Comments on: Magicka 2 Dev: DX12 is a big improvement over DX11, But Vulkan May Be Even Better

By: tommy walsh

tommy walsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:44:00 +0000

In reply to James. Noone cares about xboxs 7% increase in pCars. Pcftw!

By: Christopher Collins

Christopher Collins — Fri, 22 May 2015 17:47:00 +0000

In reply to James.

Saturating every core to 99% could result in thermal protections being triggered. There could be a small/large amount of people who end up with fried hardware. The only time I have EVER seen 99%~100% cpu core usage came in the form of running SETI@HOME / @Folding / BOINC type applications. I hope enough gaming sites / tech sites cover this area of gloom and doom, otherwise that ultra-l33t gaming session could very well be some peoples last……………………………

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 22 May 2015 14:52:00 +0000

In reply to You Are Flat Out Wrong. There are times you let your fanboi flag fly high and then there are times like this when you post even-handed, spot on observations which is why i upvoted your post.

By: Pops

Pops — Thu, 21 May 2015 20:08:00 +0000

I predict its goiog to be about the same.theres no bench marks and they are already trying to hype it up.I dont think vulkan has a chance.they should just scrap it

By: Starman

Starman — Thu, 21 May 2015 12:32:00 +0000

We’ve been through this already ….’Vulcan” is a joke ….Any article to take the thunder away from MS / XB1 …Another INDIE DEV on sabotage patrol ….

By: James

James — Thu, 21 May 2015 12:08:00 +0000

1) CPU cores can be saturated at 99% for every core
2) GPU can talk to all cores at once.
3) Asynchronous Shading – multi-threaded shading/physics tasks
4) Volume Tiled Resources – reduces memory footprint
5) ExecuteIndirect – allows higher job count per API draw call
6) Multi-Adapter – allows all GPU’s intergrated and discrete to behave as 1 GPU

By: You Are Flat Out Wrong

You Are Flat Out Wrong — Thu, 21 May 2015 09:44:00 +0000

Vulkan will be great. It’s impact depends if Khronos is competent enough to support hardware properly since OGL ran awful on AMD hardware and had bad stagnation issues. DICE already said DX 12 has an aggressive updating schedule so if they can’t deliver updates in time. More likely is that companies will support both. Two great PC API’s. May as well let the player choose instead of forcing one.

Of course, Sony peasants will never EVER get Vulkan and morons like John Derp will continue to try talk about things he knows nothing about. I look forward to his frustrated delusions because PC gamers will likely be dual booting Win 10 and a Linux+GNU variant by the end of the year :^)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 21 May 2015 09:05:00 +0000

Asynchronous Compute, efficient multi-threading, Volume Tiled Resources…..of course graphics will be better with this.