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There’s a little bit at the end of the article saying Khronos is doing the same thing to put Vulkan on top of DX12.

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Shouldn't it be the other way around? Or does it nor matter?

My guess is that's for xbox - because that would be the only current platform without Vulkan support left.

DX over Vulkan for non-windows is being worked on too, just not by Khronos:

https://github.com/disks86/VK9

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

and VKD3D for DX12 on Wine

It’s for Windows Store.

Windows supports Vulkan but to get onto the Windows Store you can only use DX12.

Is anyone else miffed that the DX on VK projects all use different nomenclature? Its impossible to tell from the name dxvk or vkd3d what version it supports. If they were named VK9, VK11, AND VK12 respectively it would be obvious. Or any permutation of their names and that paradigm - VKDX9, VX9, etc.

I'd say Khronos is doing an entirely different thing for DX12 since there is no existing library to open source :)

What is the use case for that? Running Vulkan within UWP apps?

Porting Vulkan applications to the Xbox One maybe?

Yes, as explained in the article:

> While Windows, unlike macOS, does have Vulkan drivers from GPU companies, applications sold through the Microsoft Store are only permitted to use DirectX.

Simple solution = installing operating systems that support open standards.

People making games need to make those games for platforms people play on.

You as a user can move to Linux, and game developers should support Linux, but a game which can only be played on Linux and *BSD will be incredibly unsuccessful.

It's called Vulkan.

You're not a gamer, are you ?

Gamers use steam, not the windows store.

Yes, I am well-versed. You can play many games in Linux and I have Steam installed on my Arch distro with latest stable kernel and graphics drivers, and they are all automatically updated using my package manager and aurutils for extended third-party. It is so much faster than PowerShell, and my i3 windows manager is much more efficient.

I just got new laptops that will support both GVT-G and PCI passthrough via OVMF so that I can run my bloatware OS in a KVM VM but still get full 3D acceleration. Hopefully Microsoft decides to contribute heavily back to Wine, or maybe open source their 4GB spyware beast to understand what it is actually doing that makes it so large compared to my distro, which does everything Windows does in much less resources both storage and compute.

Windows 10S, future Windows Polaris, and XBox One don't allow for native Vulkan/GL drivers.

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