Quoting: stss

Quoting: ZeloxCan someone explain to me if vulkun are going to aim for gpu's aswell. Like nvidia?
Giving us nvidia users a better experince on linux?
Or is it only cpu's. I haven seen the clip, I will.

Vulkan is a complete graphics API. It's not an addition on top of openGL or anything.
As far as I know the relationship between vulkan, programs, and your GPU/CPU is the same as openGL and directX, just that the way it accomplishes the same things is different. It's supposed to give developers more manual control over the gpu, meaning programming for vulkan is supposed to be more difficult, but can offer much better performance

Isn't that were game engines jump in to simplify things? So only developing the engine may get more complicated.

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Yeah the fps is bad at the moment. Nether the less they called out for benchmarks and reporting compatibility issues: http://ageofwonders.com/forums/topic/performance-compatibility-test-2/ [External Link]

So if you can help out it may help fixing bugs for Linux ;-)

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Maybe they want to release it for Steam Box and the PR doesn't know that's the same :D

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Steam has 125 Million customers as of February. I guess that's the reason why the % number dropped a little again.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9003/valve-to-showcase-steamvr-hardware-steam-machines-more-at-gdc-2015/ [External Link]

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I know what I do this weekend :D

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I'm a long time World of Warcraft player. That's why I was really passionate about the recent petition.

I started with a Linux again around a year ago. At first keeping a Dual Boot partition just in case.

I started playing WoW only through wine, which worked in most cases. I even played the last expansion alpha on Linux and reported bugs, which some only happened on Linux (e.g. OpenGL didn't work at start at all).

The only time I did boot Windows was to play Civilization 5. But shortly after its Linux release. I stopped booting Windows all together. Half a year later I thought it was time to get ride of Windows for good and removed it and converted every data partition from NTFS to ext4.

But then came Game of Thrones game. A game I really wanted to play. After the 2nd episode came out I did it. I installed Windows again to play it. The only difference I installed it on a USB stick, so I have laying it around just in case, but I'm not constantly confronted with it.

Currently I'm playing some native games from Steam. But I'm still playing WoW. Yet I play less and less WoW. I'm still undecided if I stop playing it or just bear with wine.

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The answer from them in % already proofed that they already made up their mind before the petition. Liam you were sadly right that a petition usually has no effect.

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Quoting: fleskI don't know if it's because I have a EU account, but I can't even post in that forum thread.

I have an EU account and I could post there without an issue.

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Quoting: stssI always knew to keep almost no expectations from Blizzard when it came to Linux, but I must admit I got my hopes up a little with the thread linked to in the article because the OP said he was asked by someone at blizzard to do this, indicating some interest on their part.
So to see such a definitive 'no' shortly after is pretty disappointing.

Couldn't say it better. I always had a lot of trust in Blizzard, but that's now shattered to pieces. I really thought Blizzard could make a difference. But that was only naive I guess.

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Does someone know how to buy it from Germany? Because it's on the index I can't buy it the normal way it seems.

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