Quoting: Alm888What?.. And this was somehow standardized by Khronos?! So, now we have OS-specific functions as part of the standard or what? I'm confused, seriously confused!

The platforms are different, and Vulkan is an explicit API. Khronos provides API extensions for developers to handle these differences instead of abstracting them away. Makes sense to me.

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Quoting: chancho_zombieat nuuvem.com there is a carnival sale for south america for 41 reales (14 usd).

Shows $23.99 for me, but Feral wouldn't get a cent. I'm hoping they'll have a 50% off launch sale in their own store and Steam like they did with Hitman.

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Quoting: liamdaweWell, in my interview with Aspyr Media they did say this:

Its no secret Steam machines haven't taken off as well as the Linux community had hoped, but that doesn't prevent us from considering titles for the platform. It does however make us be more selective as to which titles we chose to port.

So it's not quite a priority any more.

True, but they also said this:

Q: Do you have any other Linux game ports planned currently?
A: We have several original IP's that we will be bringing to the platform in 2017!

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I'll be there to annoyingly beg for a launch discount. ;)

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Quoting: GuppyThen perhaps you could enlighten @camoceltic as to how it's done?

This answer [External Link] should give you (and him) an idea. Not entirely straight-forward, but should do the job. Someone should design a good gui for managing and redirecting pulseaudio sinks, but I guess those who actually need this stuff tend to use Jack.

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Quoting: GuppyA long time ago I used some software called JACK that would allow me to create custom audio pipes to either send other programs or to specific output channels on my "Sound Blaster Live!".

Pulseaudio should handle this use case just fine. Jack is excellent for other reasons, but overkill for most of us.

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Oh god, rhythm game segments just might kill it for me. The rest of it looks quirky and wonderful.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80He was head of ID when they published Quake 3 on linux I think in a later interview when asked about Linux he said something along lines of we tried it once the market is not there.

Comments made all those years ago are hardly relevant today.

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Quoting: GuestEh? I said oversaturated with "non news", and that "this one" was a guide.
I counted 6 "non news" articles just on the first page.

Well GOL is a community site, not a news portal.

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI think John Carmack said something like that [External Link]

That's not what he's saying. He just basically advocates for what VP and Feral (not sure about Aspyr) are doing today.

VP's eON might be very much like Wine, but AFAIK Feral's IndirectX is a source level shim, and hardly in the same category. They do not wrap Windows binaries or do runtime API translation.

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