Great, another Paradox game that I'll play for dozens of hours and still feel like I've barely scratched the surface.

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Quoting: Mountain ManNow we just need more games supporting Vulcan. :D

this Vulkan typo is annoying, please stop

Though seriously, why is it spelled with a 'k'? The word obviously derives from the Latin "Vulcanus" -- the Roman equivalent of Hephaestus; and in Latin the letter 'c' accounts almost exclusively for the 'k' sound.

I mean, if the 'k' were at the beginning, I would've suspected intervention by the KDE e.V.; but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I assume the word "Vulcan" is copyrighted by Paramount. But being a lifelong Star Trek fan, I habitually type "Vulcan" and have to consciously remember to type it as "Vulkan" in this context.

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"It costs $39.95 to get what's essentially a starter-pack for the game..."

Well, that killed any interest I might have had.

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Quoting: ziabiceWill they ever fix the Steam Runtime to run with open source graphics drivers?

Alternatively, will the open source drivers ever be fixed to run with Steam Runtime?

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Now we just need more games supporting Vulcan. :D

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Quoting: KimyrielleBut the much more important question is...will it outperform DX12? Because if it doesn't devs will go "Why would we add a Vulkan render path for these 1% that use Linux?"

Performance isn't the only advantage of Vulkan or even the primary advantage. It's the fact that it can work on pretty much every platform that is capable of running games.

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Nice to see Vulcan out-performing OpenGL.

On a related note, I had no idea that Steam overlay had such a huge impact on performance!

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Reading their statement again, it sounds like they would allow it but they don't have a proper way to categorize it yet.

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Quoting: sobkasIt would make sense if Valve put any substantial effort to manage Steam as a platform and not allow literally everyone squeez their turds into it.

I thought Valve very effectively solved that problem by allowing refunds and giving disgruntled customers the opportunity to express their grievances in user reviews. Between those two, there's really no reason a poorly made game should find any kind of success.

Now if people are still getting ripped off by early access games that fail to live up to developers' promises, well, that's their own dumb fault for buying an unfinished product.

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This was obviously a marketing stunt, and it worked. It got them noticed, and that's all they were trying to do. I don't think anybody seriously expected Valve to allow a competitor's digital storefront to be distributed through Steam.

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