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  • X-Plane Flight Simulator Is Making Progress On Vulkan Support

    Phoronix: X-Plane Flight Simulator Is Making Progress On Vulkan Support

    The X-Plane cross-platform flight simulator has been depending upon OpenGL for nearly two decades since the program first came into existence, but a port of its rendering engine to use the Vulkan API has been a work-in-progress...

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  • #2
    Looks like another candidate for MoltenVK

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    • #3
      Originally posted by FireBurn View Post
      Looks like another candidate for MoltenVK
      The lead (engine) developer said that they planned to use Metal on Macs.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by FireBurn View Post
        Looks like another candidate for MoltenVK
        Afaik they plan to use Metal for Mac's natively , somebody told they were also Mac heads so that is pretty normal.

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        • #5
          Their staff also made preliminary but promising tests. The stuff they render has nice FPS improvements.

          Aerofly 2 is another flight simulator that is or was being ported to Linux. Windows users tell me it has stunning visuals and is very fast even on a 970.

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