Fancy playing Quake with the Vulkan API? Now you can

People at id still use Linux post-Carmack, huh? Hmmm. Not that it means much, but it is interesting to note.

Quoting: SslaxxPeople at id still use Linux post-Carmack, huh? Hmmm. Not that it means much, but it is interesting to note.

Well, no. As pointed out, he didn't do the Linux side of it.

Quoting: SslaxxPeople at id still use Linux post-Carmack, huh? Hmmm. Not that it means much, but it is interesting to note.

The article states "a friend did that for him." Gneiting did the Vulkan part. The Linux friend could be this gentleman if the github changelog is anything to go by.


Last edited by tuubi on 25 July 2016 at 7:30 pm UTC

Can someone explain how to get this running?

I'd love for someone to get this up and running, packaged, and put up on something like http://www.playdeb.net

So anyone know which source files are supposed to have the Vulkan bits?

Quoting: KristianSo anyone know which source files are supposed to have the Vulkan bits?

Vulkan API naming convention for functions is a "vk" prefix followed by a capital letter.

All source files containing at least one matching function can be listed with

grep -r "vk[A-Z]+*" * | sed -nre "s@(^.*):.*@\1@p" | uniq


Last edited by sub on 25 July 2016 at 9:39 pm UTC

I can only test it on my Haswell notebook, but it seems the warning

QuoteVulkan Initialization
WARNING: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

should be taken seriously. :D
At least it quits with

QuoteQUAKE ERROR: Couldn't create Vulkan device

I managed to get it working on my system, with the nvidia-367 drivers (that break NVENC in OBS, sadly), but I can't, for the life of me, get Vsync to disable so I can benchmark it. :p

If you adjust any of the video settings in-game and try to save it, it segfaults, but you *can* get it to pick up the normal quakespasm command line options for e.g. setting your window size.

Oh, and forcing fullscreen also segfaults.

No combination of 'vid_vsync 0' in various config files including autoexec.cfg, or even as '+vid_vsync 0' on the command line gets it to stop capping itself.

It does run, though, if you specify -width and -height.

After you've checked it out from git, check out the Quake/Makefile and look at the different options. Assume for every 'USE_THIS_THING' that you want to set to '1', you need to look for the 'libthing' and 'libthing-dev' (or your distro's equivalents) and be sure they're installed as dependencies first. If you try to compile it then and it complains about a missing header file, that's probably the thing-dev you need. :)

If anyone cracks how to disable vsync properly for benchmarking though, let me know. :/

Totally making a package out of this for SteamOS. drool