Unreal Engine 4.17 released with expanded Vulkan support
Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 4.17 which comes with some nice improvements to their handling of Vulkan.
Category: Vulkan
Lots of changes could be coming to the Serious Sam games on the Vulkan Fusion engine
Serious Sam Fusion is Croteam's Vulkan-powered game engine that covers many Serious Sam games and it seems they have some plans.
Epic Games looking to make Vulkan the default API for Linux games in Unreal Engine
Epic Games have done a talk at SIGGRAPH 2017 and it turns out they're looking to make Vulkan the default API for exported Linux games.
Ashes of the Singularity looking at Vulkan in August, paves the way for Linux support
Ashes of the Singularity is aiming to have Vulkan support in August, which paves the way for Linux support in future.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is now available on the Fusion 2017 engine with Vulkan
I think a lot of people were waiting on this one. Serious Sam 3: BFE is now available in the Fusion 2017 engine with Vulkan!
Ballistic Overkill has an opt-in beta with performance fixes (update: now out of beta)
Ballistic Overkill, the fun and cheap online FPS that recently added Vulkan support now has an opt-in beta for you to try. The developers say it's aimed at improving performance. UPDATE: It's now out of Beta.
GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin drops D3D12 in favour of Vulkan
The awesome GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin has officially dropped support for the D3D12 API in favour of going all-in with Vulkan.
The Ashes of the Singularity Linux request topic has more requests than the game has reviews
In an impressive show of support, the post from the Stardock CEO asking for Ashes of the Singularity Linux version requests has more posts than reviews on Steam.
Breaking Point, an Arma 3 mod is moving to Unreal Engine 4 with Kickstarter, Linux & Vulkan planned
Breaking Point is an online survival game that blends survival realism with the gameplay of a modern military shooter. It was previously an Arma 3 mod, but now they're moving to Unreal Engine 4 with a Kickstarter and they plan Linux support.
The videos from the Khronos UK Vulkan event are now online
For those who've been waiting to watch the videos from the UK Vulkan event, you will be pleased to know that the videos are now up on Youtube. This includes the videos featuring Feral Interactive and Croteam.
The slides for the Vulkan presentations from Feral Interactive, Croteam and more are now up
Recently Feral Interactive, Croteam and others spoke at an event in the UK about Vulkan. The slides are now available, but the videos aren't up yet.
Stardock CEO asking to see interest in Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation on Linux with Vulkan
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation will come to Linux if Stardock see enough requests for it. The CEO of Stardock has requested to see how much interest there is.
Feral announce that Dawn of War III will use both OpenGL and Vulkan
Feral Interactive have just announced some exciting news! The Linux port of Dawn of War III will come with OpenGL as the default, but like with Mad Max you will be able to check a box to enable Vulkan!
The Khronos UK Vulkan talk is tomorrow with Feral, Croteam and more & you watch online
Tomorrow is the Khronos UK 'Vulkanised!' talk about Vulkan from developers like Feral Interactive, Croteam and others. You will be able to watch it online.
Serious Sam Fusion 2017 now has benchmark modes and more, here's some quick tests
Serious Sam Fusion 2017 has been updated to include some benchmark modes along with some other useful changes. I've done some quick tests.
Ballistic Overkill updated as promised with Vulkan, but it's now completely broken (UPDATED with temp fix)
Confirmed by others as well, the latest Ballistic Overkill that adds in Vulkan and many other things, has completely broken the Linux version. UPDATED with a temp fix.
Mesa 17.0.6 released with AMD Polaris 12 support in the 'radv' Vulkan driver
Mesa 17.0.6 is the latest bug-fix release for the 17.0 series, but it also comes with AMD Polaris 12 support for the 'radv' Vulkan driver that has been back-ported.
Mesa 17.1 has now been released
The latest release of the open-source graphics drivers has now been made available following the final release candidate. There's plenty of new things to love in this release.
Mesa 17.1 RC4 released, final version expected in approximately 24 hours
Emil Velikov has announced the availability of Mesa 17.1 RC4 for some final testing, with the final release of Mesa 17.1 due in approximately 24 hours.
AMD Vulkan driver 'radv' is now 'effectively a pass' for conformance
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD hardware 'radv' now gets 'effectively a pass' for conformance. An awesome milestone for AMD fans.
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