The Talos Principle, Croteam's fantastic first-person puzzle game has a fresh beta available to test with some major changes.
It includes massive changes under the hood, including a much more up to date version of their Serious Engine. This brings with it 64bit by default, OpenGL removed in favour of Vulkan along with "various other optimizations, fixes, and tweaks that will make your gameplay experience better without you knowing why that is".
I did a few benchmarks this morning just to see how it's working now and unsurprisingly the Linux version remains incredibly smooth. With the performance options cranked to Ultra, rendering at 1080p and MSAA x4 on it was hitting an average of 112 FPS.
To access it, all you need to do is select the "publicbeta" branch on Steam. You can find it by right clicking the game in your Steam library, going to Properties and hit the Beta tab of the UI. From there, it's in the dropdown box:
See more about the beta here.
Hat tip to mphuZ.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
And... do play Talos Principle if you're into puzzling.
officernice Feb 23, 2019
Quoting: GuestI always wondered why they still had 32bit as the default, good to see that this has been changed now to 64bit and especially Vulkan... I won't miss the OpenGL support at all! :-) The update works great, no issues so far!
I am still downloading the beta on my desktop. The old version should be kept as an option because it does work on my laptop with intel HD 4400 and Vulkan does not work there (simple benchmarks do work bun not anything like Talos). What I think really nobody needs is the 32bit nonsense.
Might try it out a little though!
Quoting: GuestI tried Serious Sam 2017 Fusion as well and there OpenGL support is gone already, but maybe it is available in the previous version. If there is an issue with ANV it is probably the best to write a bug report (if not done yet).
I am not talking about any bug with the game. It is just the way it is with vulkan on intel HD 4400. It is very clear that vulkan support is only experimental on that gpu. I am just saying that they simply just not completely delete that as an option. They do keep even older legacy and a lot less useful options there, so I am not really concerned.
no_information_here Feb 23, 2019
Quoting: EikeCroteam has a way of working that surprises me again and again. Wonder how they can afford touching old games (even if it's mostly engine changes). Happy they can, of course.It seems they use their old games as a test-bed for developing their new engine. I am impressed at how well they pull it off, and we get "seriously" updated games like Talos!
And... do play Talos Principle if you're into puzzling.
Now, as much as I like SS, I really wish they would do some kind of Talos 2.
Quoting: edoSo this means they dropped Mac os x support, since they mention they now only support vulkan and dx12
They didn’t mention anything about dropping Mac support. They added metal support to the engine in 2017.
http://www.croteam.com/we-decide-to-implement-ios-support/
Besides, the Mac depots got updated with everything else.
https://steamdb.info/app/257510/history/
Last edited by Jmsnz on 24 February 2019 at 6:19 am UTC
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