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Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan
Just like Valve said to us they would do so, Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Linux using the Vulkan graphics API.
Category: Vulkan
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 440.66.14 released
NVIDIA have released a brand new Vulkan Beta Driver for Linux which pulls in another Ray Tracing extension and some bug fixes.
Unreal Engine 4.25 is up with tons of Linux improvements and Vulkan API fixes
While the Epic Games Store may not support Linux, at least Unreal Engine does and it appears to have been given quite a lot of attention in the Unreal Engine 4.25 release that went out officially today.
Vulkan 1.2.140 spec out and NVIDIA has a new Vulkan Beta Driver up with new extension support
Two bits of Vulkan related news to share today. Recently the Vulkan specification was bumped again with new extension and today a new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver went up.
Godot Engine has more impressive progress towards Vulkan API support
Godot Engine is free, open source, cross-platform in both editor and exports and the next major update will bring in Vulkan API support and progress sounds great.
Slick roguelike 'Jupiter Hell' has a huge update out with Master Traits, new weapons and more
It's a great day to be a roguelike fan, as the impressive Jupiter Hell (which uses Vulkan!) has a brand new release out and it continues to be stupidly fun.
NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta Driver out with some important Linux fixes
Last week NVIDIA released a new Vulkan Beta Driver which came with some issues, a new build has gone out today fixing some of the most pressing.
It appears that Valve are preparing Half-Life: Alyx for Linux
Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's return to the Half-Life franchise in VR-only form released for Windows last month and it appears they're now preparing a Linux version.
Direct 3D to Vulkan layer 'DXVK' 1.6.1 release out with plenty of bug fixes
DXVK when paired up with Wine (and integrated in Steam Play Proton) translates Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan enabling better performance on Linux for a lot of Windows games. Today, a brand new release went up.
NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta driver out - further polishing Ray Tracing support
Today NVIDIA put out a brand new Vulkan Beta driver, as they continue to expand the capabilities of Vulkan Ray Tracing with a bunch of fixes.
X-Plane 11.50 has a first Beta with Vulkan API support which should improve performance
X-Plane 11 is a very highly rated flight simulation game and Laminar Research have been working on advancing the graphics side of it, with a first Beta out for the next version with Vulkan support.
Another new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver expands Ray Tracing support on Linux
The second update in the space of a week, NVIDIA just today put out another NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver which further expands the Ray Tracing capabilities on Linux.
NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta Driver out for Linux - helping DOOM Eternal on Steam Play
NVIDIA continue to fix up and improve their Linux drivers, with a brand new Vulkan Beta Driver available today.
DXVK the D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer 1.6 update out
DXVK, the almighty translation layer that takes D3D 9/10/11 and spits out Vulkan, that paired up with Wine allows many Windows-only games to perform will on Linux has a new update out.
Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release
Today, Valve replied to our message asking about the situation with Half-Life: Alyx and Linux support and we got our answer.
Ray Tracing comes to the Vulkan API officially with new extensions - new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta out
The Khronos Group has today announced that the cross-platform Vulkan graphics API now has official Ray Tracing support with their new provisional extensions.
vkBasalt the Vulkan post processing layer for Linux has a new release up
Need to add some fancy effects to your Linux games? vkBasalt can help with that and a brand new release is now up.
MangoHud, the excellent Linux overlay layer adds OpenGL support in addition to Vulkan
A huge update for the Linux overlay layer, MangoHud, as it can now work with OpenGL games in addition to Vulkan making it many times more useful and awesome.
GOverlay - a new open source Linux app for managing overlays like MangoHud
With the Vulkan API making the creation of Linux gaming overlays like MangoHud easier, having a way to manage them without editing a configuration file would be sweet - enter GOverlay.
Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer 'DXVK' version 1.5.5 is out with lots of bug fixes
Developer Philip Rebohle today announced the release of DXVK 1.5.5, bringing with it plenty of bug fixes for this impressive Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer.
- Crysis Remastered Trilogy gets a GOG release with the original Crysis now in the GOG Preservation Program
- Fan-made Unreal remake Unreal Redux shows off a fancy new trailer
- Free Lives (Terra Nil, Broforce) released a demo for Side Effects that's Buckshot Roulette meets Big Pharma
- Wine 10.16 released with fast synchronization support using NTSync
- Unity devs are scrambling to update their games due to a recent security issue
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