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The open source Vulkan driver for AMD can now run Dota 2
26 Aug 2016 at 4:37 pm UTC
Yep, been very impressed with how fast they've put together the radv driver. With the uncertainty of how long it would be for AMD to open source their Vulkan driver (and the possibility they couldn't fully because of IP).. This is awesome news for those of us with AMD graphics.

Unfortunately I don't think *my* GPU is supported in the AMDGPU kernel though, so I haven't tried it out yet. Hopefully that won't be much longer.

We just need the Freesync stuff to land and I'm hoping they open source WattMan.
Ashes of the Singularity developers say Vulkan for their game is pretty far along, Linux after
24 Aug 2016 at 1:12 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: wolfyrionWell I am afraid that is not good news :(

Everyone was so hype for Vulkan and everyone expected miracles like to be easy to create or port games and so on but unfortunately so far not many companies manage to create or port a game with Vulkan API.

Only DOOM(not on Linux) and Talos Principle which is not working well , at my pc is just crashing... We didnt even see any new indie game with Vulkan API.

I really dont know what to expect with Vulkan API it has been so many months and no progress. :S:
How long has the full specification been out? 6 months. It's not long enough to expect polished implementations of Vulkan being released. Talos Vulkan support is in BETA, being wrote by 1 guy at Croteam.. Doom had a full team working on OpenGL for years and then they focused on Vulkan, which is why they were able to push it out so fast.

Ashes is a disappointment as far as Vulkan is concerned though. They had a working Mantle version in early development and then at some point switched focus solely to DX12 not caring about what came of Mantle -> Vulkan. At this point I don't really care if they bring the game to Linux or not.

What I am interested in is Epic getting their Vulkan support in full swing for Unreal Engined titles and what Crytek can produce along with the guys making Star Citizen and not forgetting Unity bring support for Vulkan. Once we have a good amount of highly used game engines with mature Vulkan support, we will naturally start to see more games using Vulkan. But these things take time, I used to work in game development for an Indie studio and trust me, the QA and bug fixing process can really drag on at times. Just look at Rocket League, they've had help from Valve and still no Linux version months after it was promised.
Arch users have a kernel available that will allow AMDGPU and the PRO driver on older cards
19 Aug 2016 at 11:05 pm UTC
What about R9 270 support? I believe its the 7850 rebrand?

What are the benefits of using this Kernel? Kthxta
No Man's Sky has been shown to work rather well in Wine on Linux
17 Aug 2016 at 2:47 am UTC Likes: 2
I hope its just a matter of time before a Linux version is put out. Its nice to see developers choosing OGL over DX, maybe a Vulkan update will arrive in the future once they've nailed the bugs.

Not sure if its my kinda game but would love to try it. But I'm like you guys 'No Tux. No Bux'
The Signal From Tölva is the next game from Sir, You Are Being Hunted developers and Linux is likely
4 Aug 2016 at 12:55 am UTC Likes: 1
This looks good, hopefully they're using an engine that makes it easy to bring to Linux, preferably with Vulkan support!! I'm sad at the lack of more AAA titles still on Linux, but if we get a good amount of high quality indie games coming through to fill the void, it'll keep me happy.
Headlander, the new game from Double Fine Productions will not come to Linux
28 Jul 2016 at 3:18 am UTC Likes: 4
I don't get it.. If they're going to the effort of using Metal, why not just jump straight to Vulkan. There is a project called MoltenVK which will make Vulkan work nicely with Metal.
The Talos Principle updated with more Vulkan stability and performance
27 Jul 2016 at 11:07 pm UTC
Quoting: STiATNeed some rainy days. Have to get onwards in this game. I didn't think I'd like the game, ended up loving it.
I need to get back to and finish Talos too. I think I got pretty far about 9 months ago and stopped for whatever reason. It's a good game and I'm glad they're using it as a test bench for Vulkan as it's something that needed a boost in Linux (atleast on the AMD side of things).
Dave Airlie has been working on an AMD Vulkan driver
24 Jul 2016 at 2:38 pm UTC Likes: 1
AMD's lack of updates during the Catalyst driver drove me insane, especially when using newer distros. Everytime xserver got updated it broke my system. Never ever had that issue with Mesa drivers. I really wanted to test Vulkan out, but they haven't brought support to my GPU in Linux yet anyway. So I will wait for this open Vulkan driver and see how things progress.

But I need to make a choice in 6 months time. Does my new computer stay team red with improving open source drivers, or do I go to the dark side and get a GTX 1070.
Black Mesa developer shoots down anti-Linux troll, confirms Linux version is in progress
8 Jul 2016 at 3:02 pm UTC
Since I've gone Linux full time, I try not to buy windows only games even the ones that promise Linux support. But I love what these guys were doing and they did say they intended to support Linux in the future so I decided to buy the game while it was in early access as a way of supporting them.

I still haven't played it (even on Wine) as I'm hoping they finish the game and bring it to Linux.
LIMBO is free on Steam for 24 hours, grab it while you can
22 Jun 2016 at 9:27 pm UTC
Good little puzzle game. Although maybe a bit dark in style for some people as I found out by reading the Steam store reviews. Planning on playing it some more later.