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NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan
11 Jan 2017 at 10:02 am UTC
Quoting: ShmerlVulkano is easier to use than raw Vulkan: https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano [External Link]
Yeah, but I don't think game devs will switch to Rust just to use it. Anyway, the more the better. There's never a single approach that works best for everybody.
Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
10 Jan 2017 at 10:32 pm UTC Likes: 1
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Quoting: rustybroomhandleDa heck is everyone so angry?
Ever been to the Internet before? As they say, 90% is porn and the rest pretty much heated arguments about stuff that just doesn't matter.
don't forget the cats. :P
Also arguments about cats, and cat(girl) porn, and most likely cat memes suitable for arguments about all of the above because this is the Internet.
NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan
10 Jan 2017 at 10:24 pm UTC
If using VkHLF incorrectly can result in performance comparable to OpenGL used correctly, this is a win-win. :)

But seriously, Vulkan needs libs like this to make it accessible to the masses.
Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
10 Jan 2017 at 7:15 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: rustybroomhandleDa heck is everyone so angry?
Ever been to the Internet before? As they say, 90% is porn and the rest pretty much heated arguments about stuff that just doesn't matter.
Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
10 Jan 2017 at 10:45 am UTC
Quoting: buenaventuraDo you have a ppa for ubuntu 16.04 for the latest kernel? I have tried installing it before (manually sort of) but it seems to have some bug with my wifi card (it just does not work). But I would like to try again. It would be nice with a ppa with a new kernel with amdgpu-for-gcn1.1 flags enabled.
I don't use one myself, no. A quick Google search finds this [External Link] though, if it helps. Daily (mainline and drm-next) builds are available on kernel.ubuntu.com [External Link] as well if you're feeling adventurous.
Rich Geldreich, a former Valve developer, has an interesting blog post about Valve supporting Linux and OpenGL
10 Jan 2017 at 10:24 am UTC
Quoting: slaapliedjeDebian Stretch is going into a Soft Freeze soon, then hard Freeze, so there should be a HUGE update to SteamOS once that happens.
Maybe. Jessie will be on long term support "to end of April/May 2020 [External Link]" so there's no actual need to hurry. I'd imagine they'd want to do it sooner rather than later though, unless they want to deviate even more from upstream and take a heavier maintenance burden themselves.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm wondering how much of Valve's work is just being put back into Debian proper. Anyone who has been following the development of it, should be quite excited for the potential SteamOS.
I don't think they actively upstream anything much. Any changes are in the open SteamOS repo, but Debian maintainers pretty much need to actively trawl for patches. Valve doesn't seem to have an actual policy of keeping a minimal patchset (like Ubuntu claims to) unless I've missed something.
Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
10 Jan 2017 at 9:39 am UTC
Quoting: tuxintuxedoJust a reminder. On Mint you should also let the system update its kernels (which they officially not really recommend), cause there were a lot of fixes for the radeon and amdgpu driver.
You can also install even newer, supported kernels through the update manager's Linux-kernels dialog. Mint 18 (Ubuntu 16.04.1) has up to 4.8.0 in the standard repos. For 4.9.0 you need a PPA.
Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers
9 Jan 2017 at 7:03 pm UTC
Quoting: ShmerlValve have no control over how games store configuration. And games shouldn't rely on such control either. It will only complicate ability to release games without Steam.
Valve have quite a lot of control over games sold on their service. They're important enough that devs are willing to work to get their games on Steam.

In any case, I don't see the harm in them requiring adherence to standard practices, like the XDG directory spec. I don't think they would though, although they already recommend the spec and have automation/helper tools in their SteamOS SDK.
Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
9 Jan 2017 at 1:22 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: LeopardFor possibility of Aspyr media speaking as you say in the article;can you ask them are they planning to move their previous tittles to Vulkan?
This is extremely unlikely for existing titles. Is there a specific Aspyr port that doesn't perform adequately with OpenGL? Bit of a wasted effort otherwise.
Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
9 Jan 2017 at 1:12 pm UTC
Quoting: dmantionedaniel@daniel:~> tclsh
% format %c%c%c%c 0b01000011 0b01101001 0b01110110 0b00110110
python3 -c "print(''.join([int(char, 2).to_bytes(1,'big').decode() for char in ['0b01000011','0b01101001','0b01110110','0b00110110']]))"
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