Check out this AMD video talking about Vulkan (and DirectX12)

For non-BFG Doom3, there's also 'dhewm3'. Check out: https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3

Quoting: t3gFor the user who made the Doom 3 comments, there is always rbdoom3bfg available in he Ubuntu 16.04 repos or playdeb.net. There were talks about Vulkan for this project, but it's been on hold: https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG/issues/317

Actually Valve approached Bethesda about Doom 3 BFG Edition in order to have it as a launch title on Steam for Linux. Bethesda declined. Shame..

Some info about plans to open source the Vulkan driver, and amdgpu dkms module:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4qfy9d/i_work_at_amd_the_time_has_come_to_ama_about/d4smlbt

* https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/4qffn1/amd_radeon_rx_480_on_linux_benchamarks/d4sokbi

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4pxt3o/what_you_need_to_do_to_your_linux_system_if_you/d4p0bjn


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Quoting: ShmerlSome info about plans to open source the Vulkan driver, and amdgpu dkms module:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4qfy9d/i_work_at_amd_the_time_has_come_to_ama_about/d4smlbt

* https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/4qffn1/amd_radeon_rx_480_on_linux_benchamarks/d4sokbi

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4pxt3o/what_you_need_to_do_to_your_linux_system_if_you/d4p0bjn

Thank you for these links as I am currently in the process of graduating from Mint to pure Debian and I'm trying to figure out how to get AMDGPU instead of default RadeonSI.

Quoting: AnxiousInfusionThank you for these links as I am currently in the process of graduating from Mint to pure Debian and I'm trying to figure out how to get AMDGPU instead of default RadeonSI.

You probably mean readeon kernel driver. It is indeed superseded by amdgpu. RadeonSI is FOSS OpenGL implementation for AMD (based on Gallium3D). It works in combination with amdgpu kernel driver.

Currently things seem to be messy. Either various highly manual installation, or using amdgpu-pro package from AMD, which installs amdgpu through dkms module, but also installs closed OpenGL and Vulkan implementations.

From what I understood, that dkms module requires special compatibility layer (KCL), which won't be accepted upstream. So it will remain part of that dkms package, but now it's bundled with all other stuff. They plan to make it all more modular, but it didn't happen yet.


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Quoting: InspectorGidgetI actually had this argument in the linux_gaming reddit Discord channel. Gutigen claimed Vulkan would basically change everything and mean more ports, i disagreed and I got banned.

I have a RES tag for gutigen on reddit "Master of Idiocy". He has absolutely no Idea about anything. One of the stupidest people I have ever seen on the Internet.. and that means a lot!