Happy new year from the PCSX2 team

[Bositman]

The PCSX2 development and tester team wishes you a happy new emulation year, with new rigs and less PCSX2 bugs! We are a bit late to the party but we were *hic* busy...coding

P.S. Progress report won't be long

[FaithLV]

Can't wait for progress report! <3

[gregory]

Yes busy with coding and family

I wish everyone a new config which support latest tech (AVX2/DX12). I promise we will do a new release this year

[StriFe]

If DX12 will be implented atleast that would help AMD users out, since older CPUs ofcourse don't have AVX.

[refraction]

I think Vulkan is the more likely candidate, it will help AMD users and be cross platform

[FlatOut]

If DX12 will be implented atleast that would help AMD users out, since older CPUs ofcourse don't have AVX.

Only if they're on Windows 10 and have a GPU that supports DX12. A DX12 port would be more work than fixing the OpenGL multi-threading issues in GSdx and that would benefit everyone.

[gregory]

Only if they're on Windows 10 and have a GPU that supports DX12. A DX12 port would be more work than fixing the OpenGL multi-threading issues in GSdx and that would benefit everyone.

Vulkan/Dx12 will also require to improve the multi-threading too. Anyway, Dx12 isn't interesting per se but a modern GPU will support more capabilities for the emulation. In particular in-order shader might allow to implement accurate date/accurate blending without any CPU overhead !

[FaithLV]

Vulkan/Dx12 will also require to improve the multi-threading too. Anyway, Dx12 isn't interesting per se but a modern GPU will support more capabilities for the emulation. In particular in-order shader might allow to implement accurate date/accurate blending without any CPU overhead !

Is there a reason to support DX12 instead of Vulkan?

Im curious as to why many developers choose to support DX12 and not Vulkan.

[refraction]

Many developers choose dx12 because they've already written the game / engine in dx11, so porting to dx12 is the easiest thing to do without a rewrite

[gregory]

Yes they got all tools to work on DX. They got support and DX was released first. Marketing. Even if Vulkan was 20% faster + bigger market. Most of the game makers will still use Dx.