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Last night Crytek, the creators of CRYENGINE and the Crysis game series, have announced that they have struck up a partnership with AMD to add native support of AMD's Mantle API to CRYENGINE.
This collaboration will allow CRYENGINE users to take all the advantage of the Mantle API, without having to code it fully into their games themselves.
Crytek call this collaboration a "natural step" saying;
So far the only Game which utilizes Cryengine and Mantle is Cloud Imperium Games' Star Citizen, which was confirmed at AMD's APU 13 last year. With this announcement we can expect many more games to run on Mantle in the future.
Mantle support on Cryengine can be considered a mayor win for AMD, add that to the Nitrous, Frostbite and Asura Engines, we can safely say that Mantle will continue to be supported by games well into for the foreseeable future.
I'm personally really glad to see mantle support coming to yet another big game engine, I imagine Crytek of all people can find great uses for the freed up CPU resources and lower level GPU hardware access that Mantle provides.
I also hope that this will mean Warhorse's upcoming Medieval RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance will be using Cryengine's upcoming support for Mantle, simply because more performance will always be a good thing, especially for those who cannot afford a high end system.
What do you guys think of Crytek's move here, are you looking forward to seeing what CRYENGINE can achieve with AMD's Mantle or are you more interested in how this will allow lower end systems cope with what famously is a demanding Engine to utilize? please comment below
Source- Crytek & AMD
This collaboration will allow CRYENGINE users to take all the advantage of the Mantle API, without having to code it fully into their games themselves.
Crytek call this collaboration a "natural step" saying;
So far the only Game which utilizes Cryengine and Mantle is Cloud Imperium Games' Star Citizen, which was confirmed at AMD's APU 13 last year. With this announcement we can expect many more games to run on Mantle in the future.
Mantle support on Cryengine can be considered a mayor win for AMD, add that to the Nitrous, Frostbite and Asura Engines, we can safely say that Mantle will continue to be supported by games well into for the foreseeable future.
I'm personally really glad to see mantle support coming to yet another big game engine, I imagine Crytek of all people can find great uses for the freed up CPU resources and lower level GPU hardware access that Mantle provides.
I also hope that this will mean Warhorse's upcoming Medieval RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance will be using Cryengine's upcoming support for Mantle, simply because more performance will always be a good thing, especially for those who cannot afford a high end system.
What do you guys think of Crytek's move here, are you looking forward to seeing what CRYENGINE can achieve with AMD's Mantle or are you more interested in how this will allow lower end systems cope with what famously is a demanding Engine to utilize? please comment below
Source- Crytek & AMD
