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Returnal is just rough on Steam Deck but great on Desktop Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Returnal is now on Steam so naturally I gave this previously PlayStation exclusive a run on Steam Deck. It's quite sad though.

FSR 2.1 is a game-changer for Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Cyberpunk 2077 from CD PROJEKT RED recently had a big 1.61 patch out, and with it came support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.1.

Valve's Steam Deck dev kit got the early benchmark treatment

By Liam Dawe,
Shared on a Chinese news website, one lucky recipient of the Steam Deck developer kit decided to show off some benchmarks although they probably weren't supposed to.

Advanced cross-platform benchmarking tool 'Basemark GPU' has a new build out

By Liam Dawe,
Back in 2018 Basemark announced and released Basemark GPU, their advanced cross-platform benchmarking tool. Last week, they release a huge update to it.

The Linux port of Shadow of Mordor from Feral Interactive has gained a Vulkan Beta, a massive difference

By Liam Dawe,
This is quite a surprise! Early yesterday we were notified that Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, which Feral Interactive ported to Linux in 2015 has gained a Vulkan Beta.

While not on Linux officially, Far Cry New Dawn seems to work amazingly well on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
A recent benchmark video is currently doing the rounds showing off Far Cry New Dawn from Ubisoft, despite it not supporting Linux thanks to Wine, DXVK and Steam Play it seems to run beautifully.

Need a new stresstest for your Linux PC? Geekbench 5 is out adding Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe,
You all love benchmarks right? Hearing the fans on your PC spin up to keep everything inside nice and cool while you start to sweat. Geekbench 5 has been officially released this month.

A three-way look at Rocket League on Linux, with D9VK versus Linux Native

By Liam Dawe,
After chatting on Twitter with a fellow Rocket League enthusiast about the performance of the game, I decided to take a look.

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is out and it comes with same-day Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS, possibly one of the biggest Total War games yet is officially out. Developed by Creative Assembly and published by SEGA, it was ported by Feral Interactive and they managed to get Linux support in right away.

UNIGINE recently updated the Superposition benchmark tool with free VR support, Linux VR supported

By Liam Dawe,
UNIGINE announced earlier this month an update to their UNIGINE 2 Engine powered Superposition benchmark tool, with new features in the free version.

Steam Play versus Linux Version, a little performance comparison and more thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Now that Steam has the ability officially to override a Linux game and run it through Steam Play instead, let's take a quick look at some differences in performance.

An enhanced version of the fan-made Half-Life 2: Episode 3 'Project Borealis' performance test is out

By Liam Dawe,
Project Borealis, the fan-made Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is still continuing along, with the release of a second performance to test so we can stress-test their work.

Project Borealis, the fan-game aiming to make a 3rd Half-Life 2 episode now has a Performance Test for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Project Borealis, a fan-game that aims to create the long awaited 3rd episode for Half-Life 2 based on Marc Laidlaw’s Epistle 3 has put out a Performance Test for Linux gamers.

Basemark GPU is a new benchmark tool that supports Linux and many different APIs

By Liam Dawe,
A few days ago, Basemark officially announced and have now released Basemark GPU, their latest benchmarking tool and it has Linux support.

War Thunder currently has a Vulkan renderer under development that you can try out

By BTRE,
The free-to-play vehicular combat MMO has shown hints that Vulkan support has a work in progress for some time now. It’s still not officially supported but, with some tinkering, you can see how it’s coming along for yourself.

Rise of the Tomb Raider tested on AMD RX 580

By Samsai,
To go along with Liam’s benchmarks of the game on his Nvidia GPU, I decided to also run some tests on my RX 580 to give you a picture of the AMD performance of the Rise of the Tomb Raider port. So, let’s go!

The Talos Principle updated with Vulkan improvements, OpenGL fixes and more, plus some benchmarks

By Liam Dawe,
Croteam are continuing to be one of my favourite developers, as The Talos Principle has been patched with some goodies.

Testing F1 2017 Linux port on AMD GPUs

By Samsai,
You have likely read Liam’s thoughts and port review of F1 2017. I am going to complement his work by bringing you some numbers from the AMD side of things with my RX 580 and R7 370. So, hold onto your hats for we are benchmarking now!

F1 2017 released for Linux as Feral Interactive’s first Vulkan-only title, here’s a port report

By Liam Dawe,
Welcome back to Formula 1! Feral Interactive have given Linux gaming another great title, with the release of F1 2017 today.

Shadow of Mordor on AMD Ryzen CPU suffers from a performance hit due to non-optimal thread scheduling

By ghem,
While doing some comparative benchmarks between my RX 470 and GTX 1060 on a Ryzen 1700 CPU and an i7-2700k CPU, I encountered odd behaviour with Shadow of Mordor.
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