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You're right. I did some graphics work in my last job. OpenGL2 is supported by just about every device made in the last 15 years, on every major operating syst
by AussieWog93 5y ago
You're right.
I did some graphics work in my last job. OpenGL2 is supported by just about every device made in the last 15 years, on every major operating system, including software OpenGL in VMs.
Vulkan is not officially supported on OSX (although there is an unofficial port that is quite good, from what I understand) and only runs on modern hardware.
- badsectoracula 5y agoAnd by "modern" we really mean released the last few years. For example it doesn't run on my 2013 laptop (has a 660M GPU, Nvidia supports Vulkan only from 7xx series) or my (late) 2016 GPD Win (technically there is Vulkan 1.0 support under Linux but not under Windows and AFAIK even the Linux driver has issues).
- ninepoints 5y ago> Vulkan is not officially supported on OSX And neither is OpenGL
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoDeprecated, not unsupported. And, like, Apple ported OpenGL to Apple Silicon macs. I suspect it's going to stick around, it's just never, ever going to get updated.
- ninepoints 5y agoYou're kidding. The OpenGL implementation/support of Mac is pretty nonexistent/poor.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoIt’s OpenGL 3.3. It works as well as OpenGL 3.3 does anywhere else. It’s an old version, but it certainly exists, and it’s what many/most Mac games still use because it’s cross platform.
- bsder 5y agoThe MoltenVK guys originally got their start creating a commercial offering of OpenGL on top of Metal so that you could skip the Apple OpenGL system. Yeah, that's how crap Apple support for OpenGL is.