This keeps happening to me, I keep writing about something and a day later it's here

Lelouch vi Brittania commands you; write about Doom 2016,Skyrim and Witcher 3!

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Quoting: TheRiddickI'd say Feral has been working on a Vulkan wrapper pretty well, otherwise we would have seen this on Windows already (normally such a thing comes out first).

I thought it ran pretty decent at 4k on my 980ti before, so this will be awesome. But honestly the game that needs Vulkan the most atm is Deus Ex, I have been holding out buying that until news of better performance hits! heres hoping..

The reason we're not seeing this on Windows is simple: That is Feral's exclusive work for Linux , main developer is not involved. Windows version will remain as it is.

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This looks so fun,i added it to wishlist

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What a day:O

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Quoting: sarmadI am guessing the bigger part of the performance boost is coming from the OpenGL version not being as optimized as it should. There is no way Vulkan (or any API for that matter) can make this much difference. However, this is probably an indication that it's easier to optimize the code under Vulkan than it is under OpenGL, which by itself is enough reason to introduce Vulkan. Good job Feral, and Khronos too.

Your guess is wrong.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/mad-max-meets-vulkan-in-a-new-fully-public-beta-for-linux-benchmarks-and-opengl-vs-vulkan-comparisons.9345/comment_id=89759

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Quoting: Egonaut

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.

I disagree a lot here. Yes it's great to see new games out but I want to have good performance in already released games too.

I've had a lot of performance problems with Mad Max and other Feral ports. It's great to be able to play it now with decent performance. I would really like to see Vulkan in other already released Feral ports too, even I doubt we will see much of it.

Yes and you can't convince people to migrate Linux when game performances are mostly bad compared to Windows.

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Quoting: g000hWell, I still have Mad Max installed and go back to it for little sessions here and there. Really looking forward to giving the Vulkan Beta a try. As mentioned earlier in other comments, my CPU is holding back my OpenGL performance (AMD FX, not Intel) so Vulkan's multi-threaded boost should be very welcome.

For me, the next game that Feral could improve with Vulkan support is "Hitman". That game wasn't performing sufficiently well for me to play at 4K, but with a Vulkan boost I think it probably will be. Also, I've only played a few hours of Hitman so far (Lots left to do.)

I think at 4k resulotion your gain will be less than 1080p,because as the resolution goes up games become more gpu loaded and gpu bound.

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Quoting: KohriasUnfortunately it freezes my system. I run a Radeon RX 480 with Mesa 17.0.2, llvm 4.0 and Linux 4.9.

Is radv not supported yet or do I need to compile the latest mesa git?

This is from their announcement:

MESA (RADV/ANV)
Requires latest Mesa 17.1-dev (as of this post) compiled with Vulkan support. On Ubuntu this can be installed using the Padoka ppa found at https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-di [External Link]…/+archive/ubuntu/mesa. INTEL ANV requires Broadwell or Skylake, but Haswell is currently unsupported.

You need 17.1. You can get it by unstable branch,link is below.

https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa [External Link]

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Whoa,i was expecting that Vulkan update to Deus Ex MD but Feral done good job what i understand from your charts :woot:

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Take your guesses; mine is 2019 :D

That is the problem; they're releasing games when the heat of game goes off. People (via dual boot or Wine) already deveours the game and mostly they don't need to buy again when it is released.

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