Article category: Vulkan - page 16

The Khronos Group has launched a unified samples repository for Vulkan learning

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Today, The Khronos Group announced their newest Vulkan initiative with the Unified Samples Repository. A new place to find what they say are high-quality Vulkan code samples reviewed by their team.

D9VK 0.30 'Froglet' is blowing out the cobwebs ready for Halloween

By Liam Dawe, 28 Oct 2019

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Joshua Ashton has pushed out a large update to D9VK, the DXVK-based layer that translates Direct3D9 to Vulkan for use with Wine.

Indie horror game Walls Closing In now has Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Oct 2019

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Need something to scare you silly this Halloween? The indie survival horror Walls Closing In has Linux support.

D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan layer DXVK version 1.4.4 is out

By Liam Dawe, 28 Oct 2019

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One missed from the weekend, developer Philip Rebohle released a fresh update to the Vulkan layer DXVK with version 1.4.4.

NVIDIA have released a new Vulkan Beta Driver 435.27.02

By Liam Dawe, 25 Oct 2019

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NVIDIA continue pushing out new builds to their special Vulkan Beta Driver, a staging area to test out new features.

vkBasalt, an open source Vulkan post processing layer for Contrast Adaptive Sharpening

By Liam Dawe, 21 Oct 2019

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This is an interesting open source project! vkBasalt is a new Vulkan post processing layer that currently supports Contrast Adaptive Sharpening.

DXVK 1.4.3 released helping games with a large number of different shaders

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2019

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No doubt some of our readers will be in for a busy weekend testing, with another release of DXVK now officially available.

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

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2019

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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.

Vulkan support is not far away now for the flight sim X-Plane 11, physics & flight model updates coming

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2019

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X-Plane 11, the detailed flight simulator is finally closing in on an update that will bring in Vulkan support.

No Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation for Linux but Ashes II and future Stardock titles should be

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2019

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Good and bad news to share this Tuesday morning. Stardock Entertainment have given an update on the status of porting Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation to Vulkan and Linux.

D9VK 0.22 released fixing The Sims 2 and games complaining drivers are too old

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2019

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Joshua Ashton released a small tidying up version of D9VK yesterday, fixing a few issues to give you a better experience with this D3D9 to Vulkan layer.

DXVK 1.4.1 is out fixing issues with Batman: Arkham City, Hitman 2 and Ni no Kuni Remastered

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2019

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The fresh releases just don't stop rolling off the production line recently. Developer Philip Rebohle announced the DXVK 1.4.1 update tonight to clear up some issues from the recent big release.

D3D9 over Vulkan gets even better as D9VK 0.21 'Lollihop' is out

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

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Developer Joshua Ashton continues doing some great work, as another release of the D3D9 to Vulkan layer D9VK is out.

DXVK 1.4 released boosting this Vulkan layer to support D3D 11.4

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2019

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Developer Philip Rebohle has pushed out another major release of DXVK, the Vulkan to D3D layer used together in Wine and Steam Play.

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

By Liam Dawe, 9 Sep 2019

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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.

DXVK 1.3.4 is out with a few quick fixes, plus more updates to Proton GE

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2019

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Two bits of Wine related news for you to peruse over this fine Sunday evening, as both DXVK and Proton GE have new releases available.

NVIDIA has a new Vulkan Beta driver which may fix multiple titles with DXVK and Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, 7 Sep 2019

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It seems the NVIDIA driver has had a few issues lately with multiple titles played with DXVK and Steam Play, so they've put out a new Vulkan Beta driver in need of some testing.