Quoting: edo

Quoting: lijuMight be a silly question, but can any of You advice what is the reason for dev now to study and learn directx12 instead of focusing on Vulkan? What benefit could there be to choose dx12 over Vulkan nowadays? Any super support from ms? Incentive? Is it that vulkan is available on windows, but not x1? I would think having limited manpower resources its always better to go 100% into Vulkan to reach easily more devices/ bigger market. Am I wrong here?

W10 market share is rising, dx12 also works on xbox one and thats a lot of users, better tools than on vulkan, it has support from MS so aaa devs can ask them for help, supports sharing stuff across multigpu, etc.

Vulkan features and toolsets are growing and have the benefit of multi co help (open source), and I wouldn't call XB1 and W10 MULTI platform, lets look at what Vulkan Supports = Win7 Vista Win8 Win8.1 Win10 Linux Android(mobile) ARM devices, even Arduino, oh and Nintendo Switch (and PS4 I believe allows it). So the only platforms not supporting Vulkan is iOS and XB1, and that is because their stuck so far up their own as**** to even see the horizon...

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I think there is a way to do that in the command section of a games properties under steam right?

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Hijack Linux? you do realize there is more then 1 distribution of Linux right? everyone is entitled to make their own release, even Valve. You do know that updates for the Steam app still work on all other distributions, they didn't lock it down to SteamOS. Some people need some education in their head!

SteamOS was for the Steam consoles (open source console technically), it failed because the drivers and software were not up to snuff, alot of developers saw this, and dropped support for Linux, but as you can see we're finally getting more work put into that aspect of Linux.... (still going to take at least a year to match Windows performance overall)...

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Looks like company of heroes, I wonder if their going to nickle and dime people to death with micro-transactions (dlc) or if their just going to give people the best they got and simply rely on a good game and reviews to sell their product?

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The poor sales are from a BAD reception of the games lack luster story line and DLC content, coupled with bad performance issues on PC. Unfortunately they are outright blaming people not spending money as the issue... its not.

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Well its good to see they are using Vulkan now, I'm not sure if they ever got DX12 out the door but there seems to be no practical reason to use DX12 when you game is on multi-platform. Its a real shame Apple doesn't support Vulkan, but I guess in time there will be some VK to Metal conversion tools to make the process quite easy for developers.

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Reminds me of Kinetic Void, the devs of that game basically ran out of energy/money to finish it properly so its mostly abandon-ware atm. Still works, just not quite a finish feel to it!

And another game called Limit Theory which has never been released yet due to developer loosing his mind and being sent off to the loonie bin or something... (maybe he recovered, hard to say given the project has still yet not appeared!) EDIT: I just checked the devblogs, Josh has come back to life in the past month with LT and things are looking like progress, still its one of those indie games that has been in development for 5x as long as originally planned!

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G2A just doesn't have much regulation, the most they have is that Shield nonsense, which only protects the buyer and not the publisher/developer.

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The thing is G2A is like a sellers market, much in the way EBAY is. They don't physically put allot of these keys up themselves from what I gather, rather sellers just advertise with them a set number of keys.

Honestly I haven't had any issues with them like you guys, but I don't really buy much off them, only the odd occasional RISKY purchase if I can get a cheap deal on something. Such as titles on the verge of abandon-ware situation.
(Its ironic that DX:MD is at that stage now, publisher blaming customers for poor sales instead of game quality!)

It should also be noted that many PROMINENT YT streamers are still advertising G2A as the bees-nees, so that doesn't help, but what can you do?

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I wonder if they will need to keep applying these improvements to these sort of games each release or if they will automatically apply to other games that use the same rendering features?

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