The original one was a lot of fun to me. Hopefully the sequel will see a port too.

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Actually, you mentioning Android is a big hit. Since Android will be using Vulkan, that's a much higher threat to Microsoft than Valve or Steam could ever be. People develop for Android, they have to. The only question is - will Google really tackle the client/desktop OS market? I still doubt it... there are better ways to accomplish that.

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Quoting: kellerkindtWhat is the PS4 using? Wasn't the PS3 using a OpengGL ES kinda like API?

Well, to put that true:
On PS4 we have GNM and GMNX where GNM is the "hardware closer" version like Vulkan and DirectX12, and GNMX being the one closer to DirectX (API whise).

On PS3 we had PSGL (closer to OpenGL) and GCM (more hardware-close like Vulkan/DirectX12) now.

So Sony opted for having a "not so optimized" DirectX11 like API on PS4 where they opted for a more OpenGL like API on PS3, while "adopting" GCM to GNM with the PS4 for more optimized development.

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I don't want to see it. I want to play it!

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Sounds like them :D.

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My setting, my kind of game. If they ever hit Linux it's a must buy. It actually looks pretty well for early access.

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Quoting: TheRiddickPhoronix saw over double increase in Deus Ex frame rates on his rx470 test. Very nice indeed.

That's very likely not because of this patch, since the patch was commited after the test of Phoronix, and he ran the same Mesa-Version against two different kernels.

And DeusEx runs pretty a lot better on kernel 4.8 than on 4.9 or 4.10, so I'd bet this was a regression introduced with 4.9 getting fixed with 4.11.

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@Shmerl is right, game developers could have perfectly well built their own shader disk cache.

Looking at the patch, if it is really essential for many games, I really wonder why it wasn't implemented earlier. Maybe they just had too many other issues to fix, but this patch is .. pretty simple. Or maybe they assumed that games would do their caches on their own anyway (I'm sure Croteam does this "because they can" :p).

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Bought and played it on my RX460 today. Runs surprisingly smooth on default settings.

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At start I didn't think Talos Principle will be a game for me. I bought it anyway, since it was the first game with Vulkan I could test.

And it became my favorite game by now.

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