Cryengine support Mantle

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https://twitter.com/x/status/446391703453184000

Another engine sporting Mantle

 

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Couldn't you keep the news in the GDC/Mantle thread? Must we have another Mantle thread every day?

There's new Mantle news every day

I reported my own post, didn't see you post this in the GDC thread

 

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Crytek adopting Mantle deserves it's own thread, massive win for AMD.

That's Crytek signed up, add it to the list that contains EA/Frostbite/Eidos/Oxide Games/Chris Roberts(Star Citizen)/Rebellion...




NEXT...

Who is next? that's just about all the big ones isn't it?

 

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Fixed.

On a serious note could this have anything to do with the rumours about Mantle and DX12.

lol...

On a serious note could this have anything to do with the rumours about Mantle and DX12.

Don't get me going Kaap...

Unreal,Unity,Ubisoft engines

Unreal, that would be a shock, the other two, well they might start feeling a bit lonely now.

Your sounding like it's 'dead in the water' there humbug!

I'm such a pessimist.

 

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Looks like amd and mantle is the way forward In Future games then. I cannot see any other way gaming on the PC is going other than a split between mantle and dx titles ( right now ) as not many people with amd cards are going to buy dx games, And not many nvidia users will pay for a mantle game.

No split, Mantle Games will also support DX, No reason why an Nvidia user should not buy a Mantle game.

What is interesting is that another big developer is sporting Mantle when MS have a talk on updating DX today.

Is it that they don't think what MS is doing is enough or is it that Mantle will get absorbed into DX12 and they are getting on the wagon now.

in more news...

AMD And Crytek Announce Mantle Support For Cryengine-Powered Games

Nvidia may have just announced GameWorks support will be baked into Unreal Engine 4, but the Red Team is firing back with its own announcement today: Upcoming versions of Cryengine will support AMD's Mantle API. Just to be clear, this announcement refers to an upcoming engine that hasn't been used for a shipping title yet -- Cryengine 3, the engine that powered Crysis 3, has been retired in favor of a new-from-the-ground-up approach.

The new CryEngine will support the Xbox One, PS4, Wii U, and PC spaces and we're honestly a bit surprised to see Crytek jumping onboard with AMD. I spoke to Crytek representatives when I attended APU13, and while they were very interested to see what Sunnyvale had to say about its next-generation API, they were also cautious. I was told that Crytek was extremely careful when it came to adopting new standards because those technologies had to fit within the company's workflow without making it too difficult to support multiple vendors or relying on flashy but limited tricks of creating one specific effect or capability. Crytek, in other words, was only interested in supporting standards that were flexible, scalable, and delivered a high enough performance improvement to be interesting. I was left with the impression that the company was still in "Wait and see" mode last November.

Evidently they've seen enough.

"Crytek prides itself on enabling CRYENGINE with the latest and most impressive rendering capabilities,” said Cevat Yerli, Founder, CEO & President of Crytek. “By integrating AMD’s new Mantle API, CRYENGINE will gain a dimension of ‘lower level’ hardware access that enables extraordinary efficiency, performance and hardware control."

Right now, we don't know how many upcoming Cryengine games will use Mantle, or if support will be patched in to later dates. Cryengine-based games expected in 2014 include Homefront 2, Evolve, and Star Citizen (this last was already known as a Mantle title). The open-world roleplaying game Kingdom Come: Deliverance is expected in late 2015.

I think that speaks volumes...


http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-And-Crytek-Announce-Mantle-Support-For-CryenginePowered-Games/