Sunday, 26 August 2012

Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 now focusing on Linux through Google Chrome, more or less

Epic Citadel tech demo

A Ultimate Goal of Linux gaming continues to be an Unreal Engine 3 port. You get one for that OS would unlock an enormous amount of games that's been the province of, well, nearly every other mainstream platform. Because of Google protecting Expensive on Linux through Chrome, that dream is alive in a minimum of a rudimentary form. Experimenters in the Phoronix forums have discovered that Chrome 21 has support for that Stage three dimensional hardware acceleration required to drive Epic Games' Expensive conversion of UE3. Tell Chrome to allow support in addition to ignore a graphics nick blacklist, and all of a sudden you are running Epic Citadel out of your Linux install. Whenever we say "running," however, we are going for a slight quantity of poetic license. Performance is not that hot, and certain designs may not show the medieval architecture in most its glory. We have confirmed with Epic it works, but it is still firm around the stance that there are no plans for official UE3 support on Linux "at this time around." Will still be promising enough that perhaps, just maybe, players can embrace a wide open-source platform without needing to quit the games they love.

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