The Vulkan API spec has been updated again, now at its 34th revision since release

Just need some games now! {looks toward feral/aspry)

Quoting: pete910Just need some games now! {looks toward feral/aspry)

Please not only Windows ports - I'd like to see some well optimized native-cross-platform developed and optimized games as well. Of course a well optimized vulkan port will run better than OpenGL 4 - still it will take them a lot of time to get used to Vulkan. The first ports won't offer us such a great performance gain as many people expect - at least it's very unlikely.

It would be beneficial to Linux gaming, if developers actually would use it. While we are waiting for a feasibility study from Aspyr Civilization 6 on Windows got a DX12 renderer, yay. This pretty much says that Firaxis/2K just doesn't care.


Last edited by TobiSGD on 18 November 2016 at 4:40 pm UTC

Savior of all pc ecosystem, not only Linux, DX12 in many games are worst than DX11, Battlefield 1 for example.

Even if developers went Windows only, they are too comfortable with DirectX and their tools. They usually update an existing engine instead of creating a new one per game and that engine is based off of the tried and true DirectX 11. Some also think Vulkan is too new and/or obscure and even if they consider it, it will be years before any implementation.

Oh and the video card situation is interesting right now. In Vulkan and DirectX 12 games, the AMD cards beat out the Nvidia ones pretty easy at the same price range. Part of why I haven't upgraded from a GTX 970 right now is the hope of better support for DirectX 12/Vulkan in the Nvidia video cards after the 1000 series. There is no point at this moment since most games are still DirectX 11 and that is where the performance is right now in Nvidia's camp.


Last edited by t3g on 18 November 2016 at 5:20 pm UTC

When are they going to add multi-GPU support?

My single most anticipated game for Vulkan support is the new Unreal Tournament.

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Quoting: pete910Just need some games now! {looks toward feral/aspry)

Please not only Windows ports - I'd like to see some well optimized native-cross-platform developed and optimized games as well. Of course a well optimized vulkan port will run better than OpenGL 4 - still it will take them a lot of time to get used to Vulkan. The first ports won't offer us such a great performance gain as many people expect - at least it's very unlikely.

Have to agree that something natively developed from the start is what we should be pushing for. Almost all the people who have so far touted the performance gains from Vulkan have had engines designed with DX11 in mind and tried previously to kludge OpenGL into it.
The only game I can think of that might be more representative of moving to Vulkan is Doom, which of course isn't available for GNU/Linux, but does come from a codebase more friendly towards OpenGL. Even then, they had access to special extensions made just for them, so it's not really something that can be considered a true comparison.

By this point, developers really should be using libraries that do away with 99.99% of platform specifics, and be cross-platform developing from the start. It makes sense even as a basic sanity check. Not that I think sanity prevails as much as it should, of course.

It's been mentioned hereabouts before, but the prospects would be better if Apple had gone with Vulkan instead of turning their noses up and rolling their own (Metal) as usual. At least Android is using Vulkan, which is huge although I'm not sure how much mobile development overlaps with the PC space.

Feral would make a killing if they managed to get a contract to natively port Doom..

I really wish Bethesda would give the keys to their games for porting to Linux. Many of them already run well under Wine but its just too clunky to run mods and related programs via Wine so a actual port would be nice for those games!

SkyrimSE and FO4 being the latest, but might require some actual work to port. I think Bethesda is openly ANTI Linux in a BIG way unfortunately... real sad...