It's getting close to the launch of Vulkan, I can feel it! Khronos are doing a webinar on February 18th at 9:00am PT (17:00 GMT).
About the webinar
What’s Vulkan all about? Learn more about this upcoming new graphics and compute API directly from Khronos, the people who have been creating it. In this 1-hour session, we will talk about the API, and also go into details about the Vulkan SDK from LunarG, and much more. We’ll of course end with a Q&A session, and a recording of the session will be available here.
Presenters
Neil Trevett: President of the Khronos Group
Karen Ghavam: Executive Director of LunarG
Standing by to answer questions
Tom Olson: Khronos Vulkan working group chair
Graham Sellers: Khronos Vulkan specification editor
Karl Schultz: SDK technical lead LunarG
Jon Ashburn: SDK technical lead LunarG
They state a video will be available afterwards too, which is nice as the timing is a little off for me. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
About the webinar
What’s Vulkan all about? Learn more about this upcoming new graphics and compute API directly from Khronos, the people who have been creating it. In this 1-hour session, we will talk about the API, and also go into details about the Vulkan SDK from LunarG, and much more. We’ll of course end with a Q&A session, and a recording of the session will be available here.
Presenters
Neil Trevett: President of the Khronos Group
Karen Ghavam: Executive Director of LunarG
Standing by to answer questions
Tom Olson: Khronos Vulkan working group chair
Graham Sellers: Khronos Vulkan specification editor
Karl Schultz: SDK technical lead LunarG
Jon Ashburn: SDK technical lead LunarG
They state a video will be available afterwards too, which is nice as the timing is a little off for me. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I am still waiting for this awesome graphics api :D
Do you know if Blizzard will support there Games for Linux because they are a member of the Khronos Group??
Do you know if Blizzard will support there Games for Linux because they are a member of the Khronos Group??
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BabaoWhisky Feb 10, 2016
Quoting: InvisibleI am still waiting for this awesome graphics api :D
Do you know if Blizzard will support there Games for Linux because they are a member of the Khronos Group??
They said not :
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/president-of-blizzard-responds-to-the-linux-petition-petition-owner-creates-childish-response.5080
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Quoting: berillionsQuoting: InvisibleI am still waiting for this awesome graphics api :D
Do you know if Blizzard will support there Games for Linux because they are a member of the Khronos Group??
They said not :
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/president-of-blizzard-responds-to-the-linux-petition-petition-owner-creates-childish-response.5080
Thx for the fast answer.
I really can't understand why this big Company are not supporting Linux. They can only benefit of us Linux users -.-
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Quoting: berillionsThat was one year ago, things might still change. If they start to use Vulkan they may reconsider.Quoting: InvisibleI am still waiting for this awesome graphics api :D
Do you know if Blizzard will support there Games for Linux because they are a member of the Khronos Group??
They said not :
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/president-of-blizzard-responds-to-the-linux-petition-petition-owner-creates-childish-response.5080
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tuxintuxedo Feb 10, 2016
Quoting: NyamiouUntil we Linux people are such a minority in their eyes, they won't change this. Not even with Vulkan in their hands.Quoting: berillionsThat was one year ago, things might still change. If they start to use Vulkan they may reconsider.Quoting: InvisibleI am still waiting for this awesome graphics api :D
Do you know if Blizzard will support there Games for Linux because they are a member of the Khronos Group??
They said not :
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/president-of-blizzard-responds-to-the-linux-petition-petition-owner-creates-childish-response.5080
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Quoting: InvisibleQuoting: berillionsQuoting: InvisibleI am still waiting for this awesome graphics api :D
Do you know if Blizzard will support there Games for Linux because they are a member of the Khronos Group??
They said not :
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/president-of-blizzard-responds-to-the-linux-petition-petition-owner-creates-childish-response.5080
Thx for the fast answer.
I really can't understand why this big Company are not supporting Linux. They can only benefit of us Linux users -.-
That's easy : major disruption of processes, and additional QA, testing and support costs that are not justified by the revenue. Linux native is still a tiny market for games, and will remain so until reasonable numbers of games-capable PCs ship with Linux rather than Windows by default. That may be never.
I am more concerned that the companies producing high quality games for Linux continue to do so, because I doubt that sales are particularly good. I take the view that I will monitor, but ignore game companies that don't produce Linux games, instead buying anything resembling AAA games that are ported to Linux.
Many of these are games I would likely not have bought if I was still buying in the larger-choice Windows game market, but now I have found new games/series to like, I find I am less bothered that some of my old favourites are not available.
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cRaZy-bisCuiT Feb 10, 2016
If you have Mac ports up and running for many years already it might not be to hard. Blizzard games have had a OpenGL render path for allmost all the time of there very existence. Still support is an issue due to the fact there're so many different distributions. Still they might focus only on Ubuntu LTS or SteamOS.
Last edited by cRaZy-bisCuiT on 10 February 2016 at 11:54 pm UTC
Last edited by cRaZy-bisCuiT on 10 February 2016 at 11:54 pm UTC
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You will never find a Blizzard game on Steam. They have their own store and ecosystem.
Also Blizzard doesn't support OS X anymore despite being massive Apple fanboys from day 1. They released games for Mac, before having Apple stuff was considered cool (1999). Overwatch for example has no Mac client. I think Macs are just too much a pain in the ass with their crippled 3D graphics stack. It's either crippled OpenGL or their weird Metal API.
Also Blizzard doesn't support OS X anymore despite being massive Apple fanboys from day 1. They released games for Mac, before having Apple stuff was considered cool (1999). Overwatch for example has no Mac client. I think Macs are just too much a pain in the ass with their crippled 3D graphics stack. It's either crippled OpenGL or their weird Metal API.
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Quoting: blackout24... or their weird Metal API.Metal's not that weird. It would definitely be better for everyone (including Apple) if they went with Vulkan instead, but as an API Metal seems just fine.
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Quoting: blackout24You will never find a Blizzard game on Steam. They have their own store and ecosystem.
Also Blizzard doesn't support OS X anymore despite being massive Apple fanboys from day 1. They released games for Mac, before having Apple stuff was considered cool (1999). Overwatch for example has no Mac client. I think Macs are just too much a pain in the ass with their crippled 3D graphics stack. It's either crippled OpenGL or their weird Metal API.
Blizzard absolutely support OSX. They've doubled the size of their mac team in the last year, and are porting WoW and Startcraft2 to Metal. Overwatch isn't coming... Yet. So they seem all onboard for metal.
Last edited by Jmsnz on 12 February 2016 at 5:40 am UTC
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