• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    We already do?

    DXVK and VKD3D have been translating DirectX 9-12 to Vulkan for a while now, allowing DirectX games and applications to run on hardware and/or operating systems that don’t support DirectX.

    Intels ARC GPUs don’t even support DirectX on a hardware level, like it’s just straight up not there. Intels drivers instead just translate it to Vulkan, and their at times insane FPS boosts from driver updates was due to them improving that translation and getting closer to 1:1 performance.

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      5 months ago

      At times, yes. But at most times, no. Certain games can capitalize on ARC and I was just as enthusiastic as everyone else when it first started making the rounds. But theres a reason the cards haven’t caught on and most people seem to rely on them more for offloading things like streaming and AV1 encoding/decoding

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        5 months ago

        They’re new.

        I didn’t claim they’re worth recommending yet. AFAIK they’re pretty great now, and with more issues worked out on the hardware side, Battlemage has great potential.