(And that's a historical problem going back almost 20 years.)ĭX12 and Vulkan are going to co-exist within their niches which will probably fall to big high-end games using DX12 and games with cross-platform support using Vulkan.

It helped that Microsoft gives lots of hands-on support to developers and has some of the best API documentation in the industry and the Khronos Group simply doesn't. and game developers still wrote for DirectX. You get them from people taking the free upgrade and sticking with it on their older hardware.Īnd the same could be said about OpenGL - cross platform, functionally equivalent, etc. You don't get those adoption numbers that quickly from people running out and buying new computers. In case you haven't seen the headlines for the last five years, PC hardware sales have been stagnant for about a decade. Not so much because you've got millions of gamers out there rebuilding their systems. In any case, the gamer market is also likely win10 heavy due to buying new pre-built systems (gaming laptops are a thing) that shipped with it. My reference to DX12 was this: Why would any sane developer write for DX12 when Vulkan is essentially functionally equivalent, runs on any recent (or if anyone cares, any) version of Windows, Linux or mobile. Mine is anyone who runs steam (given we are talking steam OS metrics here).Īgain, anecdotally - out of all the gamers i know personally (lets say, 15), 2-3 are nerds who would build their own PC. Not every gamer plays Medal of Warfare XVII: Urban Battlefield 7: Special Warrior XI - Gold Edition. And when you go even deeper you realize not everyone plays games that would benefit from DX12 to begin with. So out of the dozen or so people I know who play the kinds of games you'd find on Steam most all of them work in IT or are at least tech savvy.Īlso, when you drill down you'll see the numbers involved suggest a huge number of people running Windows 10 don't have systems that support DX12. I know it's anecdotal, but I've met exactly one PC gamer who wasn't also a tech enthusiast and I'm married to her. Which looks like is going to be irrelvant. The gaming market is highly win10 for dx12. Keep in mind that gamers are a decent group to sample for this kind of stuff because they tend to be tech savvy enough to know how to totally reinstall Windows or Linux. (It currently sits at 47% of Steam users.) I believe it passed Windows 7 as the most used OS on the platform a few months back. i know a bunch who ditched it and either migrated platforms (e.g., myself) or reinstalled Windows 7 or 8.x.īased on the Windows 10 user numbers on Steam? Minimal. Sure plenty of people upgraded to make use of the free upgrade. Curious to know about the Windows 10 defection rate.

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