, as The Talos Principle has been patched with some goodies.
A bit of Croteam news to start the day with and there's multiple interesting items to go over in regards to their games.
With recent commits that fix bugs and allow newer Vega cards to pass tests for official conformance, development for radv continues apace. It’s a good time to look back and talk about just how far the driver has come in such a short time.
For those of you with a fancy HTC Vive, you might want to check out The Talos Principle VR which launched with Linux support.
Croteam announced The Talos Principle VR and the good news is that it seems it will support Linux too.
More than an indie Portal-like, SolarGun offers up some interesting puzzles and overall it seems like a pretty decent puzzler.
Inspired by the recent release of Dawn of War 3, I decided to try out the experimental GCN 1.0 support in the new AMDGPU kernel driver and share my experiences.
Later than usual, but here's a weekly look at some decent Linux gaming deals going on right now. Hand-picked deals of what I think you might like.