Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Kuduzkehpanmac os will support vulkan its not so different than OpenGL and METAL wont gonna be popular or Trending. And vendors are more mature to build vulkan ready graphic drivers for mac os.

Unless you know something the rest of the industry doesn't, Mac will not support Vulkan. Apple are putting their eggs in the Metal basket. Apple make/approve the drivers, so you can't just slot Vulkan into Mac like you can do on Linux and Windows.

Also Vulkan is very different from OpenGL. The only thing these API's do have in common is that both are managed by the Khronos Group. In fact Vulkan and Metal are more likely to have something in common than Vulkan and OpenGL do.

As Liam said, Apple isn't likely to support Vulkan on IOS or OSX. Molten [External Link] could make this problem go away, we'll see.

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The game seems really fun. Too bad my friends have probably already lost interest, and playing with random strangers isn't really my cup of tea. I'll most likely still get it but I might have to wait for a sale. Happily the Steam summer sale isn't far off.

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Quoting: Anjune

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: AnjuneIt's out for Windows. I don't want to wait two more months (never mind how long it'll really take) now that I've seen how gorgeous it is :(

But what can ya do

You know what they say: "Waiting makes it better!" Nice to be a Linux gamer eh? We sure spend a lot of time waiting...

At least it's more affordable that way... *smirk*

Silver lining spotted.

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I'm a sucker for a good comedy adventure. Nice to see there's a demo. If it tickles my funny bone, the game's sure to end up high on my wishlist.

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Quoting: AnjuneIt's out for Windows. I don't want to wait two more months (never mind how long it'll really take) now that I've seen how gorgeous it is :(

But what can ya do

You know what they say: "Waiting makes it better!" Nice to be a Linux gamer eh? We sure spend a lot of time waiting...

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My games aren't detected either. I wonder if this doesn't work for steam keys bought in humble bundles?

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: tuubiThe switched colours and sort order in the AMD chart threw me off a bit. Would be nice if these three tables were all laid out the same, with open source at the top.

Noted and fixed, Open Source is always first on those now, so the colour and sorting both matches in all three.

Cool. These charts really underline the awesome progress of AMD's open-source efforts. I'm sure there are a few AMD developers who'd be very happy to see these results. They must be doing something right if such a large percentage of Linux gamers prefer the open-source driver already.

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Quoting: liamdaweAs requested by Edwin we now show what driver people use split across all, nvidia only and amd only.

The switched colours and sort order in the AMD chart threw me off a bit. Would be nice if these three tables were all laid out the same, with open source at the top.

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Quoting: GuestFore someone installing Ubuntu for the first time there is nothing "Official" looking about the Launchpad PPA. Official, to me at least, means repositories that are included in the install or can be selected from a repository list in the repo manager. There are a lot of things about Linux that are not transparent for new users, especially when graphics drivers are concerned.

You are absolutely right, and I didn't mean to sound condencending. Sorry about that. I did put the word official in double quotes to indicate that the PPA is still a work-in-progress and the only thing making it sort of official is that it's managed by Ubuntu staff. AFAIK it's hoped that when they get it all figured out, this PPA will be better integrated into Ubuntu's driver manager or something. It's already the best way to install these drivers though.

In any case, with Ubuntu (and most derivatives) a PPA is almost always the best source for software not in the official repositories, especially when said PPA is managed by Canonical employees (as is the case here) or developers of whatever software you're installing. Other distros do things in other ways of course.

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Quoting: GuestIt took me over a week trying to find drivers that would work with XCOM2 until I found 364.19 drivers and figured out how to install them.

If you mean the "official" Ubuntu Proprietary GPU Drivers PPA [External Link], you could just say so. Spread the info, man. Not like it's a secret or anything. And the PPA is clearly the best way to install Nvidia's drivers on Ubuntu, unless you simply cannot wait for the day or two they take to add newly released drives.

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