Star Citizen is going to support AMDs Mantle API

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Definition:

Kill Off: To destroy in such large numbers as to render extinct.

 

Kinda hard to misinterpret that. The fact is, DirectX ain't going anywhere. It won't cease to exist. It won't just stop being used. The difference in your example is you said STOP MAKING, not KILL OFF. Big huge difference in the English Language. The problem is, people are putting Mantle on a pedestal without ANY PROOF of performance, or what it can and can't do. Lets say it gives a 2 fps boost in performance, is it worth destroying DirectX and ALL the other APIs for 2 FPS? The evolution of technology and code... well, lets say that one API will NOT fit the bill for each game nor each system. Heck, a year from now we could have DirectX destroying Mantle. But lets kill it off, so there is no competition, and the ONLY API that should be used is Mantle. Hey, doesn't matter Mantle is AMD only and really only accesses AMD GPUs, right? DirectX, NVAPI, OpenCL, lets cut them out. I wonder whats going to happen. You know competition drives innovation, right?

 

If Mantle gives a great FPS boost, thats going to be awesome. But not the best thing in the world. Mantle doesn't solve issues that need to be solved.

 

Maybe instead of you know, "Mantle is the best thing in the world, lets kill off DirectX," why don't we wait and see what Mantle brings to the table and what it does, and doesn't do and put it up against other APIs and solutions. But hey, I am stupid for some reason.

Or we should first start using DX11.1 and DX11.2.

DX11.1 gives up to 50% peformance boost in BF4 multiplayer.(And they only use it on software level to get more use of the CPU)

And DX11.2 tiled resources will be a must for Next Gen games on all cards that are older then Maxwell, because of the shared ram that the next gen consoles have.