It’s Only Logical To Update To Vulkan On Your Raspberry Pi 4
The Raspberry Pi 4 depends on OpenGL to render it's graphics, which is not optimal as the industry is trying to move away from the dated API to the more modern Vulkan…
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Tag: Vulkan
Ghost Recon Takes A Shot At Vulkan And DX11
Over at The FPS Review you can get an idea how your system will fare when playing the new Ghost Recon game, and if you are better off with Vulkan or DX11. …
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Khronos Group Releases Vulkan Ray Tracing
The Khronos Group has ratified and published several provisional extensions that add ray tracing to the Vulkan API. These extensions are open, cross-platform, and cross-vendor. Its structure is like DirectX...
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The Khronos Group Launches Vulkan 1.2
Image Credit: The Khronos Group The next revision of the Vulkan API is now available. Vulkan 1.2 has a final specification alongside multiple drivers that pass their conformance tests. Five...
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Playing Red Dead Redemption 2 Direct And On Vulkan
Kitguru grabbed an RTX 2070 SUPER as well as an RX 5700 XT, to test how much difference your API makes when playing RDR2. They hopped into the graphics settings...
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Wine Focusing on WineD3D Vulkan Back-end (vs DXVK)
It looks like the Wine project are proceeding forward with their own WineD3D Vulkan back-end, rather than using the competing DXVK as seen in Valve’s Proton implementation. Before the discussion starts,...
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Crytek’s Neon Noir is a Platform Agnostic Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo
Crytek has released video of a new demo called Neon Noir, showcasing real-time ray tracing with a new version of CRYENGINE Total Illumination, slated for release in 2019. The big story here is that…
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EWC 2019: Vulkan Safety Critical (SC) Working Group Created
The Khronos Group, the industry body that maintains OpenGL, OpenCL, EGL, glTF, Vulkan, OpenXR, and several other standards, has announced the Vulkan Safety Critical (SC) Working Group at Embedded...
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Tutorial for RTX on Vulkan (VK NVX raytracing extension)
Microsoft got quite a bit of mindshare with the announcement of DirectX Raytracing (DXR) at last year’s GDC 2018. NVIDIA’s RTX technology was somewhat synonymous with DirectX 12 for a...
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Q2VKPT Makes Quake 2 the First Entirely Raytraced Game
Wait - the first fully raytraced game was released in 1997? Not exactly, but Q2VKPT is. That name is not a typo (it stands for Quake 2 Vulkan Path Tracing) it's actually…
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Filament Game Engine Open Sourced (Apache 2.0)
Yet another video game engine has entered the market – this time by Google. Filament is written in C++, supports OpenGL 4.1-and-up, OpenGL ES 3.0-and-up, and Vulkan 1.0 on Android, Linux, macOS,…
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Podcast #490 – Seasonic Fanless power supply, HyperX cordless headset, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #490 - 03/07/18 Join us this week for discussion on the Seasonic Fanless power supply, HyperX cordless headset, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access...
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The Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V 1.3
Vulkan 1.0 released a little over two years ago. The announcement, with conformant drivers, conformance tests, tools, and patch for The Talos Principle, made...
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The Wolfensteins of Vulkan in the spotlight
[H]ard|OCP took a close look at the new Wolfenstein game, covering the new graphics options which appear in the menus as well as the bugs that could be caused by then, not…
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What is the best GPU to beat Nazis with?
Wolfenstein II The New Colossus uses the Vulkan API which could favour AMD's offerings however NVIDIA have vastly improved their support so a win is not guaranteed. The Guru of 3D tested…
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Podcast #464 – Vega Redux, Intel 8th Gen Core, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #464 - 08/17/17 Join us for continued discussion on RX Vega, Intel 8th Gen Core, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access it...
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Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation Vulkan Support Soon
Oxide Games has been mentioned all throughout the development of the next-generation graphics APIs, DirectX 12, Mantle, and Vulkan. Their Star Swarm “stress test” was one of the first practical examples of…
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Vulkan Renderer for Doom 3 BFG Source Code Published
Over the last few days, Dustin Land of id Software has been publishing commits to his vkDOOM3 GitHub repository. This project, as the name suggests, adds a Vulkan-based renderer to the…
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