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Star Citizen drops intended DirectX 12 support, will use Vulkan instead

March 19, 2017

A couple of years ago, Cloud Imperium Games the developers of Star Citizen, stated that they would be implementing Microsoft's DirectX 12 low-level programming API into Star Citizen in the future, however accor... Read More...

Vulkan gets updated with experimental Explicit Multi-GPU support

Jeff Williams

March 2, 2017

News

GDC thus far has been full of things we expected to see though there are even a few good surprises that have a big impact on the future of gaming. Khronos has updated Vulkan to version 1.0.42, and with the few ... Read More...

AMD Capsaicin and Cream Event Summary – Welcome the RX Vega

CreativeMaster

March 1, 2017

News

Capsaicin & Cream Last year at GDC, AMD had their Capsaicin event, named after the chemical that provides pepper its spice. In it they talked some about their then unreleased Polaris architecture, and thei... Read More...

DOOM Vulkan performance analysis, a clear advantage for AMD

Jeff Williams

July 14, 2016

Performance Analysis

iD Software added compatibility with the Vulkan API in their most recent patch for DOOM, so we've take some time to see the type of performance improvements we can realistically see. The most recent other Vulka... Read More...

DOOM Vulkan patch is finally here with big improvements

Jeff Williams

July 11, 2016

Gaming, News

iD Software has finally put the finishing touches on the patch for DOOM that enables the Vulkan API. It's been officially released and is available for download. This is now one of only a handful of games that ... Read More...

Tagged Vulkan

Star Citizen drops intended DirectX 12 support, will use Vulkan instead

Vulkan gets updated with experimental Explicit Multi-GPU support

AMD Capsaicin and Cream Event Summary – Welcome the RX Vega

DOOM Vulkan performance analysis, a clear advantage for AMD

DOOM Vulkan patch is finally here with big improvements