Quoting: BillNyeTheBlackGuy

Quoting: ShmerlDRM-free release?

UPDATE: Ah, I didn't realize its owned by WB. Low chances of it coming out DRM-free then.

Lol. A new AAA game with a DRM free release? No chance in this age unless it's from CDP themselves.

This is good news, although I rather have Just Cause 3 instead. I put a lot of hours into JC2.

Times are changing. The meaning of AAA becomes less relevant. Most of the games I actually care about are released DRM-free already (inXile, Larian, Obsidian, now OtherSide and etc.).

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DRM-free release?

UPDATE: Ah, I didn't realize its owned by WB. Low chances of it coming out DRM-free then.

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Did anyone address the issue of one thread bottleneck? According to this diagram [External Link], Vulkan doesn't offer the ability to submit GPU commands from multiple threads and requires one dedicated thread to do it (Mantle and DX12 allow it).

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What is the earliest Intel chip that supports OpenGL ES 3.1?

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Quoting: SkullyI only buy old games from them. If they want to sell me newer titles, they would need to also supply a steam when possible.
I am unsure why they don't. Humble bundle does it with alot of games. You get a drm free download aswell as a steam key.
Best of both worlds.

Why would they supply anything for a competing service? If you need Steam, buy on Steam. Humble do it because they have some deal with Steam going on. And for the reference most of the games they sell are simply Steam resales. GOG do nothing of that sort because they compete with Steam directly. So I don't expect them to do it.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: ShmerlMantle isn't open - AMD never published the API as far as I know. It's proprietary.

According to bridgman on phoronix [External Link] it looks like AMD might have given Mantle to Khronos to make glNext out of it. And that would explain why they already have something to show at the GDC.

Yes, that's what I expect as well, and assume that's the reason why AMD didn't open Mantle itself. But the fact remains, Mantle proper isn't open. Which if the above guess is correct isn't relevant since it will open up in Vulkan / glnext.

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Mantle isn't open - AMD never published the API as far as I know. It's proprietary.

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I think Vulkan is simply a tribute to AMD's work in Mantle. I.e. open mantle = volcano, thus Vulkan. AMD planned to open Mantle and it looks like it will happen in glnext / Vulkan. It's a good name. I guess they use a spelling with "k" because other spellings were already taken for trademarks.

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Looks interesting, with visuals having Bioshock feel to them. And it's available on GOG now too. I'll wishlist it until the Linux version will come out.

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Batman games on Linux sounds interesting, but doubtful. At least WB made their appearance on GOG, so may be they'll release them DRM-free as well.

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