SteamOS/Linux Requirements For Valve's Artifact Is Just A Vulkan Intel/AMD/NVIDIA GPU

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SteamOS/Linux Requirements For Valve's Artifact Is Just A Vulkan Intel/AMD/NVIDIA GPU

With just two weeks to go until Valve unleashes their latest original game, Artifact, it's now up for pre-order and there are also the system requirements published...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Artifact-System-Requirements

[remenic]

Will it run on Haswell GPUs?

[Michael]

Will it run on Haswell GPUs?

Probably not since the Haswell Vulkan support is in poor shape; is it even working these days? And that is pre HD Graphics 520 as shown on Windows/Mac requirements.

[microcode]

Probably not since the Haswell Vulkan support is in poor shape; is it even working these days? And that is pre HD Graphics 520 as shown on Windows/Mac requirements.

Idunno, I had a reasonable experience with Haswell ANV ~1 year ago, it certainly supports enough for a game like this (which I'm guessing is one of those fullscreen PC card games) unless it has regressed.

[adelpozoman]

I thought GCN 1.0 card required enabling some kernel parameters to enable AMDGPU and RADV

[BNieuwenhuizen]

I thought GCN 1.0 card required enabling some kernel parameters to enable AMDGPU and RADV

Presumably included in the vulkan capable part is that you have it set up that way.

[r1348]

I thought GCN 1.0 card required enabling some kernel parameters to enable AMDGPU and RADV

Yes basically you have to enable the amdgpu kernel driver (instead of radeon) and have a recent enough userspace (mesa, libdrm, xorg).
This however is unsupported and will uncover a whole new series of bugs, i.e. my Kaveri laptop hangs on suspend with the amdgpu driver.

[Adarion]

As far as I saw AMDGPU is still labeled "experimental" for iirc. GCN 1.1 and 1.0. Of course, even Kabini can run Vulkan, but I guess that game wouldn't have stellar performance there. Anyway, it's nice to see that someone just finally says: You just need a working Vulkan (or OpenGL x.y) implementation. This is what standards are for.

[Panda_Wrist]

Probably not since the Haswell Vulkan support is in poor shape; is it even working these days? And that is pre HD Graphics 520 as shown on Windows/Mac requirements.

Vulkan on haswell works great, at least for my use cases. MPV, Retroarch, PPSSPP, Dolphin. I don't know how well it works with native linux steam games. I do know Grandia II Anniversary edition works with dxvk. Haswell has a decent gpu, well at least the Iris Pro is decent. It's just sad that it is consider ancient now and no longer truly supported.

[humbug]

I think this will be the first new game launch where the application targets Vulkan across 3 platforms in some form.. Native Vulkan on windows and Linux, and MoltenVK on mac OSX.