Quick Look: Vulkan Performance on The Talos Principle
 

Following yesterday’s hard launch of Vulkan 1.0 – drivers, development tools, and the rest of the works – also released alongside Vulkan was the first game with Vulkan rendering support, The Talos Principle. Developer Croteam has a history of supporting multiple rendering paths with their engines, and the 2014 puzzle-em-up is no different, supporting DirectX 9, DirectX 11, and OpenGL depending on which platform it’s being run on. Now with Vulkan’s release Croteam has gone one step further, implementing early Vulkan support in a beta build of the game.

Since this is the first game with any kind of Vulkan support, we wanted to spend a bit of time looking at what Vulkan performance was like under Windows. Games with full support for Vulkan are still going to be some time off, as even with game dev participation in the standardization process it takes time to write a solid and high efficiency rendering path for these new low-level APIs, but none the less it gives us a chance to at least take a peek at the state of Vulkan on day 1.

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