Lupin Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Maybe I missed something, so I would like to ask if Ultra, in addition to Vulkan, has a planned OpenGL 4.6 backend ? I wouldn't have bothered you with this question if I hadn't noticed the mention in the thread: Quote ... it looks like OpenGL 4.6 gives AMD a major performance boost and runs about the same as Vulkan on Nvidia cards in these tests. Personally I think that such an "legacy" backend would be a reasonable addition. This would provide the potential ability to run applications on a wider hardware base, so engine would therefore be an solution not only for games requiring high performance, but also for casual indie games, including retro-style. Anyway, if this is indeed the plan, would it be possible in future to select/force the engine to use a specific backend on initialization (something like: use OpenGL, Vulkan or Auto/default)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderPig Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Ultra 0.9.5 currently uses OpenGL 4.6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupin Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 Really? A nice surprise, I must have missed some memo... ;-) Is this currently the default backend or only for Intel/AMD? My point is that I would personally prefer OGL on NVidia as well due to the pre-GTX 9xx models (if it were possible, OGL 4.6 is supported from 14-year old 4xx). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Josh Posted March 15 Solution Share Posted March 15 OpenGL 4.6 is the only renderer in version 0.9.5. I talked about it for an hour in this video: To support older hardware, I just need to write one alternative code path for systems that don't support bindless textures. OpenGL 4.6 support goes all the way back to: Nvidia GEForce 420 AMD Radeon RX 5300M Intel HD Graphics 520 2 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupin Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 Thanks for the explanation, I feel embarrassed that I haven't followed the news for a while. I watched the video, it's great stuff and I'm really glad that the engine went in this direction. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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