Always expect a stupid comment from Linux fan boys lol. I hate many things about MiCROSOFT but ur conspiracy theory about MS forcing Dx 12 in games is really idiotic. Most microsoft exclusive games which use Dx 12 api are well optimised and run extremely well even on my secondary PC gaming laptop which has old GTX 980m gpu. Developers are free to use Vulkan or Dx 12. You think MS is bribing them to use dx 12 in games lol ?

The latest report of Jon Peddie Research’s dedicated GPU sales tracking showed AMD’s market share falling to 10% and Intel’s rising to 4% (that includes mostly OEM sales of A380 cards).

Does Microsoft send hitmen to developers homes to force them to use DX12? At the end of the day, Vulkan will remain a niche. DX12 is easier to learn and the bar for game development is getting lower every day.

I dont believe that for a second, Alchemist simply was never mass produced for even 1% of the marketshare.

It’s definitely a sub1% niche product, you might’ve confused market share for the % of sales of a specific vendor.

MS wants us all to switch over to Xbox for gaming. They want to be in control. They always have wanted to be in control. That’s one of the biggest things that PC gamers don’t like. We like to have choices and the freedom to make whatever choice we want to out of the choices available.

They ditched Windows’ DX9-to-DX12 translation layer (called D3D9on12) in favor of Valve’s DXVK translation layer, which maps these API calls to Vulkan.

Just a FYI, in case anyone was still believing that DX12 is somehow superior than Vulkan.

Considering that most new games are only shipping with a DX12 renderer going forward, anyone else noticed that Microsoft is factually holding PC gaming back?