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https://www.lunarg.com/faqs/microsoft-support-vulkan/ https://www.lunarg.com/faqs/microsoft-support-vulkan/ Microsoft won't support Vulkan officially, and apps

by om2 10y ago

https://www.lunarg.com/faqs/microsoft-support-vulkan/ https://www.lunarg.com/faqs/microsoft-support-vulkan/ Microsoft won't support Vulkan officially, and apps would have to install their own Vulkan drivers.

Kubuxu 10y ago
Not true, Vulcan drivers are included in drivers of the GPU manufacturer.
- MBCook 10y ago
  No, Nvidia and AMD including Vulcan drivers. Intel isn't and said they don't plan to. Intel has a HUGE market share thanks to integrated graphics. There are other companies too.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - ioquatix 10y ago
    According to https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/developing-games-and-graphics-on-intel/topic/696380 https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/developing-games-and... Intel DOES plan on releasing official production quality drivers at some point.
    - pjmlp 10y ago
      Planning and actually releasing is not the same thing.
      - ioquatix 10y ago
        They HAVE released drivers, I've used them on both Windows and Linux.
        pjmlp 10y ago
        For developers, to try them out, not to the overall public.
  - saurik 10y ago
    > https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/03/14/new-intel-vulkan-beta-1540204404-graphics-driver-for-windows-78110-1540 https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/03/14/new-intel-... "DATE: March 11, 2016" "-NEW- Intel® Vulkan BETA 15.40.20.4404 Graphics Driver for Windows® 7/8.1/10 [15.40]" > https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/06/29/new-intel-graphics-test-driverdriver-for-windows-10-and-windows-781-15404473 https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/06/29/new-intel-... "DATE: June 24 2016" "-NEW- Intel® Graphics Test Driver for Windows® 10 and Windows 7/8.1 [15.40.4473]" https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/06/23/intel-open-source-graphics-drivers-and-vulkan-graphics-api https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/06/23/intel-open... "In his blog published on February 16, 2016, Imad Sousou shared that Intel was selected as one of the leading graphics platform suppliers with Vulkan* 1.0 drivers certified by the Khronos Group Consortium." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOTVpepS44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOTVpepS44 "We are demoing Intel’s implementation of the API available on the latest hardware from Intel on 3 major operating systems: Windows, Linux and Android." Intel Engineer: "This really shows the industry is moving towards Vulkan." https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod... Intel sure seems to have been making sure all of their chips are now Vulkan capable. All I can find for "they don't plan to" are what seems like rumors on one forum that are spawned by the current drivers being "unsupported" (but given that they are in beta, that makes sense to me: the storyline here is that they were provided for Vulkan developers to start testing their products and likely testing this driver). It really seems like Intel is at worst being "a little slow" to push Vulkan, but they are definitely not unsupportive.
  - monocasa 10y ago
    > There are other companies too. In addition to what people have said about Intel, Qualcomm, ARM, and IMG are all behind Vulkan. Who else is making GPUs these days?

by om2 10y ago

Kubuxu 10y ago

Not true, Vulcan drivers are included in drivers of the GPU manufacturer.

MBCook 10y ago
No, Nvidia and AMD including Vulcan drivers. Intel isn't and said they don't plan to. Intel has a HUGE market share thanks to integrated graphics. There are other companies too.
- deleted 10y ago
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- ioquatix 10y ago
  According to https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/developing-games-and-graphics-on-intel/topic/696380 https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/developing-games-and... Intel DOES plan on releasing official production quality drivers at some point.
  - pjmlp 10y ago
    Planning and actually releasing is not the same thing.
    - ioquatix 10y ago
      They HAVE released drivers, I've used them on both Windows and Linux.
      - pjmlp 10y ago
        For developers, to try them out, not to the overall public.
- saurik 10y ago
  > https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/03/14/new-intel-vulkan-beta-1540204404-graphics-driver-for-windows-78110-1540 https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/03/14/new-intel-... "DATE: March 11, 2016" "-NEW- Intel® Vulkan BETA 15.40.20.4404 Graphics Driver for Windows® 7/8.1/10 [15.40]" > https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/06/29/new-intel-graphics-test-driverdriver-for-windows-10-and-windows-781-15404473 https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/06/29/new-intel-... "DATE: June 24 2016" "-NEW- Intel® Graphics Test Driver for Windows® 10 and Windows 7/8.1 [15.40.4473]" https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/06/23/intel-open-source-graphics-drivers-and-vulkan-graphics-api https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/06/23/intel-open... "In his blog published on February 16, 2016, Imad Sousou shared that Intel was selected as one of the leading graphics platform suppliers with Vulkan* 1.0 drivers certified by the Khronos Group Consortium." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOTVpepS44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOTVpepS44 "We are demoing Intel’s implementation of the API available on the latest hardware from Intel on 3 major operating systems: Windows, Linux and Android." Intel Engineer: "This really shows the industry is moving towards Vulkan." https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod... Intel sure seems to have been making sure all of their chips are now Vulkan capable. All I can find for "they don't plan to" are what seems like rumors on one forum that are spawned by the current drivers being "unsupported" (but given that they are in beta, that makes sense to me: the storyline here is that they were provided for Vulkan developers to start testing their products and likely testing this driver). It really seems like Intel is at worst being "a little slow" to push Vulkan, but they are definitely not unsupportive.
- monocasa 10y ago
  > There are other companies too. In addition to what people have said about Intel, Qualcomm, ARM, and IMG are all behind Vulkan. Who else is making GPUs these days?