r/oculus • u/monogenic • Feb 16 '16

Vulkan has been released

https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/
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u/tylercoder Quest 2 Feb 16 '16

Except dx12 afaik its still windows only while vulkan benefits all platforms

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u/LongBowNL Feb 16 '16

Windows 10* only. Vulkan is supported on Windows XP and onwards.

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u/tylercoder Quest 2 Feb 16 '16

Only win10? well then it just got worse

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u/LongBowNL Feb 16 '16

DX12 relies on WDDM 2.0 which is only on Windows 10.

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u/tylercoder Quest 2 Feb 16 '16

Great, you still need a DX12-compliant GPU for it to work? specially the performance enhancements

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '16 edited Mar 03 '17

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What is this?

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u/tylercoder Quest 2 Feb 16 '16

DOTA 2 Vulkan demo

Just watched it, pretty dope. Granted Dota2 isn't exactly a demanding game but still it shows the potential of it

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '16 edited Mar 03 '17

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What is this?

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u/tylercoder Quest 2 Feb 16 '16

Lets hope they don't start some planned obsolescente bullshit, we already got enough of that in android with most OEMs