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Originally posted by pal666 View Postthey don't need to do any of that. cryengine already supports vulkan
1. They don't just activate a button that enables the Vulkan-wrapper, leading to close to no performance gains at all (cause generic wrappers tend to not have any impact at all - they may be even slower)
2. The Devs working on it get knowledge by working, thus being able to squeeze out more performance AND being able to optimize bottlenecks, that can be found on other parts of the code (thus making the code base not only "ready" for Vulkan, but maybe even specifically optimized for it)
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they switched from cryengine to lumberyard (a fork) supported by amazon
Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.
Lumberyard and StarEngine are both forks from exactly the SAME build of CryEngine.
We stopped taking new builds from Crytek towards the end of 2015. So did Amazon. Because of this the core of the engine that we use is the same one that Amazon use and the switch was painless (I think it took us a day or so of two engineers on the engine team). What runs Star Citizen and Squadron 42 is our heavily modified version of the engine which we have dubbed StarEngine, just now our foundation is Lumberyard not CryEngine. None of our work was thrown away or modified. We switched the like for like parts of the engine from CryEngine to Lumberyard. All of our bespoke work from 64 bit precision, new rendering and planet tech, Item / Entity 2.0, Local Physics Grids, Zone System, Object Containers and so on were unaffected and remain unique to Star Citizen.
Going forward we will utilize the features of Lumberyard that make sense for Star Citizen. We made this choice as Amazon's and our focus is aligned in building massively online games that utilize the power of cloud computing to deliver a richer online experience than would be possible with an old fashioned single server architecture (which is what CryNetwork is).
Looking at Crytek's roadmap and Amazon's we determined that Amazon was investing in the areas we were most interested in. They are a massive company that is making serious investments into Lumberyard and AWS to support next generation online gaming. Crytek doesn't have the resources to compete with this level of investment and have never been focused on the network or online aspects of the engine in the way we or Amazon are. Because of this combined with the fact we weren't taking new builds of CryEngine we decided that Amazon would be the best partner going forward for the future of Star Citizen.
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postso the correct solution is to upgrade their version
At this point, the StarEngine has only remnants of code left from the original CryEngine and I highly doubt, that the generalized Vulkan-wrapper Crytech wrote is even remotely capable of rendering the code SC has by now.
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I kicked in $1250 for Star Citizen, and am a Golden Ticket holder (signed up to the forums before the first reveal was announced) Chris Roberts makes the best space games out there IMHO (and that's purely a matter of my taste). I'm very excited to finally see solid news on the Linux port of Star Citizen starting to come together. It has been a bit frustrating seeing the game coming together with 0 news on the Linux version. Vulkan being used as the primary rendering system sets the game up to be far more easily supported on Linux. The multiplayer code is all Amazon cloud based and the audio/input systems should be very easy to replace with OpenAL/SDL.equivalents
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Originally posted by debianxfce View PostWhile waiting this game to be released, there is free demo of Karball Space Program in Steam.
Originally posted by debianxfce View PostI have no clue what kind of skyrocket I need to build to get to the moon orbit at 357 000 km.
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I'm most excited for this announcement for it's influence on other games and developers. This really started with Doom as a AAA title going with a Vulkan first mentality and as more games do it, others will follow suit. On the other side you have games like Tomb Raider and Mirror's Edge that are a disaster on Dx12. I like many on these forums care more about Linux than Windows gaming, but as Vulkan takes over more of the Windows gaming space, it will open up more opportunities for more ports.
I especially love that they are dropping Dx11 support, the sooner that dies, the better it will be for everyone.
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