Quoting: buenaventuraI'm not sure I understand Vulkan, I presume it brings better performance? So, if I have a game that supports both OpenGL and Vulkan, I would be better of using Vulkan (when this driver is mature)?

Vulkan enables lower-level access to a GPU, meaning developers can squeeze more performance. It also has better multi-threading. In theory it should bring better performance, but some games may still be perfectly fine on OpenGL.

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Quoting: zilotI still find it funny that people recommend Ubuntu as a user friendly distribution, while it have so many issues...

It's still the distro to go to for newbies, despite problems, it does require far less manual configuration, which is the main point for people new to Linux.

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Quoting: jlacroixReason being, gaming on Arch/Antergos is just a pain in the behind. It's not Arch's fault, but game devs only target Ubuntu, which means the fact that Arch having newer libraries constantly gets in the way. In order to use Steam or GOG games, I find myself having to write scripts with export commands to use different libraries or bypass things, and it just doesn't work all that well.

This is somewhat fixed with Valve's latest Steam client which fixes a bit of the lib mess. Antergos also included the option to launch with either Steam or Native libs, which also helped solve the issue.

Personally, so far, I haven't had an issue with any game not running and I do obviously test rather a lot in my time.

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What's the issue with Planetary Annihilation?

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Quoting: hardpenguin

Quoting: liamdawelibGLEW.so.1.13

Installed by default on Ubuntu 16.04, Mr Antergos Man :P

We have a much newer version, 1.13 is from 2015 ;)

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Quoting: lordheavySo, now the next step is to move to an AMD card? maybe Vega? :p

I'm actually keeping a keen eye on AMD for a future upgrade. Even with the closed firmware, AMD is vastly more open than NVIDIA in general so it's a logical choice. I will be watching benchmarks and Mesa closely to see how it all works out.

I won't need a GPU upgrade until at least next year (I do have a 980ti after all). Hopefully by then the next-next generation of GPUs will be out.

Edit: Spelling and wrong words used oops.

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Quoting: kilbith

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: kilbithCorrection : OpenGL 4.5 for Intel Haswell [External Link]. Although that doesn't matter much because games using OpenGL 4.x are generally way too heavy for such a GPU (which I have).

As far as I can tell, that patch was not taken into Mesa-git in time for branching? That's from the dev list, not the actual git commit list.

Edit: Even the linked release notes only mention 4.2.

That patch actually landed 3 days ago into the Mesa 17.0 branch, as you can see there [External Link].

Ah nice, edited the article. Thanks!

I'm still getting to grips with the mailing lists and how their commits work.

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Quoting: kilbithCorrection : OpenGL 4.5 for Intel Haswell [External Link]. Although that doesn't matter much because games using OpenGL 4.x are generally way too heavy for such a GPU (which I have).

As far as I can tell, that patch was not taken into Mesa-git in time for branching? That's from the dev list, not the actual git commit list.

Edit: Even the linked release notes only mention 4.2.

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Note: Article was originally just about GOG, but updated as I noticed it released on Steam too.

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Quoting: liberodarkhello why not use manjaro is better than antergos more stable !
"This is only my opinion"

Cordialy

Last time I tried Manjaro a random update broke GRUB, don't want to go back to that any time soon.

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