Yesterday the Vulkan Specification launched, with driver support from all major graphics manufacturers and even an update to Croteam's The Talos Principle that allowed the game to use the new API. Vulkan is the first Multiplatform Next Generation API, not being locked to one hardware manufacturer like AMD's Mantle or Apple's Metal API, or locked to a single OS like Microsoft's DirectX, allowing gamers to benefit from the improvements made in modern APIs regardless of what gaming platform you are using, be it Android, Apple, Linux or Windows. Here is where Vulkan comes into the picture. Those outside of the Windows platform desperately needed a new graphical API with these next generation features, allowing gaming workloads to be carried out in a more efficient and a faster way. These two new APIs only benefit a small number of people, with DirectX12 only working for those using Windows 10 and AMD's mantle only Working on AMD users on Windows. and they're one of the few I trust when they say it.Graphics APIs have been a huge topic of discussion for PC enthusiasts over the past few years, with AMD's recent Mantle API and Microsoft's DirectX 12 API already having proven performance advantages on the PC platform. How close are they now? I mean, they'd probably always say 'not even close' but they even said in OpenGL 'we can not get closer'.

It's quite some time since they said they're not even close, and they seem to get closer. I would love to know though what experiences they made, Vulkan Windows/Linux and especially how they judge their 'progression' now.

so to say, great technology, which speaks for itself. Not very talky often, but always fun in their comments and. I wish we could get them to an interview one day. I love their open communication, beta-build and development things. Which they said they would because they were waiting for this for years (so they maybe had plans - at least the developers who wanted to work on this). They're starting to show what's possible, means they've very likely started to recode huge portions of their core. They told when released they're not even close to what can become of a proper Vulkan solutoins because they were basically wrapping DX11.

Talos principle performance settings