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CryEngine to Support Vulkan This November, DX12 Multi-GPU Next February
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"Imposters for vegetation." Heh.
EDIT: More seriously, this is pretty significant. The big engine studios are going Vulkan and DX12 as we knew they would. (Well, there was uncertainty with Vulkan). That's going to open up some nice new performance levels.
I think it means Brazo.
I don't speak Spanish?
It appears that Vulcan benefits AMD more than Nvidia see link below, is this due to async?. If Volta has a proper implementation of hardware async, would the results than be more similar across the board?
http://www.pcgamesn.com/doom-vulkan-benchmarks
http://www.pcgamesn.com/doom-vulkan-benchmarks
Doom is just one game.
It is also originally an OpenGL game, not DX11, which holds back AMD cards more than it does Nvidia ones.
Vulkan's benefits will be on a per-implementation basis, just like DX12.
Good news, the only down side is how long it takes for games to be developed and if Vulkan is only just being added for the 5.3 November release, how long will it be before we see any decent games using it.
For example Doom was first announced in 2008, then cancelled, but development completely restarted in 2011. The game as we now know it was first shown in 2014.
Not a good example, but it does give the idea that games can take a long time to get right.
By contrast Dice revealed that they were working on an unannounced game in June 2015, that game turned out to be Battlefield one.
So a couple of years from now we might get some decent Vulkan games and DX12 games.
That thought kinda puts the whole GPU future proofing discussion in a different light.
For example Doom was first announced in 2008, then cancelled, but development completely restarted in 2011. The game as we now know it was first shown in 2014.
Not a good example, but it does give the idea that games can take a long time to get right.
By contrast Dice revealed that they were working on an unannounced game in June 2015, that game turned out to be Battlefield one.
So a couple of years from now we might get some decent Vulkan games and DX12 games.
That thought kinda puts the whole GPU future proofing discussion in a different light.
It is A-Synchronous shading, yes.
Given all consoles run AMD hardware at the base level most games will be developed with such technology to get the most out of the hardware.
So yes looking ahead i think we may see a lot more of it.
As for Volta. A-Synchronous shading is AMD IP, depending on the specifics of that IP Nvidia may never have it unless AMD say so.
####### no idea
Imposters in rendering are usually used for 1 of 2 different techniques both related to performance - either "off screen" fakes used to speed up or fake up lighting techniques or low detail (i.e. billboard) variants of a mesh used when the viewer ostensibly can't tell the difference visually.
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Ah.... got it ^^^^ thank you 
I'm still managing to port my projects, which was started on 3.5.6, ported all the way through 3.6.# - 3.7.# - 3.8.# - 5.0 - 5.1 and currently on 5.2.1.
I have now, admittedly with a lot of work managed to get DX12 running properly on my project.
As its running in Cryengine 5 (5.2.1 now) porting to 5.3 with Vulkan should not be too difficult given 5 is the core engine for DX12 and Vulkan, so its been largely made ready.
It shouldn't really be any different for an dev with projects on the go, in fact i know of a lot of Cryengine devs who are porting their projects into successive revisions of the engine.
I'm still managing to port my projects, which was started on 3.5.6, ported all the way through 3.6.# - 3.7.# - 3.8.# - 5.0 - 5.1 and currently on 5.2.1.
I have now, admittedly with a lot of work managed to get DX12 running properly on my project.
As its running in Cryengine 5 (5.2.1 now) porting to 5.3 with Vulkan should not be too difficult given 5 is the core engine for DX12 and Vulkan, so its been largely made ready.
It shouldn't really be any different for an dev with projects on the go, in fact i know of a lot of Cryengine devs who are porting their projects into successive revisions of the engine.
You can turn off async shaders in Doom and it definitely does not make up the bulk of the improvement. The improvement seems largely due to not being reliant on AMD's poor OpenGL drivers anymore.
How much ^^^^ ?
Obviously this need a lot more work, especially on the lighting. Gloabal Illumination has not yet been ported to GPU render pass in DX12 so its off, i'm using basic Light Probes, or Cube Maps if you like...
It should have been done in 5.2, which this is but its delayed.
Still, here it is in DX12.
Obviously this need a lot more work, especially on the lighting. Gloabal Illumination has not yet been ported to GPU render pass in DX12 so its off, i'm using basic Light Probes, or Cube Maps if you like...
It should have been done in 5.2, which this is but its delayed.
Still, here it is in DX12.