The Talos Principle, Croteam's fantastic first-person puzzle game has a fresh beta available to test with some major changes.
It includes massive changes under the hood, including a much more up to date version of their Serious Engine. This brings with it 64bit by default, OpenGL removed in favour of Vulkan along with "various other optimizations, fixes, and tweaks that will make your gameplay experience better without you knowing why that is".
I did a few benchmarks this morning just to see how it's working now and unsurprisingly the Linux version remains incredibly smooth. With the performance options cranked to Ultra, rendering at 1080p and MSAA x4 on it was hitting an average of 112 FPS.
To access it, all you need to do is select the "publicbeta" branch on Steam. You can find it by right clicking the game in your Steam library, going to Properties and hit the Beta tab of the UI. From there, it's in the dropdown box:
See more about the beta here.
Hat tip to mphuZ.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: GuestHm, without Vulkan it's not possible to play it any longer on Optimus Hardware, as far as I know Bumblebee dose not support Vulkan.
There is still a 32 bit version in the beta branch. Might be worth checking if this is an older build which still has OpenGL.
Otherwise it's been running very well. The occasional graphical glitches that I saw when I last ran the Vulkan build are gone and everything looks as it should. Can't really comment on the performance since I switched GPUs since then.
Quoting: GuestHm, without Vulkan it's not possible to play it any longer on Optimus Hardware, as far as I know Bumblebee dose not support Vulkan.
Or do I miss something?
Have and old Intel i5-3230M with and GT 730M (not my main gaming machine) and if I run vulkaninfo it tells me that Vulkan support is incomplete.
Regardless of if I run the command with or with out optirun or primusrun.
I have an Optimus laptop ( GTX 1050) and i can play all Vulkan games.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/aoh5be/guide_hybrid_graphics_on_linux_nvidia_optimus/
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