Diligent Engine v2.4.e released with Vulkan support on Android

​Diligent Engine was just tagged 2.4.e on Github. With this release comes support for Vulkan on Android. Last October Diligent Engine 2.4.c saw support for macOS via MoltenVK.

Godot Engine - Vulkan Progress Report #7

​Godot Engine has started up their Vulkan Progress Reports after 3 month hiatus. GamingOnLinux touts Godot Engine as making more impressive progress towards Vulkan API support. Godot 4.0 will see many improvements including: using a special screen-space filter to correctly simulate roughness; GLSL shaders (not Godot shaders, real GLSL 4.50+Vulkan extensions) can now be imported and will be automatically imported and converted to SPIR-V when found; allowing you to have low level access to the rendering APIs. Check out the report to learn more.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint gets Vulkan support on Windows

Ubisoft announced Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint on PC now supports Vulkan. You may now choose between DirectX 11 or Vulkan from your launcher upon launching the game. WCCFTech has done up a performance review. The Anvil Next 2.0 engine was officially ported to the Vulkan API for this title.

NVIDIA Vulkan Driver update to Windows 443.09 and Linux 440.66.12

​NVIDIA has released an update for their Vulkan driver. This update includes a bug fix and three new extensions:

• VK_EXT_custom_border_color
• VK_EXT_private_data
• VK_EXT_robustness2

Imagination showcases groundbreaking new OpenGL SC 2.0 driver

Imagination Technologies new OpenGL SC 2.0 safety critical driver development for its automotive GPUs enables automotive OEMs and Tier 1s to benefit from GPU acceleration in safety-critical applications. The OpenGL SC driver demo shows an advanced dashboard with safety-critical elements running on existing automotive silicon. More information can be found in the accompanying blog post. The OpenGL SC 2.0 driver is based on a published Khronos specification and is expected to pass the Khronos Conformance Process when available. Current conformance status can be found at www.khronos.org/conformance.

Diligent Engine v2.4.e is out: Vulkan on Android and C API

Diligent Engine is a modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework. In a recent release, Diligent Engine enabled support of Vulkan on Android to bring the full power of next-gen APIs to mobile platforms. It also added long-requested C API to better suit the needs of graphics software developers. Diligent Engine is free software and its full source code is available on GitHub.