Category: Vulkan

If you have one of the more recent NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, here's an interesting project for you to try. Q2VKPT from developer Christoph Schied implements some really quite advanced techniques.

DXVK, the excellent project that Valve has been funding has a fresh brew out to continue the exciting progress made.

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.

It seems to be a busy weekend! NVIDIA have put out a new version of their Vulkan beta driver and it's an interesting one.

A nice way to end the week, Stardock have given some more updates on Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation for Linux and they said something rather interesting.

It appears we missed this one from December last year, vkQuake2 is Quake 2 amplified with Vulkan support.

Some fun weekend news for those wanting another RTS to play, as Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation is getting closer to a Linux release.

The developer of VK9, another rather interesting compatibility layer has advanced further with the announcement of another completed milestone.

The Valve-funded DXVK project, which kicks over D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan for use with Wine has another fresh brew available.

It seems a lot of Unity games upgrading to later versions of Unity are suffering from graphical distortions on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU. There is a workaround available.

For those of you using Intel and AMD (and some older NVIDIA cards) Mesa 18.3.0 was officially released today.

After NVIDIA updated their beta Vulkan drivers recently, it came with a pretty big issue they've now corrected.

Project Stream, the game streaming platform Google is currently building is apparently built on Linux and uses the Vulkan API.

Take a little Wine, sprinkle over some Vulkan and you get DXVK. Part of what makes Steam Play do its magic, it has another fresh release out today.

Vendetta Online, the MMO from Guild Software Inc that has supported Linux for a long time is going to add Vulkan support alongside some other fun sounding advancements.

Serious Sam Fusion, the game hub that allows you to play Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam 3: BFE along with the VR version finally has an update.

DXVK, the excellent Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation used together with Wine that forms part of Valve's Steam Play has a fresh brew ready.

Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 4.21 and it includes some interesting stuff on the Linux side of things.

DXVK continues to progress helping Linux fans play some of their favourite Windows only games with the 0.91 release now available.

Here's one I wasn't aware of, developer Erik “kusma” Faye-Lund from Collabora has been working on Zink. It's a new OpenGL implementation that works on top of Vulkan.