Trying The Intel Vulkan Driver On Skylake With Dota 2 + Talos Principle

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Trying Out The Intel Vulkan Driver On Skylake With Dota 2 & Talos Principle (June 2016)

With the recent report that Intel's Vulkan Linux driver should now work with Dota 2, I was curious to test out the game -- and Talos Principle -- with the latest Mesa Git code that houses this open-source "Anvil" Vulkan driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Vulkan-Driver-June-2016

[haagch]

Did you disable the steam overlay for dota 2? That's where it crashes on ivy bridge for me. But then, ivy bridge is still not complete, so it could be yet another problem.

[andre30correia]

haswell do not start with mesa 12rc3

[johnc]

inb4 everyone criticizes nvidia for being a horrible company

we're overdue for a Linus middle finger image attachment

[devius]

Why would anyone, except for a stark raving mad fanboy, even mention nVidia in response to an Intel article that doesn't even mention nVidia or anything remotely related to nVidia?

[eydee]

inb4 everyone criticizes nvidia for being a horrible company

we're overdue for a Linus middle finger image attachment

Nvidia is not criticized for broken drivers but company politics. But you know this very well.

[dh04000]

Why would anyone, except for a stark raving mad fanboy, even mention nVidia in response to an Intel article that doesn't even mention nVidia or anything remotely related to nVidia?

The Phoronix forums. "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

[SaucyJack]

The Phoronix forums. "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

I thought that was wccftech.

[johnc]

Why would anyone, except for a stark raving mad fanboy, even mention nVidia in response to an Intel article that doesn't even mention nVidia or anything remotely related to nVidia?

Every nvidia article usually has a speckling of posts about how great AMD and Intel is... just figured we were due for the reverse.

[starshipeleven]

Every nvidia article usually has a speckling of posts about how great AMD and Intel is... just figured we were due for the reverse.

The reverse of "posts about how great AMD and Intel are in a NVIDIA thread" is "posts about how great NVIDIA is in an intel thread".

How in the name of zod does that translate to "people bashing NVIDIA in threads that have nothing to do with NVIDIA"?