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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by shmerl on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:43PM (#12954041)
> it doesn't matter what runs underneath

You keep repeating it, but it's nonsense, because it always matters how hard is for the engine to target multiple platforms.

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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by pjmlp on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:08AM (#12956204)
It is nonsense to you, because all your arguments fail flat when there is an abstraction layer that hides away what actual APIs are being used.

Yet that is what professional game developers care about, not API wars.

Maybe you should attend a GDC event.

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Re:Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs by shmerl on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:13PM (#12961189)
Again, try working on that abstraction layer, and then you'll see what it takes. Claims that it's trivial or it's normal and should be that way have no substance. It's like saying that Web developers enjoy browsers not following standards and the need to address all those quirks is trivial. No normal developer wants that.
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