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Latest Comments by Zappor
The big SteamOS update that drops AMDGPU-PRO in favour of Mesa has left beta
6 Jun 2017 at 9:22 am UTC

I guess SteamOS uses RADV now then? Did SteamOS have Vulkan support before?

Destinations & Dota VR Hub are now available on Linux
22 Feb 2017 at 12:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

What about OSVR support?

Mesa now has a patch to enable a shader cache for radeonsi (AMD)
24 Jan 2017 at 6:13 pm UTC

Hmm, I don't think this was something to write about yet...

Some thoughts on switching from Ubuntu to Antergos for Linux gaming
18 Jan 2017 at 8:48 pm UTC Likes: 11

I think Ubuntu Gnome is still very nice and stable. No problems with Pulseaudio here...

ARK: Survival Evolved plans to use Vulkan for Linux this year
2 Jan 2017 at 4:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

Lol, right after DX12 for Windows then? :-)

Ubuntu now has a community-built PPA for stable versions of Mesa
8 Dec 2016 at 12:32 pm UTC Likes: 1

I think Unity is really outdated and poorly maintained, but I like Ubuntu as a core OS a lot and I'm currently running Ubuntu Gnome. Xubuntu should be nice also...

What one game would blow your mind if it came to Linux & SteamOS?
1 Dec 2016 at 5:27 pm UTC Likes: 2

Yeah Doom would be awesome!

My thought was Path of Exile!

AMD's radeonsi driver is really close to having full OpenGL 4.4 support, with OpenGL 4.5 already done
7 Oct 2016 at 8:39 am UTC Likes: 6

Feral even fixes things directly in Mesa! https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e33f31d61f5e9019f8b0bac0378dfb8fd1147421 [External Link]

Quoting: lordheavyAnd radeon vulkan support just got merged :D
Non conformant though, but the seem to fix things damn fast!