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![[Linux] Dolphin 5.0-6000 - Sonic Adventure 2: Battle | Vulkan + Mesa (RADV)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gxa_nq_7lMs/mqdefault.jpg "[Linux] Dolphin 5.0-6000 - Sonic Adventure 2: Battle | Vulkan + Mesa (RADV)
Im not sure whether it was a Mesa stack update or a Dolphin update, or a combination of the two, but today I noticed that Dolphins Vulkan backend began working on Linux! Heres a quick video to show its performance.
I noticed that the video looks a little choppy but you can see in Dolphins FPS counter that for the most part it stays at 60fps or there around. I have also included my activity monitor (KSysGuard) and system temperatures (PSensor) in this video, to give you an idea of system usage.
To also help make this demo more accurate, I kept some of the applications that I frequently use opened on one of my other desktops. I tend to keep these open when I run Dolphin and, just like when playing games through Steam, I keep things like Discord and Chromium open in the background.
I should note that on my first recording attempt (and there were many attempts, mostly to do with me configuring OBS) I got a strange error message saying that there was a read error. Not sure what caused it but I played for about 25 minutes after that and had no such error again. Perhaps it was a minor hiccup.
System Specifications:
CPU: Intel i5-6500 3.2Ghz
GPU: AMD RX 480 (8GB Sapphire)
RAM: 16GB Crucial DDR4 2133Mhz
Dolphin Drive: 525GB Crucial MX300
ISO Drive: Crucial 2TB 5400RPM HDD
Operating System: KDE neon User Edition 5.11.4 (Based on Ubuntu 16.04)
Kernel Version: 4.10
Mesa Version: 17.4.2
Software Used:
Open Broadcaster Software
KSysGuard
PSensor
Dolphin Emulator 5.0-6000 Git
Kdenlive
Applications Running During Recording:
Dolphin 5.0-6000
KSysGuard
PSensor
Chromium (2, windows, 8 tabs on one, 7 tabs on the other)
Discord for Linux
Telegram Desktop
Dolphin File Manager
Konsole
Clementine
Open Broadcasting Software
Dolphin Settings: https://imgur.com/a/kSO8E
Sonic the Hedgehog belongs to SEGA/Sonic Team.
Download Dolphin: https://dolphin-emu.org/
Thanks for watching!")
