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NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan
11 Jan 2017 at 4:27 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: ShmerlVulkano is easier to use than raw Vulkan: https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano [External Link]
Yeah, but I don't think game devs will switch to Rust just to use it. Anyway, the more the better. There's never a single approach that works best for everybody.

Some already might. Rust can remove a lot of pains that exist in C++ despite all the latest advancement in the language. The only thing that can slow down such adoption would be middleware. Tons of stuff exists in C++ for gaming engines to use, and so far there is no interop with Rust (or with any other language for that matter really). Libraries in C are better in this sense - you can use them from Rust. SDL is a good example.

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Some thoughts on Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the real-time tactics game
11 Jan 2017 at 7:20 am UTC

Quoting: aqeelizIs there any chance it will run on Intel card? :(

You can test the demo before buying: https://www.gog.com/game/shadow_tactics_demo [External Link]

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NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan
11 Jan 2017 at 5:26 am UTC

Vulkano is easier to use than raw Vulkan: https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano [External Link]

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NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan
10 Jan 2017 at 11:14 pm UTC

Sounds good. We need more middleware like that.

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Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi
10 Jan 2017 at 8:49 am UTC

Well, turn it off you can. But it sounds close to minimum requirements.

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Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi
10 Jan 2017 at 8:41 am UTC

Quoting: buenaventuraGranted, my hardware is not particularly good (laptop with quad core 2.4ghz, 8gb RAM), this is my GPU:
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] [1002:9851] (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

It's GCN 1.1 I hear, but clearly not very good (1GB VRAM it says on the sticker).

Witcher 2 is pretty demanding. So no surprise it doesn't perform well on your GPU. You surely need to upgrade.

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Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
10 Jan 2017 at 6:42 am UTC Likes: 1

I suppose Valve intend to support Mesa officially, not sure why they wouldn't want to, especially when hiring developers to work on it.

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Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
10 Jan 2017 at 5:29 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: CreakOn the other hand, only Nvidia and Ubuntu are officially supported.

And that's nonsense. Developers should support Mesa officially.

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Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
10 Jan 2017 at 3:09 am UTC

May be we should also make a wiki page with (32-bit) games affected by large XFS partition (aka broken LFS) bug?

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Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
10 Jan 2017 at 3:08 am UTC

Quoting: jsa1983Any chance offending games may be reported through other channels other than tweeter?

Add them to the wiki, they can keep track of it.

Quoting: boltronicsDid Shadow Warrior have a mouse cursor rendering bug under Mesa? Or was that just the proprietary drivers? Can't remember - would have to check.

It works fine with radeonsi / Mesa 13.0.2.

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