#IS DIRECTX 12 WORTH IT CODE#

The minor performance regression is very well worth it to any level-headed developer because it is guaranteed performance will improve in the future (combination of developers, H/W and kernel/driver releases) and the code portability you gain by using Vulkan would be tremendous (easily worth > millions of dollars to AAA developers) because now porting a game to/from Android, Windows and Linux would mean one less layer of code to worry about + added perk of easier multi-OS releases. Vulkan + a third-party DX9-esque abstraction layer/wrapper would be my (or any indie developers) first choice followed by OpenGL/DX9, DX11 and then finally DX12.

#IS DIRECTX 12 WORTH IT PORTABLE#

As a developer you want:Р”РЋ) compatible - something that works with a large array of devices, could also be backwards compat.Р”Сћ) portable - can be ported to many platforms without too much hassleР”Р€) extensible - no need to use hacks to extend functionalityР”В¤) adopted standards - a fixed SDK with major versions being released when needed, usually mean a lot of 3rd party library supportР”Тђ) support - if the hardware doesn't support it (or vice versa) chances are it isn't extensible nor portableР”ВX12 is not portable and not fully compatible with a large array of devices because of its OS restrictions. This isn't a yes or no question you're asking. Replacing shader programs and in-flight command restructuring is still a thing. DX12 is very far from Assembler code, it's just lower level compared to DX11 with a direct access to memory. Tweaks will always be neccessary to get the best performance out of a specific card, but I fear there's this general misconception over DX12 in that it locks Nvidia and AMD out of optimizations from their end. I don't see a sign that a GPU of generation +2 does something so immensely different to the current generation that it won't run current gen games at superior fps. Modern GPUs are increasingly capable of general compute tasks and reprogrammability. Sounds familiar? It's way too early to see if DX12 fails.Р”Р„s for hardware support, I counter with trends. Developers of RTS games spearheaded DX11 adoption along with the Frostbite engine. It took well over two years until we had 33 games with DX11 support. Here's an article from a couple years ago:

#IS DIRECTX 12 WORTH IT UPDATE#

Along its way many were sceptical because of how it forced you to update from XP to 7. It took roundabout six years for DX9 to be completely replaced by DX11. Will DirectX12 be relegated to DirectX10 like status? Used but not the main API? Not sure if that was ever fixed but if it was I don't think that will be the case for every game that uses a low level API. GCN 1.2 didn't do so hot in mantle with BF4 defaulting to D3D instead of mantle on GCN 1.2 cards. GPUs do eventually change architecture and when they do will all the optimizations the developer did for the then current GPUs apply to the new GPUs with new architectures? There is evidence already to suggest no.

#IS DIRECTX 12 WORTH IT DRIVER#

Is it really better to have a low level API and shovel more work on developers and hope they get everything right and come out with a performance boost? Or have the vendor do most of the work with their driver and give the developer more time to do other things?Р”Р„nother concern is about architecture. Since the onus is now all on developers to do things that were traditionally done by the driver there seems to be a certain level of skill is required to even get a benefit out of the API and not every developer has the skills or resources. It seems every game release with DirectX 12 has been problematic or divisive in some way.

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