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Games: Metro Exodus and Godot

By Roy Schestowitz Created 25/11/2020 - 10:15pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 25th of November 2020 10:15:27 PM Filed under Gaming [1]

Metro Exodus is still planned to release for Linux and macOS | GamingOnLinux[2]

4A Games have confirmed in an official 10th anniversary update post today that Metro Exodus is still going to release for Linux and macOS as well.

They gave a small overview in the post about what's been going on like celebrating the first release of Metro 2033 which arrived back in March 2010. Not only that, they recently got acquired by Embracer Group who also control Koch Media, Saber Interactive, THQ Nordic and others. Specifically, 4A Games are now an independently run subsidiary of Saber Interactive.

4A Games Still Working On Linux Port Of Metro Exodus - Phoronix [3]

While Metro Exodus can run on Linux right now via Steam Play, 4A Games is still working on a port of this popular game to Linux and Mac systems.

Following the reliable ports of Metro 2033 and Metro Redux to Linux, we've been looking forward to the native Linux port of Metro Exodus since at least the earlier versions have been benchmark-friendly for our needs following the Linux port (complete with CLI switches, unlike the Windows version at least at the time).

Godot Engine - Introducing the Betsy GPU texture compressor [4]

My name is Matias N. Goldberg, I normally maintain the 2.x branch of Ogre aka ogre-next and I wrote Betsy, a GPU texture compressor that runs on GPUs. This work was commissioned by Godot Engine through the Software Freedom Conservancy to solve a major complaint: importing textures is excruciantly slow and takes many minutes.

Certain compression algorithms such as BC1-5 are quite simple and there are already fast high quality compression algorithms.

However algorithms such as BC6, ETC1, ETC2 and EAC are currently taking the majority of time and thus considerably attention were given to these.

Nonetheless Betsy implemented compute-shader versions for BC1,3,4,5,6, ETC1,2 and EAC algorithms.

Betsy works as a standard Command Line tool which means it can be used like any other exe tool outside of Godot.

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Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/69 [2] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/metro-exodus-is-still-planned-to-release-for-linux-and-macos [3] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Metro-Exodus-Linux-Still-WIP [4] https://godotengine.org/article/betsy-gpu-texture-compressor