Article category: Vulkan - page 27

GDC sounds like it will be fun this year with AMD, NVIDIA, Khronos, Unity & Croteam all talking Vulkan

8 Feb 2017

This year's GDC sounds like it might be quite interesting! AMD, NVIDIA, Khronos, Unity, Croteam and more have announced they will be doing a bunch of talks and some of them will be about Vulkan.

Watch this video of David Airlie (Redhat) talking about Vulkan and other bits

8 Feb 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Something that sadly got buried in my inbox is this video of David Airlie (Red Hat) talking about the Vulkan Graphics API.

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Jonathan Blow states he is open to a Linux port of The Witness with Vulkan, but never with OpenGL

26 Jan 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

For those of you interested in seeing The Witness on Linux, it seems Jonathan Blow mentioned it again recently in a livestream in response to a viewer question. It's hard to argue with what he's saying.

Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate now available

25 Jan 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

In addition to Mesa 17 getting a new release candidate, we also today have a Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate which should be released on Friday.

The open source Vulkan driver 'radv' for AMD on Linux has patches for geometry shader support

20 Jan 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Dave Airlie sent in a massive patch-set of 31 patches for 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver, to support geometry shaders.

The release of Mesa 17 has seen a bit of a delay, for all the right reasons

17 Jan 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Mesa 17, the next stable release of the open source graphics drivers on Linux has been a bit delayed, due to so much last minute work going on. Looks like Intel Ivy Bridge will get OpenGL 4.0.

The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' now supports using multiple GPUs

16 Jan 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

A commit that just landed in Mesa-git allows for 'radv', the open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to use multiple devices.

Early Access survival game 'Rust' gains Vulkan support in a pre-release

13 Jan 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Rust, from Facepunch Studios is another game to add to the list that use Vulkan, although it's only on the pre-release version right now.

NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan

10 Jan 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

NVIDIA has put out what they call 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan. Looks like it's under a BSD-style license too.

ARK: Survival Evolved plans to use Vulkan for Linux this year

2 Jan 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

After another Linux site listed ARK in their top games list, the ARK Twitter account tweeted out publicly to let everyone know that ARK: Survival Evolved will move to Vulkan for Linux.

Editorial: The Nintendo Switch will use Vulkan, why that doesn't suddenly mean more Linux ports

19 Dec 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

The news doing the rounds right now is that the Nintendo Switch, the new gaming device from Nintendo will use Vulkan. People are getting rather excited and thinking it will mean more Linux ports, but right now it won't.

EGOSOFT planning two new space simulation games, 'X Rebirth VR Edition' using Vulkan and also X4

19 Dec 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

EGOSOFT, who became pretty Linux-friendly in recent times are working on two new space simulation games! X Rebirth VR Edition will use Vulkan and they are starting to plan X4.

VK9, the open source project to implement d3d9 over Vulkan reaches another milestone

18 Dec 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

The developer of VK9, the project that aims to implement d3d9 over Vulkan, emailed in to let me know they have hit another milestone.

Unity 5.6 beta with Vulkan is now available

13 Dec 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Unity 5.6 beta is now available and it brings Vulkan into the main builds of the Unity engine, exciting times!

The Talos Principle stable build updated, includes the latest improvements for Vulkan (updated)

12 Dec 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Croteam have updated The Talos Principle today to move the last beta build over to the stable release.

The next driver release from NVIDIA will support using Vulkan without needing the X11 on Linux

6 Dec 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

It seems NVIDIA are preparing a new driver update that will enable the use of Vulkan without needing X11.

Edge Of Eternity, a beautiful indie tribute to J-RPG classics is waiting on Unity & Vulkan

2 Dec 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Edge Of Eternity is a really fantastic looking indie tribute to the J-RPG classics and the developers have confirmed Linux will not see a release until Vulkan is stable in Unity.

Hardware maker 'Razer' has joined The Khronos Group to back open standards

1 Dec 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

This isn't exactly surprising, but Razer have joined The Khronos Group to back open standards. While not surprising, it's still awesome news.

VK9, the open source project to implement d3d9 over Vulkan continues to improve

28 Nov 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

VK9, formerly known as 'SchaeferGL' is an open source project that aims to implement d3d9 over Vulkan.

The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' continues improving at a rapid pace

24 Nov 2016

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By Liam Squires-Hand

As always, I am massively impressed with the progress the Mesa developers have made. The open source Vulkan driver 'radv' has continued to evolve recently.

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