Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: sigzI'm really disapointed.. Valve doesn't release its own game with vulkan and for steam OS at release ?? And they make it with dx11 after participating massively on vulkan for years ?? I don't get it..
They just don't believe themselves on linux gaming then, It would not be surprising if they delay more and more alyx linux release.

It's likely a case of when production started, Vulkan was still too new and rough or didn't have extensions needed to get the kind of performance they wanted. As we've seen with Artifact (RIP) and Dota Underlords, their newer stuff is usually Vulkan at release.

Who knows. Maybe the Windows version is targeting Vulkan.
But drivers on Linux are still lacking stuff?

So they offer the D3D11 code path just for Proton/DXVK?

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OMG. *happy*

This is so important for us.
Not just for VR users.

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Is this targeting dedicated RT hardware or generic compute resources?

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Quoting: GuestProbably i'm over simplifying things, but basically it takes some layers, extrudes them and maps the same texture on the extruded part.
I'm certainly missing a ton of work/specific game quirks here :)

I agree, game specific stuff must be present.
Take the pipes in the video.
To accomplish this in a generic way,
the program would require the notion of
this object being a pipe and not just extrude it.
Also the placement of objects a different (fitting) z position
hints a lot of hand-tuned game-specific stuff.

Anyway. This is great and the list features Mega Man 1-3.
I'm in!

Btw, hope they'll get Castlevania 3 supported soon.
The Japanese version hacked with English text.
It featured a separated superior sound chip on the cartridge
(which wasn't technical possible on the US/EU NES).

Just listen to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqyoTvZ5cOE [External Link]

(NES version for comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq3xvjofK7k [External Link])

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Quoting: ajgp

Quoting: PublicNuisanceCan't wait for open source CPUs to become more popular and powerful.

So any open source CPU would most likely be ARM based (...)

Most likely RISC-V

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Quoting: Kristian

Quoting: 1xokI wonder if this is really the 20-year-old source engine.

Half-Life 2 came out in 2004, so that would be 16 years. Since then the Source Engine has received several updates, including to 2.0. Although I don't know if this uses 2.0.

Nope. There is no Source 2 SDK available and still won't for at least quite some time.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/357052/No_plans_for_a_full_Source_2_SDK_and_other_tidbits_from_Valves_HalfLife_Alyx_AMA.php [External Link]

What I frequently hear is that Source is a total mess code-wise compared to the other big engines.
And this shows in the documentation. Maybe Valve cannot force themselves to bring it in good shape for a SDK release. Who knows.

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Quoting: jrt

Quoting: jrtSadly not even the SteamVR Home destinations for HL:A work on Linux :'(

Update: The Half-Life Alyx SteamVR Home environments are getting fixed linux support with the next SteamVR beta release: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/304#issuecomment-595790309 [External Link]

Hmm, that's promising.
Maybe we'll see Alyx get an unannounced beta release on Linux too?

Crap communication nevertheless, though.

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Quoting: EhvisLooks like they've been so busy cleaning up SteamVR before the HL:Alyx release, that they didn't do anything for Linux this time.

Then again, they said more than a month ago that HL:Alyx is basically done and in an extremely good shape (which has to include SteamVR obviously).
Doesn't sound like crunch-time panic to me. :)

That's why I had some hope, they could find the time to wire up Linux (and Mac).
But I guess that is sadly out of question now.

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Thanks for the comment on HL:Alyx, Liam.

Very appreciated.

I have to admit, I'm very disappointed by the silence of Valve concerning this.
Why not communicating that they probably work on it and it's a technical thing for now.
Or if they really put the focus on the Windows release - why not telling *us* that?

It'd be sad but I can ofc respect that.

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Quoting: Liam DaweUpdate: Phoronix removed the article, and placed up an apology.

Feral considered (or took) legal action? :whistle:
After all this kind of news can seriously affect your business.

I've never seen Phoronix taking down a news and apologizing before.

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