Are there any plans to port the launcher to linux?

Zaya6 · April 23, 2021, 10:04pm

It’s not a huge problem atm but I was wondering if there were plans to port the launcher to linux? Also does the engine only support the proprietary AMD driver instead of the open source driver?

mafiesto4 · April 24, 2021, 9:41am

Right now there is no plan for Launcher porting, mostly due to a lack of manpower. But recently after the Editor for Linux release we’ve seen significant amount of Linux users working with Flax so I would take it as a good sign that we should port Launcher for Linux later this year (eg. when doing Editor support for MacOS).

Regarding the GPU driver we pick the first one from Vulkan API and support custom overrides via -intel/-amd/-nvidia cmd line. Here is a related code that does that:

github.com

FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine/blob/master/Source/Engine/GraphicsDevice/Vulkan/GPUDeviceVulkan.cpp#L1190


// Enumerate all GPU devices and pick one
uint32 gpuCount = 0;
VALIDATE_VULKAN_RESULT(vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices(Instance, &gpuCount, nullptr));
ASSERT(gpuCount >= 1);
Array<VkPhysicalDevice> gpus;
gpus.AddZeroed(gpuCount);
VALIDATE_VULKAN_RESULT(vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices(Instance, &gpuCount, gpus.Get()));
Array<GPUAdapterVulkan> adapters;
adapters.EnsureCapacity(gpuCount);
for (uint32 gpuIndex = 0; gpuIndex < gpuCount; gpuIndex++)
{
    GPUAdapterVulkan adapter(gpus[gpuIndex]);
    adapters.Add(adapter);
    const Char* type;
    switch (adapter.GpuProps.deviceType)
    {
    case VK_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_OTHER:
        type = TEXT("Other");
        break;