Croteam are beating The Talos Principle with a hammer to bring out another stable version and a beta, both have even more Vulkan goodies.

Quite recently there have been quite a few advancements on the open source side of GPU drivers so I figured it would be the perfect time to talk about these changes and run some updated benchmarks.

Croteam sure are busy, not only did they confirm The Talos Principle 2 is happening, but it seems I missed the fact that Serious Sam 4 was also confirmed to be in development right now.

Here is a look back at the 15 most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for the past week, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux & SteamOS Gaming!

While I haven't completed The Talos Principle, I have played it and I do think it's a very well presented puzzle game. It seems it has been a hit, so The Talos Principle 2 has now been confirmed.

Welcome to another episode of the GOL Podcast! Kallestofeles was not able to join on this recording so this episode Cheese, Kieron (madmachinations), and Matt (darkone778) talk about their experience playing Left 4 Dead 2. We also discuss the Linux gaming news from game releases to people showing their gaming rigs.

The newest game from the developer of English Country Tune is now out. After a few days of playing and rolling dozens of sausages, I’ve got a few thoughts to share about this game and its puzzles.

Humble have done a good one this time! The Humble Devolver Bundle has some pretty decent Linux games going for cheap.

Valve just recently published a new Steam beta, and they have fixed up the Steam Overlay rendering issue that was causing it to bring down Vulkan performance. I've run some fresh tests on my Nvidia 980ti to show you the difference now with it on vs before.

Well, not long after someone reported the issue to Valve from my benchmarks, the performance penalty of using Vulkan with the Steam Overlay seems to be mostly fixed.

I decided to take a look at this Vulkan nonsense with The Talos Principle, since I hadn't actually tried it yet myself. Here are some benchmarks done on my 980ti. I will look to do some on my 970 if people want to see them too.

The Talos Principle developers have just released build 260210, the main feature for us is the improvements to their Vulkan rendering system. Also, the stable version now includes Vulkan as standard.

Valve have pushed out SteamOS 2.67 beta with some minor but useful changes to the compositor, pulseaudio and boot-up. It also fixes as an issue with The Talos Principle.

Looks like Vulkan support is coming to a Wine development version near you soon, as the latest Wine Staging 1.9.6 build has a conforment Vulkan implementation. It also disables CSMT as it's becoming incompatible.

Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a long time Linux game porter is working on getting the Serious Engine 1 source code release working on Linux, with official blessing.

Here's something interesting for the fans of libre software. Croteam, the developers behind the Serious Sam games and The Talos Principle, have opened up the source code for Serious Engine v. 1.10 under the GPLv2 license.

For those not keeping track: SteamOS was recently updated to include the changes from the recent 2.64 beta and it brings Vulkan for Nvidia amongst other changes.

It sounds like Dota 2 with Vulkan isn't far off, as an Intel developer working on mesa has had access to it.

Heads up Vulkan fans, The Talos Principle beta has been updated to include the Vulkan build for Linux gamers to test out.

SteamOS Brewmaster update 2.63 has been pushed to brewmaster_beta, if you are opted into the beta on SteamOS you will get an updated Nvidia driver featuring Vulkan support.