New Vulkan Extension Proposed To Help In Emulating AMD's Old Mantle API

[theriddick]

I wonder if Mantle even runs these games better over default DX11 to Vulkan solution?

[loganj]

Some of these games are never going to get an update to the renderer, and only ever performed correctly on Mantle. It's not useless if you were really into those games.

probably using dxvk is enough already

[dEnigma]

How the Hell does one arrive at GRVK for a mantle to vulkan effort?

To quote the developer:
"I originally thought about naming the project `MantleVK` or `MtlVK` but I thought people would confuse it with a Metal wrapper. `CrustVK` was considered, but it would look like a Rust project. I landed on GRVK because all Mantle API functions are prefixed with `gr`. I didn't know at the time that it was also the case for the Glide API."

[microcode]

I doubt that, since that would mean they would have alienated Nvidia and Intel users, which is the majority of the market.

No, it was each of these developers' reason for writing a Mantle renderer: at the time there was nothing else that could give them similar performance on any GPU vendor, and probably AMD gave them lots of help. The distinct advantage of Mantle at the time was a massive marketing win, and the results were real.

[puleglot]

How the Hell does one arrive at GRVK for a mantle to vulkan effort?

Look at the documentation. GR/gr prefix is used extensively in the Mantle API.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Ab...Gj5aGHRyq/view

[LinAGKar]

Some of these games are never going to get an update to the renderer, and only ever performed correctly on Mantle. It's not useless if you were really into those games.

I doubt that, since that would mean they would have alienated Nvidia and Intel users, which is the majority of the market.

[microcode]

such a useless effort

Some of these games are never going to get an update to the renderer, and only ever performed correctly on Mantle. It's not useless if you were really into those games.

[Quackdoc]

This is cool. If it helps zink all the better.

[rmfx]

They really have nothing else to do with their money and time than bloating Vulkan specs for no reason?
We owe a lot to Mantle but it’s dead, nobody uses it, nobody needs it, and that why Vulkan’s here.

Move on and leave the dust in the bin…

[M@GOid]

One api to rule them all...

One API to find them...