In the meantime, Ubisoft updated Rainbow Six Siege to VULKAN [External Link].

Rainbow Six Siege currently uses the DirectX 11 API which was released more than 10 years ago. While it still delivers great performance, the graphics driver requires significant amounts of CPU processing. Moreover, some features supported by modern GPUs are not compatible with older APIs such as DirectX 11. (We also evaluated DirectX 12, but our internal tests show better CPU performance under Vulkan.)

That is the right technical path to follow for Windows games.. So, obviously, Psyonix is having bad intentions.

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Is my Haswell i7 4790K affected?

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C'mon Valve! Fund the multi language Voice overs and you have the next GOTY.

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"minor performance and memory optimizations" for DX9.....
Whats that mean? Can Borderlands: The pre-sequel be played with UHD textures without crashing?

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I have this game on my first Steam Linux account [External Link], but I never played it and I used a serial key from Humble Monthly, so no refund for me...

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Plus the STYX series has been released with a good discount...



I wonder if they work on Linux via Crossover or regular Wine.

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Quoting: Hori

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: Mountain ManWe're still niche, and that's a problem. Developing for Linux is more attractive than ever before, but we're still a tiny percentage which makes long-term support a problem for many studios.

VR is much more niche than Linux and there are several VR technologies, but that doesn't stop publishers...

This is not about the logic of market share; is about the emotions and personal point of views of each CEO.

Actually it does.
And even so, you can't compare it with VR. VR is something completely new and has a bright future ahead.
Linux is... what, really? There already is Windows, so what does Linux do? It does what has already been done but a little different.

Linux is nice if you want to tinker with it, customise it, or use it regularly but with a higher degree of privacy.
Apparently mos people don't care about that. And Microsoft isn't seen as a great evil or anything like that by most people.

So yeah, on an individual level, Linux is great. But in the eyes of the game companies... it's not worth supporting unless they have to. And they don't have to.

I remind you that STADIA IS LINUX and big publishers are supporting it..
As I said, this is not about market share; is about personal beliefs of the big companies CEOs...
Sadly, the CEOs of big companies are not Linuxians...

But if enough Linuxians get enough stock share of those Big publishers that are public traded, the thing can change for good: Anti-Linux CEOs can be fired.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWe're still niche, and that's a problem. Developing for Linux is more attractive than ever before, but we're still a tiny percentage which makes long-term support a problem for many studios.

VR is much more niche than Linux and there are several VR technologies, but that doesn't stop publishers...

This is not about the logic of market share; is about the emotions and personal point of views of each CEO.

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Quoting: SalvatosThat, and if Sony decides to open up more and release more games on PC, it would be excellent for Feral to build a relationship with them early! After all, I can’t imagine Sony would be opposed to keeping some of the PC sales away from Microsoft’s ecosystem :)

Well.. Naughty Dog is looking for a developer with Vulkan / DX12 expertise...

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It seems Left 4 Dead 3 is coming to VR too...


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