Both The Talos Principle and Serious Sam 3 should be getting updates with the Vulkan API, and Serious Sam 4 will also use it.
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The same developer confirmed earlier than Serious Sam 4 will use Vulkan, but it won't drop OpenGL, which is nice.
No word on a release date for SS4, and general details are very scarce so don't expect to hear more any time soon.
They did share back in September that people who helped work on The Talos Principle were also now working on Serious Sam 4, so that's good news.
Will be fun to see difference in performance with Talos on Vulkan vs OpenGL. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
AlenLSS4 certainly will not use the same version of engine as Talos does. It will use a _much_ improved version. Exact details will be revealed when SS4 is officially presented.
Talos will support Vulkan on Launch. SS3 not yet, but maybe later.
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The same developer confirmed earlier than Serious Sam 4 will use Vulkan, but it won't drop OpenGL, which is nice.
No word on a release date for SS4, and general details are very scarce so don't expect to hear more any time soon.
They did share back in September that people who helped work on The Talos Principle were also now working on Serious Sam 4, so that's good news.
Will be fun to see difference in performance with Talos on Vulkan vs OpenGL. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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"Talos will support Vulkan on Launch"
SS4 on Vulkan seems obvious, or at least one would hope. But a Talos update to Vulkan is even better news! I am excited to see the difference.
SS4 on Vulkan seems obvious, or at least one would hope. But a Talos update to Vulkan is even better news! I am excited to see the difference.
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I think this is seriously important.
I did not expect many games to use Vulkan, even less to announce this that early.
Good sign that is.
I did not expect many games to use Vulkan, even less to announce this that early.
Good sign that is.
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linux_gamer Jan 26, 2016
For me Talos and Serious Sam 3: BFE had a quite low performance. Talos went well as there is very few time depending action, but it was not possible to play a FPS like SS3, so I preferred to get a refund.
Quoting: adolsonBut a Talos update to Vulkan is even better news! I am excited to see the difference.Would be great no question, but who has'nt bought Talos already? From the financial POV it will be much better to focus on the performance of the next releases.
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Quoting: linuxgamerFor me Talos and Serious Sam 3: BFE had a quite low performance. Talos went well as there is very few time depending action, but it was not possible to play a FPS like SS3, so I preferred to get a refund
Exactly - minus the refund.
It will be very interesting to see if Vulkan can make these games, in particular SS3, run on a 7950 from zero to hero.
However, it's not clear 7950 will get Vulkan on Linux at all, AFAIK. :/
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it'll be interesting to see the benchmark difference between the 2 games for sure. it's going to be funny to see a lot better framerate on the newer game vise the older one at least until SS3 gets an update if it does.
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psycho_driver Jan 26, 2016
Quoting: linuxgamerFor me Talos and Serious Sam 3: BFE had a quite low performance. Talos went well as there is very few time depending action, but it was not possible to play a FPS like SS3, so I preferred to get a refund.
Quoting: adolsonBut a Talos update to Vulkan is even better news! I am excited to see the difference.Would be great no question, but who has'nt bought Talos already? From the financial POV it will be much better to focus on the performance of the next releases.
I'm guessing an AMD thang or you play on a potato. I went through SS3 back on my Athlon II and GTX 460 and it ran beautifully even then. To me it seems like one of the better natively optimized engines.
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Quoting: subI was thinking that my rig was not good enough for SS3 so I assumed I will be able to play it after hardware upgrade. Was the game playable for someone?Quoting: linuxgamerFor me Talos and Serious Sam 3: BFE had a quite low performance. Talos went well as there is very few time depending action, but it was not possible to play a FPS like SS3, so I preferred to get a refund
Exactly - minus the refund.
Anyway, it's very very good to see developers on Vulkan board :).
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Arehandoro Jan 26, 2016
Good news!
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linux_gamer Jan 26, 2016
Quoting: psychodriverQuoting: linuxgamerFor me Talos and Serious Sam 3: BFE had a quite low performance. Talos went well as there is very few time depending action, but it was not possible to play a FPS like SS3, so I preferred to get a refund.
Quoting: adolsonBut a Talos update to Vulkan is even better news! I am excited to see the difference.Would be great no question, but who has'nt bought Talos already? From the financial POV it will be much better to focus on the performance of the next releases.
I'm guessing an AMD thang or you play on a potato. I went through SS3 back on my Athlon II and GTX 460 and it ran beautifully even then. To me it seems like one of the better natively optimized engines.
Nvidia 650M, the card is able to do SRIV on medium at 25fps, other games are smoother and the graphics of SS3 aren't even close to Bioshock Infinite, Spec Ops and many more.
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