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Nintendo's Switch Game Console Is Vulkan & OpenGL Conformant
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Originally posted by FireBurn View PostI'm surprised the driver isn't compliant with Vulkan 1.0.38, version 1.0.1 was from 9 months agoMichael Larabel
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Originally posted by AsuMagic View PostNintendo? Supporting a widespread standard?!
Handheld devices: threatened by smart phones and tablets.
Mature consoles market: already occupied by PS4/Xbox
Dropping the TV console and offering a TV docking station for the new handheld with Vulkan support driven by a cheap Tegra X1(20nm) solution is simply a logical decision to bring more third party games to one single platform while being able to keep the prices cheap for the masses and kids that can live with visuals around high end smartphone/tablet level(e.g. iPhone 7).
Especially smart phones and tablets will be the Nintendo killer at some time so I guess they will have to change their business completely after some years and perhaps develop Mario games for app stores...
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Originally posted by oooverclocker View Post[...]Especially smart phones and tablets will be the Nintendo killer at some time so I guess they will have to change their business completely after some years and perhaps develop Mario games for app stores...Ein Mario-Spiel, das sich mit einer Hand steuern lässt. Mario bewegt sich automatisch durch die jeweiligen Level vorwärts. Du musst ihn im richtigen Moment antippen, damit er sich mithilfe von stylishen Sprüngen, Luftdrehungen und Wandsprüngen den Weg zum Ziel ebnet und dabei Münzen einsammelt! Su…
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Originally posted by birdie View PostIt's based on the Maxwell arch so it's not 100% Vulkan compliant - I mean in theory it is, in practice many things will be implemented in software and consequently they will be very slow/more or less unusable. Even Pascal is not 100% implemented in hardware in regard to Vulkan/D3D12 but at least it's much much better than Maxwell.
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Originally posted by Almindor View PostIf I was asked by Bethesda or any other game company if they should port a game to Linux I'd say a big fat NO.
Additionally, abstraction layers like SDL2 have helped many games become more stable and rely on less custom code for OS interaction and were implemented during porting to another OS.
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BTW Linux desktop market share is 2.3%, just not with Steam installed and you all know why. Chicken-and-egg...Last edited by oooverclocker; 19 December 2016, 03:12 PM.
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Originally posted by AsuMagic View Post(edit : and good luck emulating this CPU at full speed)
All that said, however, it's at least good news that they will use some standards. At least it can help publishers more easily bring previous-generation games to it.Last edited by Holograph; 19 December 2016, 03:57 PM.
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It's easy to support many distros with one build on Linux. Ship your libraries with your application. It's been a solved issue since Loki started shipping games in 1999. The hard to support many distros argument is an argument that's made in ignorance of the development process. This is a solved issue.
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