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> A GPU supporting Direct3D 12.0 (Shader Model 6) or Vulkan 1.2 is required to run this project

This seems to be a rather high requirement for what is essentially a 1990s video game, could you elaborate on why this is needed?

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Although not released yet, the render engine[1] is being extended to support new texture-packs and especially ray-tracing. Which seems to be the reason they targeted the more modern APIs.

1. https://github.com/rt64/rt64

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