Graphics and Games: NVIDIA, Orbital/Vulkan, Cataclysm and System Shock 3
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NVIDIA Shows Off Quake II Path-Traced Using Vulkan RTX/Ray-Tracing
ne of the demos NVIDIA is showing off this week at their GPU Technology Conference is Quake II being path-traced using a Vulkan port of the game and adapted to handle VK_NV_ray_tracing functionality paired with the latest GeForce RTX GPUs.
Q2VKPT is a path-traced version of Quake II started by a former NVIDIA intern and is rendered using Vulkan and does support Linux.
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Orbital: A PlayStation 4 Emulator That Is Emulating The PS4's AMD GPU Using Vulkan
Orbital is an open-source project providing a virtualization-based PlayStation 4 emulator that is still in its early stages but what interests us is its technical details including the use of Vulkan/SPIR-V.
Orbital leverages QEMU and other open-source components. At this stage it's not running any PS4 games but is able to boot into safe mode on PS4 5.xx kernels.
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Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead, a free and open source turn-based survival game had a huge update
It occurred to me today, that no one here at GOL seems to have ever written about the free and open source turn-based survival game Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead.
Okay, so what is it? A classic roguelike with a survival theme, set in a post-apocalyptic procedurally generated world.
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System Shock 3 may see Linux support, OtherSide still working on Underworld Ascendant for Linux
OtherSide Entertainment have teased out a new short video of System Shock 3 and it may see Linux support.
Not to be confused with the crowdfunded System Shock reboot that Nightdive Studios are currently working on. System Shock 3 is being made with some of the original team behind the first two games as well like Warren Spector, so it should remain faithful to the series while being a rather nice upgrade in visuals.
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