Latest Steam Beta Client Adds Preliminary Support for Vulkan Games, Linux Changes | Linux Today

Latest Steam Beta Client Adds Preliminary Support for Vulkan Games, Linux Changes

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Marius Nestor
Feb 18, 2016

The February 18 Beta build of the Steam Client adds, as expected, preliminary support for Vulkan games, which has been implemented in the Steam Overlay. Additionally, the Linux version of the Steam Client received support for the Vulkan ICD loader (a.k.a. libvulkan), implemented in the Steam Runtime.

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Marius Nestor

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