Vulkan adoption chances?

[dacostafilipe]

DOOM running Vulkan on a 1080 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T_zaNqAqzY&feature=youtu.be

And it's supposed to be a Day1 support : https://twitter.com/idsoftwaretiago/status/729454143182540800

It's happening :thumbsup:

 

[cytg111]

If the developers can write for one api and target consoles, mobile, windows and mac you would think the incentive was huge. Yet OpenGL did not manage to manifest is such a fasion given the same advantages.
I think MS will do what ever they can to break any competitor to the directx platform on windows. It is a non starter.

 

[dacostafilipe]

If the developers can write for one api and target consoles, mobile, windows and mac you would think the incentive was huge. Yet OpenGL did not manage to manifest is such a fasion given the same advantages.

Yes, but this time around we have two major advantages.

1. The abstraction are almost indentical on both APIs
2. Vulkan is not that far behind DX12 like OpenGL was at the time

Sadly, we lack OSX and iOS support for now ... 🙁

I think MS will do what ever they can to break any competitor to the directx platform on windows. It is a non starter.

IHVs already have working drivers so it would complicated for them to try something now. They tried with UWP, but I would not call this a success yet ...

 

[nitromullet]

DOOM running Vulkan on a 1080 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T_zaNqAqzY&feature=youtu.be

And it's supposed to be a Day1 support

That's not exactly what they say in the video that you posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T_zaNqAqzY&feature=youtu.be&t=29s

 

[dacostafilipe]

That's not exactly what they say in the video that you posted.

Correct, but Tiago Sousa seems more optimistic 😉

We'll see ...

 

[zlatan]

Vulkan has a good chance, but most of the IHV implementations are buggy as hell. For example the NV and Intel Vulkan implementations are simply ignore VkImageMemoryBarrier, which is kinda sad. 🙁 The valodation layers are still not good enough to ship a Vulkan game to the market. Only AMD has stable implementation, they have absolutely trustworthy Vulkan driver, but the devs also need this from Intel and NV of course. Still, the immature validation layers are the biggest problem.

 

[biostud]

Isn't DX12 only available on Windows 10 whereas Vulkan can run on anything?

And Xbox One

 

[Elixer]

Here comes another Vulkan game... DOTA 2
https://steamdb.info/app/570/history/?changeid=1968671

Both for windows & linux.

 

[Despoiler]

I don't know how many people caught this, but Google announced that Android N supports Vulkan.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/graphics/index.html

 

[Bacon1]

I don't know how many people caught this, but Google announced that Android N supports Vulkan.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/graphics/index.html

Yep, they actually showed off Vulkan on android a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_I8an8jXuM

 

[nenforcer]

iD Software is pretty much the only AAA game developer using OpenGL 4.3/4.5 in the world. OpenGL ES and now Vulkan on Android is what is probably going to push its adoption to much higher levels.