It’s been some 18 months since Khronos announced the next-generation of OpenGL, and the final version of the spec, Vulkan, is finally ready for deployment. As of today, everything related to Vulkan — drivers, SDKs, and early software support is ready for launch. This is a change from Khronos’ usual practice, which is to announce a new version of the OpenGL API with vendor support following at a later ...
For years, game support on Linux has seriously lagged behind Windows, to the point that the OS was basically a non-option for anyone who wanted to game on a PC. In recent years, that’s begun to change, thanks to increased support for the OS via Valve and SteamOS. From the beginning, Valve claimed that it was possible to boost OpenGL performance over D3D in Windows, and it’s recently ...
When Valve announced that it would begin porting games to Linux as part of its SteamOS initiative, the move was greeted with skepticism in many quarters. Could Valve move the industry back towards cross-platform gaming when Windows had locked it down for so long? The answer clearly seems to be yes — the Linux side has crossed a significant milestone, with more than a thousand actual games available (including ...
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