Historical strategy game Old World switches to Vulkan for Linux / Steam Deck

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/historical-strategy-game-old-world-switches-to-vulkan-for-linux-steam-deck/

Does anyone know what Vulkan dynamic rendering + multiview into a cubemap looks like? I can't find any examples anywhere and what I have (just setting VkRenderingInfo::viewMask) doesn't seem to be working

Boosts for visibility appreciated!
#gamedev #graphics #3dgraphics #vulkan #gpu #rendering

NEWS FOR #HAIKU: #NVIDIA GPU support coming soon!

Developer @X512 has successfully ported Nvidia kernel drivers to Haiku. The driver will support Turing+ GPUs and already includes Vulkan integration via Mesa's NVK.

Initial tests are working and show potential for future uses, including AI acceleration with llama.cpp.

A major step forward for the Haiku ecosystem and hardware compatibility!

#OpenSource #GPU #Vulkan #Driver #AlternativeOS

https://www.desktoponfire.com/haikuos/software/742/haiku-gets-nvidia-gpu-support-a-significant-step-forward/

#Google wants to make #Android a top tier gaming OS, investing in #Vulkan to reach that goal.

https://www.androidauthority.com/porting-pc-games-to-android-3534575/

Starting to think that API likes Vulkan are on purpose limited

Testing a RDNA3 RX 7600 XT, it's supposed to have 128KB of LDS per WGP. They say in the ISA, "A single work-group may allocate up to 64kB of LDS space". Also later, if the dispatch is done in WGP Mode (but I can't tell how to achieve this in Vulkan), it can access the full 128KB.

Now, Vulkan reports only 32KB accessible! Why so little? I don't think ROCm is limited for instance

Anybody from AMD around?

dxvk-nvap 0.9 is out with support for #NVIDIA Reflex for #Vulkan titles, support for reporting driver setting (DRS) to titles, support for permanently setting NGX debug registry settings, improved (non-) SLI detection, and various bug fixes https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Ahead of GDC, Google introduces new developer tools to simplify PC game porting to Android and enhances Vulkan support for better gaming performance! #Google #Android #GameDev #PCGaming #Vulkan #GDC2025 #TechNews #GamePorting #Innovation #DeveloperTools

Android: Vulkan predefinito, ADPF ottimizzato e giochi PC in arrivo
#ADPF #Android #API #DiscoElysium #DREDGE #Gaming #Google #GooglePlayConsole #Grafica #MediaTek #MobileGaming #Notizie #Novità #PCGaming #Porting #Prestazioni #Sviluppatori #TechNews #Tecnologia #Unity #Vulkan

https://www.ceotech.it/android-vulkan-predefinito-adpf-ottimizzato-e-giochi-pc-in-arrivo/

AMDVLK (#AMD Open-Source #Vulkan Driver) 2025.Q1.3 is out now with Navi48 support https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/releases/tag/v-2025.Q1.3

Mesa 25.1 will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old Nouveau OpenGL driver for NVIDIA on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mesa-25-1-will-default-to-zink-nvk-instead-of-the-old-nouveau-opengl-driver-for-nvidia-on-linux/

Small update:

Added wasd controls to move around, eq keys to rotate. All smoothed by acceleration and inertia.

Icosahedron represents characters. 1 and 2 keys moves the camera to their position, and mouse wheel to zoom in and out, all smoothed by quad easing.

#gamedev #rust #vulkan

#phoronix did a post about #blender3d transition to #vulkan.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-Vulkan-Exciting-2025

They mention the work on GPU based subdivision. Today I was able to use GPU based subdivision on both Metal and Vulkan backend. Still in development.

Made possible by the #devfund !

Linux graphics people,
I've produced an example program that demonstrates the possible driver bug described in the image below
https://gitlab.com/amini-allight/radv-bug-demo
I only have access to AMD hardware so if anyone could try this on other hardware and see if it reproduces that would be greatly appreciated!

Boosts also appreciated for visibility
#gamedev #vulkan #graphics #gpu #linux

#KaleidoSaturday

I wanted to release the project files of my animations for a long time. Now you can play around with it, too!

project file:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/AdeptVeritatis/visuals/-/blob/main/mix003.json

video mixer app:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/AdeptVeritatis/pw-videomix

With a short tutorial in the following posts.

Graphics people,
I'm drawing instanced 2D text planes with Vulkan but something mysterious is happening. Using the first approach below all the text planes disappear when N > 7. This doesn't happen with the second approach. Nothing else is different between the two approaches.
What's going on here? Is this a driver bug or just something I'm not understanding?

Boosts appreciated for visibility!
#gamedev #vulkan #graphics #gpu

AMDVLK (#AMD #OpenSource #Vulkan Driver) 2025.Q1.2 is out now with support for Strix Halo laptops, improved support for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, improved support for GNOME’s Nautilus file manager, and other changes https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/releases/tag/v-2025.Q1.2

February brought big changes to #openSUSE Tumbleweed! #SELinux is now the default MAC for new installs, while #Mesa 25.0 adds #Vulkan 1.4 support. Plus, #KDE Plasma 6.3 enhances fractional scaling and drawing tablet settings. https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/27/tw-monthly-update-february/

Teste auf meinen Gaming PC gerade MangoHud, falls euch das nichts sagt den mir hat es auch nichts gesagt.

MangoHud ist eine Alternative zu Afterburner und eine Vulkan- und OpenGL-Überlagerung, mit der man FPS, Temperaturen, CPU/GPU-Auslastung und mehr überwachen kann. Funktoniert auch in Verbindung Steam .....

https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud