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DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by thingsiplay to c/gaming

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Now you can play DOOM on your GPU. You are confused? Well this means the CPU is no longer used for the logic of the game, it runs basically entirely on GPU. So the graphics card is not only used for graphics, but the main logic of the game. It just needs a little bit help from CPU to start the process I think.

News Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DOOM-ROCm-LLVM-Port
Project Source: https://github.com/jhuber6/doomgeneric/tree/amdgpu

It's a fork from a fork of a fork of a fork:

id-Software/DOOM > insane-adding-machines/DOOM > maximevince/fbDOOM > ozkl/doomgeneric > jhuber6/doomgeneric/tree/amdgpu

I quote the developer (from README):

why

Because I can.

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