MoltenVK 1.0.35 Brings Many Additions & Improvements For Vulkan On macOS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MoltenVK 1.0.35 Brings Many Additions & Improvements For Vulkan On macOS

The team maintaining MoltenVK for allowing a majority of the Vulkan API to function atop Apple's Metal drivers for macOS/iOS have issued their first big update in two months...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MoltenVK-1.0.35-Vulkan-Features

[shmerl]

In other news, Apple are still jerks and refuse to support Vulkan natively.

[ZeroPointEnergy]

Aren't they on their way to remove 32bit support and kill old games anyway? That platform is pretty dead if you ask me.

[Xaero_Vincent]

Yep. So many games are going to break when they remove OpenGL and 32-bit support from macOS. Isn't the Steam client application still 32-bit too?

Will it break Wine support too?

[lilunxm12]

Yep. So many games are going to break when they remove OpenGL and 32-bit support from macOS. Isn't the Steam client application still 32-bit too?

Will it break Wine support too?

Steam itself is 64 bit but still has a 32 bit launcher.

[programmerjake]

typo: tessellation fies -> fixes


one of the fixes needs to be fixed

[Leopard]

Yep. So many games are going to break when they remove OpenGL and 32-bit support from macOS. Isn't the Steam client application still 32-bit too?

Will it break Wine support too?

Steam client on MacOS is 64 bit for a long time.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/27/steam-for-mac-64-bit/

Other than that ; devs/ publishers were updating some of their titles to 64 bit and Metal already.

For example ; Medieval 2 Total War is 64 bit and supports Metal on MacOS. Port done by Feral Interactive.

[V1tol]

But old games will definitely die, like my favorite ones - FlatOut 2 and C&C Generals. You would say that they better work under Wine and you will be right, but I do not know whether Apple removed all code about 32 bit and whether Wine will be able to launch 32 bit apps on 10.15 Catalina.