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In an interview with Germany’s PCGH, CD PROJEKT RED’s lead graphics programmer Marcin Gollent revealed that Cyberpunk 2077 will only support DirectX 12 on PC. That’s of little concern to anyone blessed with modern hardware, but it’s bad news for folks who are stuck with older graphics cards and/or operating systems (e.g., Windows 8). It’s also a big disappointment for Vulkan API fans.
PCGH: You’ve opted to use Direct X 12 Ultimate. Will there be a fallback so gamers who are still running Win 7/8.x can also play? Was there a decision between the lower-level APIs DirectX 12 and Vulkan, and if so, why did you pick DX12?Marcin Gollent: Thanks to the introduction of DX12 support for Windows 7 SP1 that Microsoft introduced last year, the game will run on...
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