Nvidia announced full support for Linux on equal terms

The company Nvidia, the largest graphic chip designer, having transferred part of the documentation for the video card to the nouveau team, decided not to stop there.

The other day, as part of a strategy to empower game developers, the company introduced a new platform , GameWorks. The platform aims to simplify game development and improve the quality of the game experience of PC gamers. Game creators will have at their disposal libraries, documentation and SDKs for more than 300 visual effects developed by Nvidia.

The most interesting thing is that Tony Tamasi (senior vice president of content and technology for Nvidia) confirmed the availability of GameWorks tools for Linux platforms. This will happen on the day of the official release of SteamOS .
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When SteamOS ships, SteamOS. - Tony Tamasi, SVP of Content and Technology, NVIDIA

At the moment we are talking about the official support of Ubuntu, Android and SteamOS, which will be provided on an equal footing with Windows developers. Now for Windows developers the following tools are available: VisualFX SDK, Core SDK, PhysX SDK, Graphics Library, Game Compute Library and Optix SDK. Moreover, NVIDIA will support Linux-developers in the field of marketing and promotion of their creations, because now they can participate in the program “The Way It's Meant to be Played”.

As for the visual effects, which are updates for PhysX, they are divided into three software packages: Flex, GI Works and Flame Works:

• Flex, allows you to simulate the interaction of solids with liquids.
• GI Works makes it possible to create global lighting in real time.
• Flame Works is designed to help developers demonstrate realistic flames and smoke.