Quoting: HollowSoldierOfficial patch notes:

"Marketing strategy didn't work. F...k."

It still performs better than the GL version, just the difference isn't as it seemed to be (more than 100% in some cases) but anyway it is nice to get rid of the CPU bottlenecking for the future ports.

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Quoting: sigzdoesn't perform very well at all on a 770gtx with latest drivers (378.13), worst experience than opengl, framerate is really unstable and low.

These drivers are actually the last "stable" drivers. Driver 375.39 has some vulkan patches that significantly improve the performance (was having same issues like you do)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo, lots of people wanting to see this game or that game that were already ported to Linux in turn get ported to Vulkan for performance. For me, this is more a proof of concept; it demonstrates that it will be very good if future ports go to Vulkan rather than OpenGL. Generally I'd rather see Feral's energies go to new ports rather than makeovers for old ports.
Like, say Feral over a period of time can do 10 projects. Rather than have 10 games already on Linux that ran a little slow (on current hardware) run faster, I'd rather see 10 new games that were not already on Linux run fast in the first place, because then instead of 10 fast games we'd have 10 not-so-fast games + 10 (probably newer) fast games. 20 games is better than 10 games.
I also suspect Feral can't stay in business if it spends too much of its energy re-porting old games for little sales benefit.

Depends on how much effort it takes them to bring 1 game that is already ported to Linux to Vulkan API :) If it is relatively easy to do they might bring more of the older games to Vulkan and if it is hard they will focus on new games more. However I honestly think that when they get a good grip on Vulkan it will be MUCH easier to port all DX9, 11, OpenGL and DX12 games to Vulkan and (hopefully) we will see even more ports from these great guys!

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Cheers to the Vulkan and the future of PC gaming! :D

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I'd really like to see CS:GO get a Vulkan update, that would be nice, but I really doubt it since it is an old game I think still writen in source 1 engine?

Its performance on Linux isn't as smooth as it should be, it is in fps but frame times don't feel smooth and there seems to be a layer of microlag on top of the game and for so reflex based fps games all the latency and responsivness matters much.

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Eventhough I am a HUGE linux supporter I do have a problem with that. Because it literally takes away what is awesome that I can use my games across all OSs as I like which is really awesome Steam feature and I wouldn't want to be stuck with only WIndows or Linux versions and it would be a mess, since there might be situations where I had to use other OSs or even Mac... there should be other ways to get porters paid, not charging seperately for the 2 platforms and it is on Valve and developers to find a more acceptable and proper way to make sure that Feral and other great companies get paid. So I am totally against locking things down, I'm always for openness, that's just my opinion.

And I'm primarily a consumer and then Linux fan. I like Linux for being so open and so awesome to its users. If that ever changes my opinion would probably change too.

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Yes unfortunately Valve really dissapointed with Steam Machines. SteamOS would need a huge rework and some time and money invested to provide fully-featured comparable-to-consoles experience in terms of stability and that is where it would really have a huge potential. Only providing entertaining things like YouTube, Netflix, Twitch into the BPM and improving their web browser with resolution reworks it would be huge deal already, the game support and performance itself is actually quite nice and even better than the Console standards are...

It's great to hear from Aspyr Media again and also to hear that they have not abandoned and are not planning to abandon our platform for further development, really great guys!

Would definitely LOVE to see more Classics bringing to Linux like Star Wars Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast, Jedi Knight III Jedi Academy, Lego Titles!

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That's really awesome! I really like these guys, they are awesome developers.

I feel nostalgic about Serious Sam 1 and 2 and I recently bought SS3. Playing these on Vulkan sounds like a really promising experience!

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Some huge performance drops for me unfortunately on GTX970 :( The benchmark is better but in actual game it keeps stuttering much...

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This might not look big for us who used canary release before, but it was so hard to actually find it. This will mean a lot when users see that it has true cross-platform support instead of digging around for betas, unstable builds and similar. A lot of people didn't even know that canary release was out there so this means a lot to users who are new to linux or are considering switching.

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