I'm a Linuxfag, but I have a Windows 7 partition I mainly use for games. I really don't want to install W10 as I'd have to be constantly fighting its own updates and settings for it not to fuck me over with constant spying and monitoring. However, it's the only OS with DX12.
This is important to me as I have a GPU that benefits greatly from DX12/Vulkan.
I'd much rather use Vulkan, of course, but I don't know how many games will support it. Will Vulkan be more available than DX12?
I'm a Linuxfag, but I have a Windows 7 partition I mainly use for games...
Jonathan Nguyen
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Bentley Gutierrez
DX12 itself isn't even worth upgrading. I don't think either of them are largely used yet.
Adrian Wood
There will be no future PC games released worth playing anyway.
Couldn't care less about DirectX.
Nolan James
When Kronos gets the thumb out of their ass and actually starts helping all developers to implement it with better documentation and SDK tools instead of getting paid by AMD to travel and implement it because AMD wanted Doom's performance to be raised then telling everyone else to pay up or fuck off. Then yes, more devs will use Vulkan.
Till then. Most devs will use OGL 4.5 or DX11/12 because those have actual documentation on them.
Jayden Ramirez
Most games don't even support DX12 because the majority of Windows users still use 7. Upgrading is not worth your time and suffering. Really, the only point to upgrading for DX12 is for emulation, which has near equal if not inferior performance to Vulkan.
Bentley Roberts
In principle yes, Vulkan will be available on more devices than DirectX. Any hardware supporting OpenGL ES 3.1 or OpenGL 4.0+ is stated to support Vulkan.
In practice, Vulkan support requires a graphics driver update. Good fucking luck trying to update systems with 3+ year old cards, old Optimus laptops with OEM-provided hybrid graphics drivers or 99.9999% of the Android ecosystem.
Wyatt Wilson
Remember those times, when you could install a DirectX upgrade on your existing Windows version.
And it came with driver updates for your old shit hardware.
Kayden Gutierrez
Devs will use Vulkan for the same reasons they use OpenGL4 instead of DirectX9: it's on everything. You can release on anything instead of just the dying platform that is B01NET 10.
Carter Phillips
What game do you play that supports DX12? Is a couple of FPS in that game worth win10?
Ignore DX12 and it will go away not really, normalfags will eat it up and help MS bury Vulkan like they did with OpenGL
Zachary Richardson
Some games already use Vulkan but they are not that many.
Considering Vulkan can be used in more platforms, it will likely be used at least as much as DX12.
Vulkan is the replacement of OpenGL.