Chris Roberts has done his usual video update on Star Citizen, and he mentions that they are looking into Vulkan.
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User question:
"Now that Vulkan is officially released, has the Frankfurt team had the chance to dive in to see about supporting this API alongside DirectX 12"
Chris Roberts answer:
"We have looked at Vulkan, we are pretty excited about it. We are considering our options between Vulkan and DX12, we haven't made a full decision yet. Vulkan has some advantages, as long as it works properly it can work on PC, Linux and other platforms." Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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User question:
"Now that Vulkan is officially released, has the Frankfurt team had the chance to dive in to see about supporting this API alongside DirectX 12"
Chris Roberts answer:
"We have looked at Vulkan, we are pretty excited about it. We are considering our options between Vulkan and DX12, we haven't made a full decision yet. Vulkan has some advantages, as long as it works properly it can work on PC, Linux and other platforms." Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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CIG has been going back and forth regarding Linux support, so I would be very cautious with buying into what they say. However, they finally got some Linux devs in house and CryEngine started to work on port too. There's hope, but we will see in time.
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he missed the point that DX12 not only is Win-only it's W10-only
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GustyGhost Mar 9, 2016
For those of you who are still skeptical, a very telling post by a developer: https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/6342993/#Comment_6342993
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Quoting: minjhe missed the point that DX12 not only is Win-only it's W10-only
Exactly!
For now DX12 means Win10 + XBONE only.
Vulkan is everything else, including Win7 and Win8.
Last time I saw steam data win10 was about ~35% of the windows installations. So DX12 means reaching 35% of the windows market + the XBONE market.
No wonder why Microsoft is pushing Win10 sooo hard right now. If vulkan is the majority choice... then the games can start coming at RELEASE for linux, which is pretty scary for their plain of turning windows store + Win10 into a closed gaming platform
Last edited by amonobeax on 10 March 2016 at 2:17 pm UTC
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