Intel Arc support for X-Plane 12

[Sims Smith 303]

XP12 doesn't support Intel Arc and there is a hint from a contractor that it may never be supported. Anyone here have more insight into what the functionality/features are missing in Intel Arc Vulkan drivers? 

I am not very happy with  current  AMD/Nvidia duopoly jacking up prices beyond imagination. 

I been watching Arc development and performance has been constantly increasing with driver update for many of the DirectX games.   I can't find much info on Vulkan progress. 

LR is already struggling with AMD GPU so I can totally understand them not wanting to take a 3rd GPU. It sucks for consumer. 

[blingthinger 682]

AMD is struggling with AMD GPU. LR is dealing with the whiplash better than most.

[Bjoern 1,197]

From all I've read Arc is still useless for any degree of gaming. It would have been nice though, but Intel's driver development team completely blew it.

 

If you need a new GPU on a budget, there's no way around waiting for a new generation release and then buying the previous generation from the used market.

[mSparks 2,168]

7 hours ago, Sims Smith said:

XP12 doesn't support Intel Arc and there is a hint from a contractor that it may never be supported.

Hmmm, not so sure about that specifically, more that

[Sims Smith 303]

On 2/2/2023 at 8:10 PM, mSparks said:

Hmmm, not so sure about that specifically, more that

That is pretty bad.  They are putting all efforts improving DX drivers.  

 

[mSparks 2,168]

27 minutes ago, Sims Smith said:

They are putting all efforts improving DX drivers.  

aiui there's not "that" much for them to do for Vulkan, that's as good as the performance will get, because Vulkan/DX12 don't do much other than expose the hardware to the application to run stuff on it.

DX9/10/11 and openGL on the other hand, do lots of heavy lifting regarding resource management in the driver, and efficient resource use in a generic manner is a hard problem (getting it wrong is where all the stutters came from).

According to 

https://www.geeks3d.com/20230125/intel-graphics-driver-31-0-101-4090-released/

It exposes Vulkan version 1.3.237 

Which should run XP12.

Don't think I would touch a 750, the A770 is fairly competitively priced, I'd love to see XP12 VR benchmarks on it (although I doubt it is usable)

https://www.engadget.com/intel-arc-a750-a770-review-mid-range-gpu-rivals-nvidia-amd-130032507.html

next iteration "sounds" promising:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/RTX-4080-rivaling-Intel-Arc-Battlemage-to-launch-in-Q1-2024-while-Arc-Alchemist-to-be-refreshed-in-Q3-2023-per-leaked-internal-roadmap.679447.0.html

So I'm fairly optimistic. If they can stay the course, there is a very real prospect that a dedicated XP12 VR box will be viable in a couple of years.