In a forum post over on the programming forums for Star Citizen, director of graphics engineering Ali Brown has announced that Star Citizen will now use Khronos' Vulkan API, rather than switching to ...

The advent of low-level APIs such as DirectX 12 and Vulkan have the potential to revolutionize the way modern games scale across various hardware setups. Clearly the gains compared to DirectX 11 are ...

Valve was at SIGGRAPH this year, with Dan Ginsburg having some interesting things to say about the various APIs at their fingertips including DirectX 12 and Vulkan. In the video above (1:40:01 into ...

While much of the emphasis involving game development these days seems to revolve around DirectX 12, the competing Vulkan API has been lurking in the shadows, ready to strike at a moment's notice. Up ...

With every new graphics API being launched, new benchmarks are imperative. In order to understand how our hardware really performs, benchmarks must be designed with the API being tested in mind. This ...

The most successful game in crowdfunding history is giving up on Microsoft’s DirectX graphics platform to go all-in on Vulkan. Cloud Imperium Games, the developers of Star Citizen, recently said on ...

While Microsoft's DirectX 12 may have been the first low-level API to appear on PC (excepting AMD's proprietary Mantle API), its arch-rival Vulkan is potentially more interesting. Vulkan promises to ...

Crytek has updated its roadmap detailing what we can expect from the upcoming releases of CRYENGINE 5.6 and 5.7, with the upcoming CRYENGINE 5.6 providing some new features and support but the future ...

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There's a new version of ReShade available, and chances are it'll help boost performance, regardless of what game you're using it on. ReShade 4.5 includes a host of tweaks and changes, and they'll ...

Synthetic benchmark specialist Futuremark is reportedly preparing some new components for its 3DMark benchmark suite. 'The Gamer's Benchmark' will be expanded with a couple of worthy additions, ...

It appears that Futuremark will reveal a couple of new tests that will be a part of its 3DMark benchmark and take advantage of both DirectX 12 as well as Vulkan API. According to a report coming from ...