Games: ProtonDB, SuperTuxKart, DXVK, Sunless Skies and Valve Index

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A quick look over ProtonDB reports for Steam Play in March 2019
The Steam Play tracker ProtonDB just recently put out another set of reports, so here's another look at some interesting findings when going over the data. As a reminder, ProtonDB is not an official Valve site and everything should be taken with a healthy pinch of salt. That said, it's still fun to take a look at the data it provides.
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Kodi and SuperTuxKart on Panfrost
Back in October, Panfrost ran some simple benchmarks, like glmark. Five months later, Panfrost has grown from running benchmarks to real-world apps, like Kodi, and 3D games like SuperTuxKart and Neverball.
Since the previous post, there have been major improvements across every part of the aspect culminating in this milestone. On the kernel side, my co-contributors Tomeu Vizoso and Rob Herring have created a modern kernel driver, suitable for mainline inclusion. Panfrost now uses this upstream-friendly driver, rather than relying on a modified legacy kernel as in the past. The new kernel module is currently under review for mainline inclusion. You can read more about this progress on Tomeu’s blog.
Outside the kernel, however, the changes have been no less significant. Early development was constrained to our own project repositories, as the code was not yet ready to general users. In early February, thanks in part to the progress on the kernel-space, we flew out of our nest, and Panfrost was merged into upstream Mesa, the central repository for free software graphics drivers. Development now occurs in-tree in Mesa.
We have continued decoding new aspects of the hardware and implementing support in the driver. A few miscellaneous additions include cube maps, gl_PointSize and gl_PointCoord, linear depth rendering, performance counters, and new shader instructions.
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DXVK 1.0.2 is out with some bug fixes, d9vk seems to be progressing nicely
Two bits of Wine-related news today with both DXVK for Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 and d9vk for Vulkan-based D3D9 coming along.
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Sunless Skies to get an exciting update next week, to make the Albion area more interesting
Sunless Skies is a fantastic game, I've enjoyed many hours exploration in it and Failbetter Games are set to improved it. Note: You can see some previous thoughts I had here.
The Wayfarer Update is arriving on Tuesday, 9th April and it will include a big refresh to the Albion area "with a focus on providing more to see and do during voyages". This is only the first of multiple updates coming to the game, which it seems will be free.
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Woops - Valve accidentally put up the Valve Index, Base Station and Controllers unfinished store pages
What could possibly be a little prank from Valve, the unfinished Steam store pages for the Valve Index, Valve Index Base Station and Valve Index Controllers went online a little too early. Yes, really, this is not a prank from us! SteamDB were quick as usual to spot it.
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DXVK 1.0.2 Rolls Out With A Few Fixes
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