Phoronix: Unigine Heaven For Linux May Come Next Week
We have received confirmation from Unigine Corp that with Catalyst 9.12 for Linux now released with its proper OpenGL 3.2 support and bug-fixes, this paves the way for Unigine Heaven to be released possibly as soon as next week. We previously reported that drivers were the hold-up in Unigine Corp not releasing their Heaven demo that offers heavenly graphics because no drivers at the time could handle their advanced OpenGL 3.2 renderer that comes complete with hardware tessellation support for the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series, even on Linux. The latest 195.xx NVIDIA Linux driver should end up working with the latest Unigine improvements too, but without any hardware tessellation support until their GeForce GT300 "Fermi" series is released that will offer such support...
We have received confirmation from Unigine Corp that with Catalyst 9.12 for Linux now released with its proper OpenGL 3.2 support and bug-fixes, this paves the way for Unigine Heaven to be released possibly as soon as next week. We previously reported that drivers were the hold-up in Unigine Corp not releasing their Heaven demo that offers heavenly graphics because no drivers at the time could handle their advanced OpenGL 3.2 renderer that comes complete with hardware tessellation support for the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series, even on Linux. The latest 195.xx NVIDIA Linux driver should end up working with the latest Unigine improvements too, but without any hardware tessellation support until their GeForce GT300 "Fermi" series is released that will offer such support...
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