Mesa 18.0 released, further advancing Linux graphics drivers
Mesa 18.0 has been officially released today after a bit of a wait, further advancing Linux graphics drivers.
Category: Vulkan
DXVK, a Vulkan-based compatibility layer for Direct3D 11 for use with Wine
One Wine related project I completely missed writing anything about is DXVK, a Vulkan-based compatibility layer for Direct3D 11 for use with Wine.
Doom (2016) could have been on Linux, id Software made a Linux version sound easy to do
Doom 2016 supports Vulkan and at GDC this year developers from id Software talked a little about it, including how easy a Linux version could have been.
AMD has announced 'Radeon-Rays' an open source ray tracing SDK using Vulkan
Ray tracing seems to be all the rage at GDC this year, so AMD has announced Radeon-Rays, an open source ray tracing SDK.
Khronos Group has released Vulkan API version 1.1 today, new NVIDIA beta driver & AMD driver available
For those interested, Khronos Group has today announced the release of the Vulkan API version 1.1 and NVIDIA already have a beta driver ready.
Godot Engine to work on Vulkan support
Speaking on their official blog, Godot Engine developer Juan Linietsky writes about how the open source game engine will be getting Vulkan API support.
Vulkan can now run on Mac as MoltenVK is now open source
Not exactly Linux news, but still interesting since Vulkan is what will likely power many Linux games in future and having Vulkan on Mac could result in easier ports to Linux.
Rise of the Tomb Raider announced for Linux, port from Feral Interactive
Many asked, now Feral Interactive have answered. Rise of the Tomb Raider is officially on the way to Linux!
Gorgeous space sim 'Helium Rain' updated with Vulkan, skirmish battle mode and more
Helium Rain is a gorgeous space sim and the developers have been really supportive of Linux, this update is a real juicy one too.
LunarG releases 'DevSim' a tool for developers to test their Vulkan API implementation in various configurations
LunarG has now officially rolled out 'DevSim', a rather fancy tool for developers to test their Vulkan games and applications against many different configurations.
Feral has patched Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III for Linux to fix Vulkan on NVIDIA 384
For those who noticed Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III was a bit broken on the NVIDIA 384 driver series, Feral has now fixed it.
VK9, the project to get Direct3D 9 applications to run with Vulkan reached another milestone
In late December last year, the developer of the VK9 project emailed us about hitting another milestone with their project to get Direct3D 9 applications to run with Vulkan.
The Talos Principle going Fusion, Croteam dropping OpenGL & Serious Sam 4 still coming
A bit of Croteam news to start the day with and there's multiple interesting items to go over in regards to their games.
Some reflections on radv, the first open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs
With recent commits that fix bugs and allow newer Vega cards to pass tests for official conformance, development for radv continues apace. It’s a good time to look back and talk about just how far the driver has come in such a short time.
AMD have now officially open-sourced their 'AMDVLK' Linux Vulkan driver
Typical really, the day after I do a review of 2017 and mention how AMD announced they would finally release it, but still didn't, they then go and do it today.
Want to see F1 2017 on Linux before release? Feral will be livestreaming on Wednesday
If you're excited about F1 2017 coming to Linux with Vulkan here's a chance to get a glimpse of it before the release on Thursday.
F1 2017 is officially coming to Linux, releasing November 2nd from Feral Interactive
After a few leaks, it’s now official! F1 2017 is coming to Linux and Feral Interactive are porting it. The plan is to release it on November 2nd (Thursday next week!).
Space shooter 'ASTROKILL' updated with official Linux support
Looks like the Beta of ASTROKILL went well, as the developer just pushed out a big update and with it comes official Linux support.
SDL 2.0.6 released, introduces Vulkan support
The cross-platform development library has seen the release of its latest version. Quite a few exciting changes this time around, including support for Vulkan and more types of gamepads.
Apocalypse: The Game, another survival game will come to Linux with Vulkan support
Apocalypse: The Game, another survival game built with Unity will have Linux support. It's built by one developer and it will have Vulkan support.
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