Valve’s Dan Ginsburg: “Not much reason to ever create a DX12 back end for your game”, Praises Vulkan

[nanarchy]

Scisca said:

nanarchy said:

You might need a pretty big reality check if you think most games will be vulkan based in the next few years . Even if it is completely successfull it will be long after win 7 is dead and buried that the majority of games will support vulkan. once out of support it is extremely unlikely they will be releasing vulkan updates for win 7 either.

Considering even Win XP isn't dead yet, I'm quite confident that fan favourite Win 7 will remain alive for quite some time. Especially if MS keeps forcing its ridiculous invigilation policies.

I gather you are talking about the stats etc that flows out of win 10 (i.e. the same stats that they patched win 7 and 8 to provide a few months ago). From a gaming perspective XP is dead. If you are happy to live on old tech and not get any of the newer games then go for it,  but I doubt Vulkan will be your saviour as they are going to struggle to support all the current platforms let alone try and support End of Life products.