Any plans to use the Vulkan API and move away from Direct X?

deathcow

deathcow
Hi

I was wondering if Frontier have any plans to use the Vulkan API in place of Direct X. The reason I ask is that it would allow Elite Dangerous to be supported under Linux using the Steam Proton. At the moment Elite is not working at all under Proton I would love to switch to Ubuntu. If Elite use Vulkan their is no bottleneck using Proton as it directly using Vulkan anyway.

Anyway food for thought.

DC out.
 

Misty_Dark

Misty_Dark
deathcow said:
Hi

I was wondering if Frontier have any plans to use the Vulkan API in place of Direct X. The reason I ask is that it would allow Elite Dangerous to be supported under Linux using the Steam Proton. At the moment Elite is not working at all under Proton I would love to switch to Ubuntu. If Elite use Vulkan their is no bottleneck using Proton as it directly using Vulkan anyway.

Anyway food for thought.

DC out.
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Then they would have to code against 3 different API's...

DirectX on XBox
GNM/GNMX on PS4

And your suggestion, Vulkan on Windows.


And is the Graphics API what is causing the problems with running ED in Wine/Proton?
 
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