Doom's long-awaited Vulkan support is rolling out today
Doom's Vulkan implementation made waves at the GeForce GTX 1080 launch. Developer id Software showed the Vulkan version of the game running with its settings cranked at well over 100 FPS, and now us common folk can try it out ourselves. A Doom update with the new rendering path is rolling out this morning. id Software says users with minimum-spec hardware will get "better performance at higher video settings," while folks with heavier-duty systems "will experience exceptional performance with Doom's advanced video settings cranked up to full effect." Players will be prompted to choose OpenGL or Vulkan mode upon starting the game with the new update installed.
The release does come with a few caveats. Users will want to update their video card drivers to the latest versions available from Nvidia and AMD . Windows 7 users who have Nvidia graphics cards with 2GB of RAM on board can't enable the new API. GeForce GTX 690 owners won't be ...