Valve Pushes Out Big Steam Beta Update, Linux Changes & Steam Remote Play

[nomadewolf]

Congratulations to Valve for keeping to invest in Linux!

[Templar82]

OK, so that was about 20GB of updates. Holy monkey.

Wow you weren't kidding

[d3coder]

> Fixed a bug where copying/moving files bigger than 2GB would fail with an I/O error
Oh yeah!

[smitty3268]

Zink supports OpenGL 3.0 already, as far as I know.

It's also running at half the speed of native GL.

[R41N3R]

Emulation* of OpenGL in Vulkan would most likely slow the game down due to overhead unless the emulator and Vulkan driver are far more clever at optimization than existing OpenGL drivers, so the only benefit would be for GPUs with only a Vulkan implementation. If you need or want to try such a thing, there is [Zink], but I don't believe it has advanced past OpenGL 2.1 yet.
*more like a compatibility or translation layer, like Wine is
[Zink]: <https://www.collabora.com/news-and-b...tation-vulkan/>

Zink supports OpenGL 3.0 already, as far as I know.

[toojays]

Hope that those network changes fixes solve a 3/4 years old bug where disconnecting and reconnecting NetworkManager forces you to restart Steam. Example: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/1518.

From this comment by Paul Fenwick on a similar bug I've been watching, it sounds like it should.

[Xaero_Vincent]

I'd like to play Left4Dead2 on Vulkan, does Valve have any plans to transition at least the older OpenGL games to an OpenGL emulation over Vulkan?

You could try playing the Windows version in Wine with D9VK.

[chinoto]

I'd like to play Left4Dead2 on Vulkan, does Valve have any plans to transition at least the older OpenGL games to an OpenGL emulation over Vulkan?

Emulation* of OpenGL in Vulkan would most likely slow the game down due to overhead unless the emulator and Vulkan driver are far more clever at optimization than existing OpenGL drivers, so the only benefit would be for GPUs with only a Vulkan implementation. If you need or want to try such a thing, there is [Zink], but I don't believe it has advanced past OpenGL 2.1 yet.
*more like a compatibility or translation layer, like Wine is
[Zink]: <https://www.collabora.com/news-and-b...tation-vulkan/>

[mv.gavrilov]

> On the Linux front specifically, there is a fix that was causing Steam to crash randomly when launching games,
But crashing games when they launched from XFS partition they don't fix yet.

[ThoreauHD]

OK, so that was about 20GB of updates. Holy monkey. I hope it does something useful.