Star Citizen Developers Discuss DirectX 12/Vulkan Support

[WYP]

In a new Q/A video the developers of Star Citizen have confirmed that they are working to support next generation APIs, including support for Asynchronous Compute and heterogeneous Multi-GPU setups.



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[SeekaX]

I suppose Mantle support is dropped? I wonder if the whole Mantle thing was actually worth it for AMD, it's already completely irrelevant and DX12 and Vulcan would've probably happened around this time anyways.

 

[SPS]

I suppose Mantle support is dropped? I wonder if the whole Mantle thing was actually worth it for AMD, it's already completely irrelevant and DX12 and Vulcan would've probably happened around this time anyways.

Vulkan wouldn't have happened without Mantle. The guys involved said this on a GDC video. Mantle basically formed the bulk of Vulkan.

 

[SeekaX]

Vulkan wouldn't have happened without Mantle. The guys involved said this on a GDC video. Mantle basically formed the bulk of Vulkan.

Ah alright, i didn't know there was a connection between Vulkan and Mantle.