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Quoting: khalismur...I know I might sound negative, but most people are so eagerly expecting this API to be the saviour of AAA GNU/Linux gaming. Am I delusional to think that games fully supporting Vulkan will take 2+ years to come out, and the performance gain will not be that magical? Mind you, I'd love to be wrong :-)

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You can see the sort of thing that can be accomplished with Vulkan already, here's one example.

Yeah, that's not "one example" but the "only example" I know of. While it might look impressive, let's not forget it's prototype software running on prototype drivers, running on Windows.

I hope you are right, and I also hope we see something before the end of 2056.

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I don't think it will bring anything to the table this year. You seem very excited about Vulkan, OP, but I'm afraid I don't share these feelings.

"NVIDIA will therefore provide a few Vulkan extensions from day zero" means to me they will slowly implement it into the driver. How long will it take until enough is implemented? Or even after that, how long until some game actually uses it? And even further, how big of a performance gain can we end users realistically expect?

I know I might sound negative, but most people are so eagerly expecting this API to be the saviour of AAA GNU/Linux gaming. Am I delusional to think that games fully supporting Vulkan will take 2+ years to come out, and the performance gain will not be that magical? Mind you, I'd love to be wrong :-)

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Oh man, why did you link something from Jim Carrey?? He is one of the worst entertainers I've seen. Maybe if one turns off 95% of the brain's processing power, his jokes could be enjoyed.

On topic:
I'm also very interested in this game but as other said, I'm gonna want until release. Had enough EA experiences...

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionI would hope not the future of all gaming. How would you own the game in such a scenario? What happens if you don't have internet access? To rely on WebGL for all your gaming would be no different than to give in to any other DRM schemes.

If it is the future of gaming, hopefully that only applies to multiplayer-only titles which need network access anyway.

I understand your conservative point of view. But the world has moved on...

I agree with Xelancer. Why exactly do you want to own a game, anyway? Some people like to display the boxes in collections, which they see as hobbys. Other than this, it's hard to see another use of physically owning game media. Accessing offline is possible once you have downloaded, from most online retailers. The world will be soon 100% online anyway (like it or not! I, for once, don't like it. But it's the way it is...)

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Well, the game has been in early access for two long years. It's not vaporware but WTF. Costumer respect doesn't exist anymore it seems.

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I find the trailer aggressive marketing and not really funny. If it's good and has good marketing, people buy. No need for this sort of message.

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This project is awesome. I'm glad they are still working, as the engine is very close to be complete.
Morrowind GOTY had 66% discount at Steam this week.

The new version of OpenMW runs very flawlessly with high resolutions even with an Intel HD 4400. Highly recommended to have this gem natively running on Linux!!

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Hmmm strange. Here it works flawlessly

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Just bought it. Looks very nice! Thanks for sheding some light onto this gem.

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Quoting: dimkoIts not going to be silver bullet. Most likely it will have near zero impact.
Most devs simply wont bother porting their existing games to Vulkan. Those who develop games right now, will not support Vulkan either. Some will, but number will be small.

This half year for sure there wont be too much exciting.
Big AAA titles will come out, as expected, the ones announced. But that's about it. Next half year is going to be more interesting though.

Makes a lot of sense. However, considering that:
1) Valve is a very big player in the gaming scene
2) They might get even bigger soon if Steam hardware releases successfully
3) Vulkan implementation is very interesting for them

things might run a bit faster than expected. Or at least that's what I hope for.

I also have a different opinion that liam on "I will be more interested to see some graphically heavy games use it."

With the great numbers of laptops running Linux, I think Vulkan can bring many titles that are or would be barely playable into a playable state for these mobile PCs which do not frequently have powerful hardware. Considering performance improvements over OpenGL are considerable, this market might be quite significant... (like 40% of the 1% :-)

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