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Feral Still Won't Confirm Or Deny Vulkan For Deus Ex On Linux
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When people release multi platform games, there's something that crosses my mind... Why not use the cross platform APIs and be done with it? Id Software does that and they seem to be doing fine. Doom works great in OpenGL and Vulkan, being one of the few games which show the true power of Vulkan.
Use OpenGL for Windows, Mac and Linux. Then, for the low level version, use Vulkan for Windows, Mac (it's available on the Mac, right?) and Linux. There.
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The thing is, Vulkan is a lot of extra effort for a Linux port. You've got developers who've only just gotten used to using OpenGL writing Linux software and now you're asking them to throw out that knowledge and start again in Vulkan. Meanwhile DirectX 12 is still the king of APIs on Microsoft. Unless Vulkan has direct improvements over DirectX 12, It will remain a feature that's only useful to developers on Linux. Yes Vulkan is great if you're writing your application from the start in it. But if you're porting, then its advantages become less clear. Vulkan hasn't got the wrappers or library support that OpenGL currently has. It wouldn't surprise me if most of the developers starting Linux ports have no idea about the NVIDIA vs AMD performance differences on Linux or about the Open Source/Closed Source driver states.
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Originally posted by johnc View Post
For the same reason devs use idiotic tech like C# and ASP.NET.
'Cause "muh Microsoft!!!"
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Originally posted by andrebrait View PostI can understand when you're going to release the thing only for Windows, but if you're going multiplatform, why not just use the Multiplatform APIs instead of using one for each platform? That's what puzzles me.
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