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DXVK for Direct3D 11 over Vulkan in Wine has a new 0.60 release

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2018

Summer heat got you parched? Why not wet your whistle with some Wine as DXVK has a fresh release out today.

Vulkan
Wine

A small but nice update on Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation and Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2018

We've been waiting quite a while for any real news on the Linux port of Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation. While we still don't know when, we do know it's still happening.

War Thunder currently has a Vulkan renderer under development that you can try out

By BTRE, 14 Jun 2018

The free-to-play vehicular combat MMO has shown hints that Vulkan support has a work in progress for some time now. It’s still not officially supported but, with some tinkering, you can see how it’s coming along for yourself.

Mavericks is a Battle Royale game with unique open-world mechanics that plans Linux support with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2018

Mavericks seems to be a rather interesting shooter, one that will have both an open world mode and a Battle Royale mode and it turns out it plans Linux support too.

Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia is now officially available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jun 2018

Feral Interactive have once again delivered for strategy games fans, with the release today of Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia for Linux.

DXVK 0.54 released with improved AMD GPU performance, plus DXUP for D3D10 is a thing

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jun 2018

The awesome DXVK project for Vulkan D3D11 in Wine has another fresh release out and it's a pretty good one. There's also another project called DXUP that can be used with DXVK.

Vulkan
Wine

Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia releases for Linux on Thursday, will use Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2018

Feral Interactive have announced today that Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia will officially release for Linux on Thursday, June 7th. It will be another port powered by the Vulkan API.

OpenGL to be deprecated in the next macOS release, could mean interesting things for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

With news doing the rounds about the latest update to macOS, it turns out they're finally admitting they're doing nothing with their support of OpenGL and it's to be deprecated.

Misc
Vulkan

The Vulkanised 2018 event videos are now online, including the one from Feral Interactive

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

For those wanting to view them, the Vulkanised 2018 event videos are now online including one with a Feral Interactive developer talking about porting with Vulkan.

PPSSPP emulator now uses Vulkan by default, OpenGL now multithreaded

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

The PSP emulator, PPSSPP, recently had a pretty big release which now defaults to Vulkan as the main renderer.

DXVK for Direct3D 11 with Vulkan in Wine has another update with 0.53

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2018

DXVK advances so quickly it's really quite incredible, it had a release only a few days ago and here we are with another.

Vulkan
Wine

DXVK for running Direct3D 11 with Vulkan in Wine updated again

By Liam Dawe, 24 May 2018

DXVK, the exciting Wine project to run Direct3D 11 games and applications with Vulkan was updated yesterday.

Vulkan
Wine

vkd3d for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan in Wine has released the first stable version

By Liam Dawe, 23 May 2018

Today, the Wine developers officially announced that vkd3d for translating Direct3D 12 to Vulkan in Wine has reached 1.0.

Vulkan
Wine

Vulkan layer for Direct3D 11 & Wine 'DXVK' updated with fixes for Dark Souls 3, Overwatch & more

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2018

DXVK is such an incredible project to bring Direct3D 11 support to Wine using Vulkan and another exciting release is now out.

Vulkan
Wine

Khronos are doing another Vulkan technical event in the UK this month

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2018

For those interested in Vulkan development, later this month on the 22nd of May, Khronos is running another "Vulkanised" event.

Vulkan

Unity 2018.1 stable is out, as is a Unity 2018.2 beta with Vulkan support in the Editor & High-DPI scaling

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2018

With Unity 2018.1 released and out in the wild, the Unity developers aren't sitting idle as they've already pushed out a Unity 2018.2 beta with some fun changes.

A fresh DXVK release is out with fixes for NVIDIA, RADV and multiple game improvements

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2018

DXVK, the awesome project to implement a Vulkan-based compatibility layer for Direct3D 11 for use with Wine has advanced further with a fresh release.

Vulkan
Wine

Jupiter Hell, the modern turn-based sci-fi roguelike is going with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2018

Jupiter Hell, the modern turn-based sci-fi roguelike from developer ChaosForge is moving over to using Vulkan.

The Vulkan-based compatibility layer for D3D 11 and Wine 'DXVK' has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, 14 Apr 2018

For those keen to keep up with the exciting progress of the Vulkan-based compatibility layer for D3D 11 and Wine 'DXVK', you will be pleased to know a fresh release is now out.