It would be nice to see stable Vulkan support in 5.5 and above. Hopefully in time for the final version of System Shock considering that game needs some performance improvements.

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Quoting: Zelox

Quoting: AryvandaarWhat about using Vulkan?

Well the good thing is, Vulkan works on both windows and linux.
But Mac still needs there Metal.
And I also think, like Liam is saying in the article, vulkan probably came out when the game was far in development.

I don't usually like to plug non-free projects behind a paywall, but the MoltenVK people were at Siggraph this year to talk about their Vulkan port to Metal.

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Silly question, but the libvulkan1-dev [External Link] package on Ubuntu is the same one you used for Debian right?

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Who actually did the port? Was it a friend of the developer for which they offered a 6 pack of beer and hoped for the best?

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If only they used Ethan Lee and his FNA: https://fna-xna.github.io/download/ [External Link]

Some have suggested updating libraries in games with issues with the ones from his fnalibs.tar.bz2 archive.

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I'd love for someone to get this up and running, packaged, and put up on something like http://www.playdeb.net [External Link]

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Maybe you guys can help me. I have the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 16.04 installed and I currently use the 367 series of drivers for my Nvidia GTX 970. I also made sure libstdc++6:i386, libopenal1:i386, and libc6:i386 were installed via apt according to the documenation. But when I copied the game to my secondary hard drive (where I keep my games) and start the game via ./daikatana I get this:

----- Filesystem Initialization -----
Current search path:
----------
/home/brian/.local/share/./Daikatana/data
/mnt/LINEX/Games/brian/Daikatana/data
/mnt/LINEX/Games/brian/Daikatana/data/pak4.pak (86 files)
/mnt/LINEX/Games/brian/Daikatana/data/pak3.pak (782 files)
/mnt/LINEX/Games/brian/Daikatana/data/pak2.pak (83 files)
/mnt/LINEX/Games/brian/Daikatana/data/pak1.pak (11455 files)
-------------------------------------
12406 files in PAK files

execing daikatana.cfg
execing default_keys.cfg
Berkeley Sockets Initialized
Console initialized.
execing daikatana.cfg
execing default_keys.cfg
dedicated is write protected.
execing default_keys.cfg
------- Loading ref_gl.so -------
LoadLibrary("ref_gl.so") failed Failed loading ref_gl.so: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Is this something I need to symlink with the libGL version of my Nvidia drivers or something? Everything else seems to be setup besides this. Thanks!

EDIT: I had to also install the libxrender1:i386 and libltdl7:i386 packages to get the game running without errors. I should be good now. :D

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Getting the GOG version of a game is always the best way for these types of workarounds as they are DRM free and you can easily download the .exe as-is for your GOG account. No Steam run times or extra stuff added to the executable.

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Has anyone tried the Python bindings from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyVulkan [External Link]?

I'm a big fan of Python, but if I am doing something serious with Vulkan, maybe C is still the way to go with it being low level.

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I picked it up on Humble Bundle (DRM free download and Steam key) today after waiting a while for the port. I also registered the game on Steam in GNU/Linux to hopefully send some money towards Cheese''s way for the port. Thanks for helping in getting it out! :D

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