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Re:Atlas OS: We redesigned Windows for gaming by bpye on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:34PM (#33722900)
Is this totally true? Vulkan supposedly derives from AMD’s Mantle API. Yes Vulkan and OpenGL have extensions in between major releases, but is that worse?
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Re:Atlas OS: We redesigned Windows for gaming by pjmlp on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:50PM (#33723084)
Yes, coding against extensions means multiple code paths, hardly any different than using multiple APIs when the semantics from multiple vendors don't match 1:1.

https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listextensions.php

https://opengl.gpuinfo.org/listextensions.php

At least with Vulkan they learned why proprietary APIs have profiles.

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