I could never play Serious Sam 3 in opengl in the past. The performance was just too poor. So with Vulkan support I might finally be able to enjoy the game.

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Quoting: Leopard*snip*

It should work with Padoka and Oibaf I'm pretty sure. From what I read Padoka has Vulkan and bleeding edge stuff and Oibaf is more stable.

You won't find gallium-nine on official wine because they refuse to have it upstream.

I personally don't use Ubuntu/Mint, but I run on the latest mesa-git and wine-staging with gallium-nine support and its very good.

Have fun.

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Quoting: LeopardIs there anyone knows how can we enable Gallium under native wine?Custom wine version is really needed?

You need Padoka PPA if using Ubuntu based distro. https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa [External Link]

I'm already using it but in the wine there is only enable csmt,not gallium.I'm using Wine Staging,latest version.Provided by Wine Ubuntu Ppa

My link didn't work properly... I think ive fixed it this time... But goto it. And read down to where it mentions gallium-nine.. They recommend using wine off another ppa. https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa [External Link]

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Quoting: LeopardIs there anyone knows how can we enable Gallium under native wine?Custom wine version is really needed?

You need Padoka PPA if using Ubuntu based distro. https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa [External Link]

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I saw this posted on photonic a few weeks back.
Dave is funny. Although I think he rubs some in the community the wrong way. Haha. Chuckled a little at his dig at their website.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT@Feral: Will it be vulkan? Are there any vulkan ports to be announcet right now? :)

I asked on Facebook. They said its opengl. Vulkan is coming later in the year, it wasn't clear if they are planning Vulkan for an unreleased game or for titles like Hitman and Dues Ex that have a DX12 back end already.

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I can't afford much, but it's my way of supporting the gaming effort on Linux. If the site does well and attracts new users to Linux, this is going to have a snowball effect; more games, better drivers, better support.

So a small amount goes a long way. Great site Liam, I visit it daily. Keep up the good work.

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I was trying to finish my collection of 90's puzzle/adventure games about 10 years ago and a friend of mine recommended Full Throttle, I had never heard of it. Anyway, I found a classic boxed version and grabbed a copy of ebay. Fantastic game :D. These remasters look too clean in my mind somehow. I think the low res blockyness has it's charm.

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Quoting: RussianNeuroMancerI don't think this is good idea. Wouldn't it will be better to ask game developers fix their engine?

I also pretty sure someday they will decide to update their engine, probably require higher OpenGL version, discover that Mesa for some reason report 3.2 to the game while support 4.5 or 4.6, they could make another workaround, instead of fixing thing right way, or straight declare Mesa as unsupported driver.

They will update their engine with Vulkan.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/ark-survival-evolved-plans-to-use-vulkan-for-linux-this-year.8831

True, but like others have said, this is unlikely to happen. It's hard enough to get some developers to port to Linux in the first place, even if they're using OpenGL. Even less likely that they are willing to make changes for one set of drivers. The end users experience should be priority now as it looks like Valve are pushing to replace the pro driver stack with the open source on SteamOS. We want users to have a flawless experience, so they come back and support the community. Not having to hunt around for bug fixes/hacks.

Having said that, if the developers were ever to fully support mesa properly. They could easily submit a patch to revert the "hack", this is the beauty of open source.

It looks like the priority is going to be native titles on Steam, but I hope some workarounds are added for Rage, Doom and other id titles that need it to get OpenGL through wine running properly on mesa.

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Love the fact Feral is still supporting their games after release. I have the game already but won't be playing it till I upgrade my GPU. But this is nice to see. With Vulkan ports coming this year I can't wait to see what games they bring to Linux.

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