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The success of Stadia means more developers who are comfortable with Vulkan and linux as a platform. That should give us better ports and even more Vulkan first
by buttersbrian 6y ago
The success of Stadia means more developers who are comfortable with Vulkan and linux as a platform. That should give us better ports and even more Vulkan first titles.
That could lead to better driver support (at least from Nvidia :| ) on 'nix, and so on and so forth.
- gsich 6y agoAnd is it successful?
- manojlds 6y agoSuccess of Stadia? It's barely Presence of Stadia at this stage.
- buttersbrian 6y agoMeant is more hypothetically, not as if it is a current fact.
- doikor 6y agoWhen someone makes a game for Stadia they don't really care if it works on linux or Vulkan in general. All they care is that the game works on the custom hardware and drivers Google/AMD provides for Stadia. That is the only platform they will test that version on. (This is very similar to how console development happens. You have a fixed set of hardware so you just develop for that without a care for anything else really) Sure the distance is smaller then starting with the Windows or Xbox/Playstation versions but there is still a lot of work to get it to work on any random pc someone builds.
- buttersbrian 6y ago"All they care is that the game works on the custom hardware and drivers Google/AMD provides for Stadia." I understand, and agree. Exposure to Vulkan, Linux, and the related optimizations is helpful and I personally considering it a bonus and assume it will have downstream benefits (maybe im delusional) for gaming.
- pjmlp 6y agoThey are already comfortable with it thanks to Android NDK APIs, and you don't see those games coming to GNU/Linux.