Why aren't more games supporting Vulkan ?
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Hello Allies.
I was was thinking why aren't more games supporting Vulkan ? Its open sourced and it supports many different OS, Windows, Linux, OSX. DirectX 12 only supports windows.
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The short answer is support and install base. There are a lot of Windows systems with Nvidia graphics cards out there, so DX is pretty ubiquitous.
I don't know exactly how the business works, but I would think being open source could hurt a product, if only because it might mean there's less support for it. When you pay an organization for their software, you get a certain amount to technical expertise when problems come up. When it's "open" and you're not paying for it, you're also not paying for support, which might make implementation more difficult.
