Why dont game developers support Vulkan more then DX?

[Cyber2B]

DX has been here for years and hasnt really improved for gaming.

Vulkan is still brand new and it has proven itself to be a very effective API for gaming and benefits for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.

Not to mention Vulkan supports Linux unlike the latest DX being locked to only Microsoft.

I hope more devs utilize this universal API better.

[Washell]

Originally posted by TenzoG:

DX has been here for years
Vulkan is still brand new

Post an ad for a DX developer, and dozens show up. Post an ad for a Vulkan developer, and you get a handful. If you need to hire a team, doing it in DX lets you set the salaries. Doing it in Vulkan means paying what they ask. It's basic economics.

[Gwarsbane]

No game devs view this section so posting this here is pointless (this is the suggestion and ideas area to make the steam client and website better). In fact there is no actual place where you could post this on the steam forums that they would see it other then each and every individual games discussion area.

Best you could do is go ask a few big gaming news sites to ask this question and see if game makers will respond.

[E3kHatena]

DX devs have spent years developing for DX. OpenGL devs have spent years developing for OpenGL. Vulkan is still really new, and most devs have picked one of the former options and stuck with it. It's like asking why Mastodon isn't doing well over Twitter. It's subjectively a better platform, sure, but there's tons and tons of people who use Twitter and its APIs and that flexibility and that much documentation keeps it successful. Vulkan is a more capable rendering tool, but the vast majority of developers use OpenGL and DirectX when it comes to renderer programming and more video cards support those two over Vulkan.

[WhispersOfTheWind]

Probably because that's where the profit ist.

[Crescent Luna]

Who tf uses linux for gaming

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Kiyaro:

Who tf uses linux for gaming

Many boys & gals use Linux for gaming.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/

[Kargor]

Originally posted by TenzoG:

DX has been here for years and hasnt really improved for gaming.

Vulkan is still brand new and it has proven itself to be a very effective API for gaming and benefits for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.

... on new systems. Most systems out there don't support it.

[Cyber2B]

Originally posted by E3kHatena:

DX devs have spent years developing for DX. OpenGL devs have spent years developing for OpenGL. Vulkan is still really new, and most devs have picked one of the former options and stuck with it. It's like asking why Mastodon isn't doing well over Twitter. It's subjectively a better platform, sure, but there's tons and tons of people who use Twitter and its APIs and that flexibility and that much documentation keeps it successful. Vulkan is a more capable rendering tool, but the vast majority of developers use OpenGL and DirectX when it comes to renderer programming and more video cards support those two over Vulkan.

Objectivly Vulkan gives more FPS aka performance then DX12 for both AMD and Nvidia. So there is nothing subjective about that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54oU4XAWmM8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7vPYnMe6E It seems to work for a 7 year old AMD GPU.

Anyways im just saying it should be supported more because its cross-platform, meaning it can work for linux and mac, which I as a gamer support because Win10 is starting to annoy me when it tries to "assist" with driver updates and somehow bricks my OS. Plus the anti privacy they have on their OS.

If it were to go under, or I just get fed up with their BS, thats why I want things like Vulkan to be supported across OSs.