Quoting: omer666At the time I was a Mac user, they released several UbiSoft games on the Mac. Why not on Linux?

Including AC II and Brotherhood. My guess is that they weren't satisfied with the 'yield' on the Mac App Store, so they didn't bother to port anything further.

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Quoting: omer666Other interpretation:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyh1Va_mYWI [External Link]

It's Guitar Hero Live!!! :P

That's supposed to be based on a real incident where Black Sabbath ordered a Stonehenge stage design, but it was so huge they couldn't bring it on the stage.

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Let's see... Stonehenge... Stonehenge, where the demons dwell, where the banshees live and they do live well...

There's your hint. 'Banshee'.

It's Mass Effect 3

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You know what would be a great game under Vulkan?

A really good Star Trek RPG. ;)

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Phoronix just posted some initial benchmarks.

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Quoting: wvstolzingI wonder whether there'll be any improvement with respect to texture pop-in, which is awful right now on my system (gtx970, 361.28 drivers).

Disable level streaming. Your HDD is slow for some reason probably.

Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't make any difference.

I let the game itself select 'optimal settings'; but something is definitely wrong. I can tweak the settings by hand, though there are so many that I don't know where to start. Also the game doesn't use more than ~900MB VRAM, when a lot more is available.

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I wonder whether there'll be any improvement with respect to texture pop-in, which is awful right now on my system (gtx970, 361.28 drivers).

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Quoting: tony1abLess talk about vulkan and more games using it!

Patience, young one!

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How is this a confirmation, though? It looks like they're just joking around.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeGranted with us begging and pleading for Linux ports, I could only imagine how hard it'd be begging for it if there were Commodore, Atari, Apple, Microsoft and Linux to write for. Then again I wonder how many devs would just support the other ones since Windows is still and historically such crap? :D

Though back in those days developers didn't have as many high-level/cross platform tools that they have today; a lot of stuff had to be coded directly in assembly -- amounting to a new project from the ground up for each 'port'.

Given that it took IBM PC compatibles more than half a decade after Amiga's demise to catch up with its multimedia capabilities, it's fun to speculate as to what would have happened if Commodore wasn't such a criminally mismanaged company, etc. Though without the ascendance of intel, especially the i386, it's hard to tell how the free software world would have developed, or if it could develop at all.

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