FFW 35: New Vulkan Beta Driver for NVidia, and a Pair of New Games Out

FFW 35.1- New NVIDIA Vulkan Developer Beta Driver

What’s news with NVIDIA and Vulkan?

· Fixed Vulkan Video not working on NVIDIA Ada family of GPUs.
· Fixed the disk cache to handle UTF-8 paths.
· Improved robustness of vkCreatePipelineCache with invalid data.
· Fixed corruption that may occur when rendering with a previously resolved depth image.
· Fixed rare SPIR-V control flow bug that may result in infinite loop.
· Fixed the coherency order not being consistent between atomic loads and atomic stores.

Again, this is primarily of concern for developers, not for typical gamers, but I thought it worthy of note here. The latest for regular gamers is still the beta driver from last month (530.30.02). No idea when that will achieve stable status though.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/nvidia-vulkan-beta-driver-5254713-out-now/

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FFW 35.2: OpenHV Out Now

This is based on the same open source engine as OpenRA, but is an entirely different game. This one intrigues me because kind of like with the old Westwood titles, resources do not automatically appear in your coffers, they need to be transported from the mining towers you create when they become full of ore, and the transports can be destroyed, so they need to be guarded so that you do not suffer interruptions in resource gathering. I may download and try this one instead of Dune this week, y’all.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/foss-strategy-game-openhv-gets-a-release-two-years-in-the-making/

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FFW 35.3: What’s Last Epoch?

Last Epoch is an Action-RPG which combines time travel, dungeon crawling, and heavily customizable characters (sounds like any other modern RPG, to me). The artwork reminds me of Path of Exile, which I used to play quite a bit, but haven’t been able to mess with for a number of months, simply due to being busy with more important things. I am intrigued by this one, though I don’t think I’ll try it as my laptop is just too old right now, and it is not free to play. That would be a ridiculously hard sell with the wife right now. Take a look at the promo video at the link below or on Steam, if you are interested.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/counter-strike-2-is-reportedly-a-real-thing-and-coming-soon/

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