Comments on: PS4 Should Support Vulkan, PS4’s API Not Completely Native For Current Gen Yet: Brad Wardell

By: thowedthanka

thowedthanka — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:10:00 +0000

In reply to Evan_Beezy. the whole goal of vulkan is to be platform indepedent and a direct way to interface with the gpu, they shouldnt care at all about ps or xbox. its up to sony/microsoft/gpu makers to provide the drivers.

By: Michael Norris

Michael Norris — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 06:23:00 +0000

In reply to Tiberian_Fiend. Eh you are off a bit,yes both consoles are weak compared to a mid range Pc but i am sure Gpgpu will take off at some point. That should help a lot with the Cpu bottleneck.

By: Michael Norris

Michael Norris — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 06:21:00 +0000

In reply to GotNews4Ya. Oh its at least the same as DX12 my guess its lower.

By: Evan_Beezy

Evan_Beezy — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:32:00 +0000

Also as the Dev techniques will be streamlined for these updated multicore api’s they will have more time and will be able to optimize further since they can focus all their resources on parallelilized computing architectures and api’s instead on serial computing… I believe.

By: Evan_Beezy

Evan_Beezy — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:28:00 +0000

In reply to John Nemesh. I'm sure khronos group and all the developers though will do things to optimize Vulkan further for ps4 with specific stuff. XB1 too. I'm not the developer with the insight though. Either way even with the current a api's, it looks like we've all got a bit to look forward too.

By: GHz

GHz — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:31:00 +0000

In reply to Kidd. Nope! DX12 is an API that also supports DX11. So you can develope in DX12 and later adjust to the DX11+ machines like the PS4. Features that are available to the XB1 via DX12 that may not be available to the Ps4 would be the only concern, but thats not really a big problem I think. Devs are crafty @ finding solutions if time & budget permits it.

By: qepsilonp

qepsilonp — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:30:00 +0000

What I’m taking from this is that the consoles are literately DRM locked PC’s the hardware is PC the OS is a Unix based OS Orbis OS which is modified version of FreeBSD which is PC and there taking up Vulkun as an API which is a PC API.

They are just entry level DRM locked PC’s which you can’t upgrade.

By: Kidd

Kidd — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 03:02:00 +0000

In reply to GHz. Don't mean to bug you but what will sony do? You, think interms of microsofts Dx12 wont ps4 be left behind?

By: You Are Flat Out Wrong

You Are Flat Out Wrong — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:46:00 +0000

In reply to Sunny. It's funny how Sony shills never admit there is a downgrade even when the game halves the framerate

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 01:38:00 +0000

In reply to You Are Flat Out Wrong. It's funny how PC beggars make a comparison from a real-time in-engine cutscene compared to gameplay on a different time of weather and lighting placement, cutscene will always outdo gameplay