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Latest Comments by pete910
Ballistic Overkill to get Vulkan support tomorrow and lots more
15 May 2017 at 11:29 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: iskaputtCan this be bought on steam and then played without the steam client? Nothing 32-bits to ever touch my system.
lol.
Rules out 99% of the games on steam then including Ballistic overkill

AMD Vulkan driver 'radv' is now 'effectively a pass' for conformance
4 May 2017 at 9:21 pm UTC

Quoting: STiAT
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: CreakKnowing that the Linux kernel maintainers don't allow two drivers enabled for the same hardware at the same time (from what I understood), there's going to be a battle between RADV and AMD if they open source their Vulkan drivers...
They would more than likely merge the two.
I highly doubt that. We may see the AMDGPU-PRO driver making use of radv in future instead of their own implementation below AMDs AL in their driver. Same thing which goes on now with the DC/DAL patchset. It's more work involved there for the AMD devs, and AMD has been .. slightly pissed off not being able to do what ever they want for their hardware in the kernel, so we may still end up with two implementations in the end ;-).
We are referring to Vulkan and Radv not the kernel driver

AMD Vulkan driver 'radv' is now 'effectively a pass' for conformance
4 May 2017 at 8:16 pm UTC

Or AMD would hand it to dave to integrate into RADv which I feel they would do.

AMD Vulkan driver 'radv' is now 'effectively a pass' for conformance
4 May 2017 at 8:08 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: CreakKnowing that the Linux kernel maintainers don't allow two drivers enabled for the same hardware at the same time (from what I understood), there's going to be a battle between RADV and AMD if they open source their Vulkan drivers...
They would more than likely merge the two.

Hellpoint, the dark sci fi action RPG now has a demo on Steam with Linux support
4 May 2017 at 4:23 pm UTC

Nice to see a game that uses multi cores for a change, 100 + fps @ 1440p . Does seem slow paced but not a big player of these types of games.

Nice to see decent launch options too like Monitor selection, input ect .

Quite liked it tbh. Will keep an eye on this

Steam Audio comes to Unreal Engine 4
4 May 2017 at 4:16 pm UTC

Can't get 4.16 to compile on Antergos :( nor 4.15 for that matter

Two Worlds II to release on Linux in May, along with engine upgrade & Call of the Tenebrae DLC
21 Apr 2017 at 7:18 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: pete910
Two Worlds II to be released on Linux in May
:whistle:
Fixed, in future, please use the corrections box.
Wasn't sure if intentional or not, I know how you southern lot are :P

Announcing a new fun venture for me: Our sister site LifeOnLinux
18 Apr 2017 at 6:20 pm UTC

Still waiting on a activation email :(

The UNIGINE engine will get Vulkan support this year
13 Apr 2017 at 4:03 pm UTC

Quoting: EhvisFrom the results thread it is obvious that even at low fps, the results are still very dependent on the CPU. This suggests that a decent gain should be possible with Vulkan.
Going on the results I've seen it makes little difference on CPU.

If you look at the bench thread you have a 980ti with a AMD8320e beating the same card with a intel 5960, Rather a large difference don't you think.
Pretty sure a 5960 in vastly superior to a 8320e :P