Quoting: Bomyne

Quoting: XeekeiDoes this mean that there won't be any DirectX support in Source 2? Or did you just exclude that since Linux users wouldn't really care about that?

Hopefully no DirectX support.

If they focus their attention on OpenGL support, it'll work across all platforms, and not just Windows.

Sorry to get you out there, it has DirectX support, but will fully support Vulkan.

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This really doesn't look like a fake anymore....

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On my NV card after playing a while, the game sometimes stops responding for like 1-2 secs. Except for that it runs smooth.

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From the GDC15 Vulkan API-Talk:

"Device" is a logical representation of a GPU. It's how you talk to it. Each has a number of queues, you control which ones you want plus what extensions. You opt-in to extensions. Plus, what layers should be enabled (layers used for things like validation, debugging, logging, etc.)

and
Queues are things like compute queue, graphics queue. GPUs will have various numbers of each kind of queue. All queues scheduled independently and run async.

and
Batch up commands in command buffers. Each is thread local. You tell Vulkan what kind of queue each buffer will be sent to.

basically suggests a Mantle-Like design, in which case I'd have been wrong (oops! :D). Didn't watch the full video yet (I'm at work), but if you have time before I do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNMrU8uU5M [External Link]

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Quoting: blackout24

Quoting: sarmadThe slide says "Vulcan supported ACROSS THE BOARD on Steam Machines". I assume this means both AMD and nVidia have Vulcan drivers for Linux in development.

They demoed NVIDIA drivers during the talk and the later Vulkan sessions on Windows. Since the only thing different between NVIDIA drivers across platforms is a small shim to abstract the OS it would probably work in a few weeks. The Imagination Technology guys (two of them) wrote their Vulkan driver for PowerVR in just two months.

Both, NVidia and ATI told like half a year ago that they're implementing the Vulkan-API (back then OGL-Next) while it's designed in their drivers already. NVidia even went a step further, saying that they'll have a "day-1" release as soon as the API is stable for "all supported platforms", which I'd guess includes Linux.

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@Shmerl you're mistaken by that one. The important part is, that the command buffers (objects/materials) are done in seperate threads. Mantle we don't know - they never told us for sure, but I guess they did it the same way as Vulcan now (Vulcan is highly inspired by Mantle), but I'm sure that DX12 has a command queue as well, out of msdn blogs:
The only serial process necessary is the final submission of command lists to the GPU via the command queue, which is a highly efficient process.

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For TW3 port I could think on CDPR moving their Engine (maybe next-gen) to Vulkan, and within that TW3 could come as port.

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After reviewing the games, ... only four games I don't own already and want:
TW III, Shadow of Mordor, Grid, Cities Skylines. Eventually Batman too, but I'm still undecided about that one.

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- The Witcher III
YES!

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Quoting: KeyrockJudging by the name, this is likely going to be packing a GTX 970. That's a good choice. Lawsuit aside, the 970 is a damn good GPU. I'll be curious what the price tag will look like.

I was thinking of getting a 970 (EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC 1972) for my X51 gaming rick (people report they could upgrade to it).

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