So I saw these tweets earlier today: Horizon Zero Dawn has been fun.Tells me I have an old driver. Still runs. Takes 30 minutes to compile shaders. I watch the intro cut scene. I think. Better to update the drivers. I quit. Update drivers. Start the game again.And now we’re […]
With new APIs being all the rave (Vulkan, D3D12, Metal), Steam OS pushing for Linux gaming. Even I myself encounter myself doing more and more graphics work in a Linux machine. After quite some time of graphics development on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine it has called to my attention that […]
In Ogre 2.1 we’ve modernized the whole engine. We started by adopting OpenGL 4.4 as our main API, and then we adopted D3D11 as well. It’s been an enlightening experience. From a performance point of view there is no definitive answer “OpenGL is always faster” or “D3D11 is always faster”, because the […]
There is an interesting post in rastergrid.com from 2010 about this topic. However, I haven’t found on the Internet more information about it; so I thought I should blog about it. Every now and then I see this question pop up over and over again on GameDev.Net. Note that this […]
The OpenGL API sucks. It has gotten better over time, but still is miles away from what it should be. And probably, the API needs a redesign from scratch, something that was promised a long time ago but never happened. There’s often a talk about “API wars” or “DirectX vs […]
