Technical : Why not Vulkan API instead of DX11 ?

Wiki has an article on vulkan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API) and on games using vulkan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_Vulkan_support

If we take POEs "one year" as the development time for a graphics engine, that list will brobably start to grow in february 2017, if not earlier.

With all the compability issues experienced by many users switching to win10 and given the privacy concerns related to the inner workings of that OS version, there have been a lot of people migrating to other operating systems.

Porting to openGL or Vulkan, or even just abstracting the renderer some more would certainly help POE in the long term.

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fkxCrockett wrote:

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Gilgamesjh wrote:

Btw, for a pretty in-depth discussion of what the current limitations on POE and it's engine, watch the Lioneye's Watch podcast from yesterday with Jonathan as a guest, it gives a lot of details.

That's why I started this thread, I was listening the stream and thought it's too bad they don't spend that time to make something more modern. Vulkan offer more optimisation capabilities for the long term.

In the same kind of idea, it would be nice to optimize the particle engine with OpenCL.

Of course it cost time and money, but at the end that's the difference between a bad and a good graphic engine.

This was my thinking, it's like upgrading your 1992 Honda Accord to a 2002 model rather than just going all the way in and buying a brand new one. Yeah you're trading up a 25 year old car for a 15 year old car, but why not go all in and get one that's not even a year old?