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The open source Vulkan driver 'radv' for AMD on Linux has patches for geometry shader support
20 Jan 2017 at 4:51 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
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.
Probably also important to note is that the Vulkan driver doesn't run validation on each frame like OpenGL does. End users are not debugging.

Phoning Home, the story of two robots trying to survive will come to Linux
16 Jan 2017 at 2:07 pm UTC

The robots may have suckered me into a purchase. As long as it's not a walking simulator.

Linux market-share on Steam dropped 0.08% in December 2016
15 Jan 2017 at 5:35 am UTC Likes: 2

What? I'm saying it is accurate, have been saying that for quite some time.
Not directed at you. Just the inevitable responses to any time this number goes down.

Linux market-share on Steam dropped 0.08% in December 2016
15 Jan 2017 at 1:02 am UTC Likes: 1

Oh, we must be back on the "Steam survey is inaccurate" side of the pendulum this month.

Haswell should now see OpenGL 4.2 thanks to recent work in Mesa
12 Jan 2017 at 2:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

Now stable distro's mesa packages will look even more out of date.

Eco - Global Survival Game, an incredibly interesting looking game that's already on Linux
5 Jan 2017 at 12:53 am UTC Likes: 2

The next rung on the ladder to eventual reality simulations.

Civ VI Steam forum mods banning users for expressing Linux support
20 Dec 2016 at 2:19 pm UTC

So in other words, to hide their inadequacy as developers Feraxis would rather exert huge effort to smoke out any discussion of the thing they lack the skills to deliver. As an onlooker, I can only conclude that it must be some serious inadequacy.

BallisticNG, a racer inspired by Wipeout has unstable builds for Linux on Steam
15 Dec 2016 at 2:30 am UTC

Quoting: AimelaThere's no way this isn't F-Zero inspired. Even the music is similar.
The music is closer to F-Zero-GX but totally misses the inversion/pipes/free-flight sections from what I can see.

Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator is now available DRM free on GOG
15 Dec 2016 at 2:23 am UTC Likes: 2

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