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For questions about the Vulkan graphics/compute API.

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What prevents older GPUs from supporting Vulkan?

More out of curiosity than for any practical purpose, I'm wondering what is lacking from older GPUs that causes them to be unable to support Vulkan. I know that some argue that some hardware, such as ...
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How do I create a Win32 window with a Vulkan context?

I am aware of libraries that already do this (like GLFW), but I would actually prefer do all of the window and context creation by myself.
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Instanced Stereo Rendering vs. Multiple Command Buffers

Source In this webpage from Nvidia, the author(s) seems to imply that you could create a command buffer for each eye on separate threads. However, I don't see the benefit to this over instanced stereo ...
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Raytracing in OpenGL or Vulkan?

I was looking at this glass ball rendering with an image inside of it (zoom out to see the glass ball), and noticed that it looks like they simulate the refraction of light as it crosses from inside ...
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