War Thunder [Official Site], the free to play cross-platform MMO may gain Vulkan support in "the near future" the developers have said.
In their "Answers from developers!" post was this question (I've cropped the quotes to the relevent bits):
"Will there be Vulcan АPI […]"
In reply, the developers said this:
Vulcan is very interesting to us and we support its development (link). We hope that it might replace OpenGL in the Linux and Windows versions in the near future, and possibly Direct X 9.0. That depends on whether graphics card manufacturers support it. […]
I think people will forever be spelling Vulkan incorrectly.
It's good news to see more developers considering it. Not only can it potentially improve performance, but it's an open API and good news for Linux gaming if more developers use it. War Thunder already support Linux, but the more, the better.
Thanks for the tip in our Telegram Group, Uriel!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Schattenspiegel Sep 2, 2017
That would only leave 5.1/7.1 surround sound on my wish list then.
Quoting: SchattenspiegelFor the Linux version it would be awesome - we might actually hope to get properly working anti aliasing then instead of fx-screenblur-aa.
That would only leave 5.1/7.1 surround sound on my wish list then.
If your GPU can handle it, you can change the backgroundScale:r=1 parameter in config.blk to a number higher than 1 for true multisampling. My GTX1080 could handle 2x oversampling at 1920x1200 (so, downsample from 3840x2400) with still stable +60fps on otherwise generally very high or maxed settings. And it looks fantastic.
You might have to make the the config.blk file read only afterwards before launching the game - as it's an unsupported value, the game will try to revert it, otherwise.
Last edited by Teal on 2 September 2017 at 7:04 pm UTC
TheRiddick Sep 3, 2017
The game in my testing is not particularly fast with AMD hardware with very high settings, so I think Vulkan could definitely fix those nasty FPS drops at the very least.
Last edited by TheRiddick on 3 September 2017 at 7:11 am UTC
Quoting: Schattenspiegel[...] You might have to make the the config.blk file read only afterwards before launching the game - as it's an unsupported value, the game will try to revert it, otherwise.
Good time to point out the art of
chattr +i file Unless you've gone through a more elaborate user/group management setup for Steam, it has the same file access rights you do on game files. If you make it read only (e.g. with chmod) then Steam could just overwrite that. That's where chattr (change file attributes, see also lsattr, list attributes). When the file is made immutable not even root can modify, delete, rename, symlink or hardlink it.
There are some caveats w/r/t root access, but if Steam has root access on your machine, you have bigger problems than protecting a game config :S:
Hopefully that helps anyone who needs to lock down a file. (Remember '+' adds the attribute, and '-' removes it)
TheRiddick Sep 4, 2017
Quoting: pedrojmartmI play the game on Windows and Linux, but with linux i have a 30-40% performance lost. So, i hope vulkan can reduce the FPS gap between Windows and Linux version.Yep, same, However you will also notice on the Linux/OpenGL render it has ALLOT more low fps dips, like there will be areas where it hits 20fps (even looking in certain directions) or something for no reason.
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