Yes, There Is Vulkan Support In Doom

[verde]

The most important right now is to see Vulkan to be chosen more than DX12 from the game developers. If Vulkan become the game developers choice, porting will be much easier.

But I don't expect Linux to gain any more attention from game developers in the future. Windows are free (cracked or not. they are), security is not THAT problem anymore, Steam Machines failed and Linux community will always be a bunch of camps fighting each other.

[geearf]

Was Carmack involved in this? If not, should it be really considered a Doom game?

[theriddick]

The gameplay reminded me more of Quake3 and Q3Arena then original doom.

[Hammond]

Question: was Id cancelling Linux at the same time Activision took over Id? It seems that all Activision companies have a strict non Linux policy (think Blizzard WoW here).

[BreezeDM]

Question: was Id cancelling Linux at the same time Activision took over Id? It seems that all Activision companies have a strict non Linux policy (think Blizzard WoW here).

Carmack has long since abandoned us. It's sad because the first time I started using Linux was because I heard Quake ran faster on it.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/john_carmack_linux_is_not_the_right_platform_for_video_games.html

[blackiwid]

dont get it that game has nothing to do with linux, but this is a linux site right?

[axfelix]

The new Wolfenstein games use the same id engine which is native OpenGL and work great in Wine as a result, but it's a bit of a pain -- you need to make a 64-bit Wine prefix for these games, whereas 32-bit Wine is still more compatible 99% of the time (fewer bugs and almost all of the games that are 64-bit only are also DX11 only, and DX11 doesn't work in Wine yet so there's no need).

[zanny]

This isn't new, id has not supported Linux in a boxed release since 2004's Doom 3 and even dropped Linux from Quake Live after it had been out for like 8 years.

It should be considered no coincidence that the drop of Linux support (starting with Rage in 2011) coincided with id being bought by the incredibly Linux/freedom hostile Zenimax.

[yoshi314]

So they have a Vulkan version but no intention to support Linux / SteamOS.

Dafuq?

vulkan is becoming available on mobile, and is likely to become available on consoles. the engine from rage scaled pretty well down to mobile, so it's not as stupid goal as you might think.

[juno]

Great, they are being not user-friendly and not bringing the game for Linux. Why does it deserve a news on phoronix, anyway?

The game is said to be running quite well with wine (OpenGL beta was out). Will it be possible to run Windows Vulkan apps like this through wine, too in the near future?