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

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nanarchy said:

Ruler said:

openGL was fuckup?

yes OpenGl constantly lags in features and performance. They usually eventually catch up but rarely are they leading.

Ruler said:

 that is all consoles are running on including Xbox One in the earlier games

think you might have to provide a citation for that. Xbox doesn't support and has never had an OpenGL framework written for it to my knowledge.

 

OpenGL has a problem, really: It's open.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/182343-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-valve-programmer-discusses-wretched-state-of-opengl

http://richg42.blogspot.de/2014/05/things-that-drive-me-nuts-about-opengl.html

http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154