Hollow Knight gets Vulkan on Linux in the new update out now

Played this game on Linux with a DS4. Latency is a grave issue with DS4 on Linux I wasn't able to solve. I'll play again on windows at a later date.

Sorry Linux, you need to create a STANDARD for how thinks works to ensure low latency at all times. Before that, I'll stick with windows that already STANDARDIZE that.

Played this game on Linux with a DS4. Latency is a grave issue with DS4 on Linux I wasn't able to solve. I'll play again on windows at a later date.

Sorry Linux, you need to create a STANDARD for how thinks works to ensure low latency at all times. Before that, I'll stick with windows that already STANDARDIZE that.

That's weird, I finished the entire game with a DS4 as well and I had no latency issue. Nor with any other games. Now I play with my DualSense controller and that works perfectly too.

Cool. There's been quite a bit of DLC released since I first played through this awesome game. Seems like a good time to give it a replay!

Played this game on Linux with a DS4. Latency is a grave issue with DS4 on Linux I wasn't able to solve. I'll play again on windows at a later date.

Sorry Linux, you need to create a STANDARD for how thinks works to ensure low latency at all times. Before that, I'll stick with windows that already STANDARDIZE that.

Finished the Game with Steam Controller over Bluetooth on my Linux Laptop. Okay, I'm still missing the "right" ending. But that definitely has nothing to do with Linux and latency. Except the latency in my brain. :)

Too bad it doesn't work for you.

Played this game on Linux with a DS4. Latency is a grave issue with DS4 on Linux I wasn't able to solve. I'll play again on windows at a later date.

Sorry Linux, you need to create a STANDARD for how thinks works to ensure low latency at all times. Before that, I'll stick with windows that already STANDARDIZE that.

That's weird, I finished the entire game with a DS4 as well and I had no latency issue. Nor with any other games. Now I play with my DualSense controller and that works perfectly too.

When compared to windows, DS4 on Linux is consistently worser. I don't know why. It just is.

Played this game on Linux with a DS4. Latency is a grave issue with DS4 on Linux I wasn't able to solve. I'll play again on windows at a later date.

Sorry Linux, you need to create a STANDARD for how thinks works to ensure low latency at all times. Before that, I'll stick with windows that already STANDARDIZE that.

You don't happen to use it via the old ds4drv "driver"?


Last edited by F.Ultra on 8 June 2021 at 12:49 am UTC

Played this game on Linux with a DS4. Latency is a grave issue with DS4 on Linux I wasn't able to solve. I'll play again on windows at a later date.

Sorry Linux, you need to create a STANDARD for how thinks works to ensure low latency at all times. Before that, I'll stick with windows that already STANDARDIZE that.

That's weird, I finished the entire game with a DS4 as well and I had no latency issue. Nor with any other games. Now I play with my DualSense controller and that works perfectly too.

When compared to windows, DS4 on Linux is consistently worser. I don't know why. It just is.

Like others, I've been using DS4 on Linux for years. No latency issues. You're the only one in this thread who seems to have a problem with it ma dude. And are bashing Linux with non-sensical arguments in the process. I smell a troll.

If you're serious about this, you can provide you can create a thread about it in the Tech forums (provide your technical details if you do so). I'm sure quite a few people here including me will do their best to help you.

To be honest, it already worked perfectly fine with OpenGL on my humble laptop with Intel integrated graphics. But it's still nice to see them adding the Vulkan support as Vulkan is the future, and it probably means the sequel will come with Vulkan on Linux by default.
I love Hollow Knight, and I'm really glad they are still supporting it with updates.

I'm another one without latency issues with a DS4. Managed to finish Cyber Shadow (a notorious rage quit game) with it, for example.

The only Bluetooth issue for me, is that the Xbone controller stopped working via BT after that security issue (with BT) was fixed. But it works fine with the original MS wireless adapter.

It has been 20 days since the update released. It still isn't on GOG.

Thumbs up for Team Cherry. They delivered everything what they promised and they just bundled the later content to the main game instead of splitting the gaming-community between those who do and those who do not have the DLC. Implementing Vulkan 5 years later is very much appreciated by me as a Linux gamer and it shows to me that this company cares about its customers. Generally speaking games function a lot better with Vulkan than with OpenGL on Linux if your graphics card is not too old (a 5700 XT here). The game played fine with OpenGL but every few hours there was that one lag which could be a problem if you had that rough boss fight or was at 1 health. I tested the update with Vulkan with MangoHud, it seems to work exactly as it should I certainly did not regret buying this game and I wholeheartedly recommend other gamers who like platform-games to buy Hollow Knight, on Linux and on Windows, there is plenty of content to get tenths of hours to hundreds of hours of gameplay, depending on how far you go. When Silksong finally comes out (no hurry, better good and late than too early) I will most certainly take a look at it.