Google Stadia (a new game-streaming service) on Linux/Vulkan

[rene]

Don't believe I've seen this here yet; could in fact be significant news for once. Google's new "Stadia" game-streaming service will run on Linux and use the Vulkan 3D API. Even if you're not a believer in game streaming as such, certainly this means that quite a number of the biggest titles will be made to run on Linux / use Vulkan. And that in fact seems interesting...

https://fossbytes.com/google-stadia-lin ... en-source/

[jimallyn]

I'm not a gamer, but for those who are, and for Linux in general, this sounds like a good thing!

[rene]

I'm not a gamer, but [ ... ]

Nor me certainly but newest games are the highest-demand use-case for home users. Huge numbers and types of supported input peripherals, lowest latency, best GPU drivers, ...

Add in Steam's Proton and perhaps there's some glimmer of an interesting coming couple of years.

[michael louwe]

Google's new "Stadia" game-streaming service will run on Linux and use the Vulkan 3D API.

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Is Google's new cloud gaming service scalable? Yes but it may not be affordable, warns edge-computing CEO

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/1 ... olystream/
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To make Stadia work, Google may need to limit the number of customers to a few million, in order to not choke the world's Internet bandwidth since to stream a game video in 4k to a player via Chrome requires at least 50Mbps.

[rene]

I'm afraid I no longer follow "The Register" links. It's become nothing but a repository of IT soap opera clickbait.