"The Vienna-based (Austria) indie games developer Reignite Games are today very happy and thrilled to announce that they have just released a brand-new demo for their upcoming roguelike adventure "Panta Rhei" (the said demo is available right now for PC via Steam)." - Jonas Ek.
Capcom’s new engine Panta-Rhei is known mostly for its first announced game, the PS4 exclusive Deep Down, but Capcom has mentioned multiple times that the engine will be used for several future games and on multiple platforms.
Today AMD announced in a press release that during a Keynote in Singapore a partnership with Capcom has been made public to integrate the company’s API Mantle in Panta-Rhei “enabling enhanced gaming performance and visual quality for upcoming Capcom game titles.”
Mantle doesn't get used on PS4 because it would be redundant. PS4 already has a low-level, to-the-metal graphics API, so Mantle wouldn't help much there. Mantle is mainly for PC, to finally fix a lot of the problems that have been present in DirectX and OpenGL for too many years now.
Oddly, by the time this game ships, DirectX 12 will most likely be available and be the preferred path since it wouldn't be as closely tied to AMD hardware as Mantle would be.
It's not that DirectX and OpenGL had "problems", it's that they didn't offer a hands-off way of accessing the hardware. It's not something they'll get for "free" though in either case. The devs will now have to perform a lot of book keeping tasks that drivers used to do for them.
I know, but I don't know just how low level it is because the details are secret.
They say Mantle can give a huge boost to PC games. So it would seem possible it can help the PS4. But if the PS4 API is already that good, then great.
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"I don't know just how low level it is"
Low level is low level. It's assembly language. The next "lower" level would be binary, you just can't go lower than that. Beside Naughty Dog's The Last of Us I don't know about any other game that has been optimized on a binary level.
Source about the binary statement:
http://www.edge-online.com/...
Mantle API is for CPU alone not GPU. Low level API on consoles are for the entire hardware, and it goes as low as binary. Thus Mantle on consoles is not just redundant but inferior.
read the article. it say the engine Panta-Rhei that supports mantle. nothing to do with game
I read the article.
The game runs on that engine. that engine has mantle support. Its entirely possible to port it to PC and just and make it run even better (4K for example, or VR support). this is good for gamers all round. I think DD would be popular on PC.
"It’s relevant to mention that Mantle’s benefits are primarily localized on PC, and it’s unlikely that they’ll reflect on console games like Deep Down"
In other words mantle is in the engine for the benefit of PC.
"On the other hand, it will make porting titles between consoles and PC easier, as it lets developers code PC versions closer “to the metal” as they do on current generation consoles."
"Consoles to PC"
so deep down could come to PC later with all the DLC plus enhanced graphics. Maybe even cross play for PC and PS4.
It can be console exclusive to PS4 and still come to PC. and that will do wonders for the game, given its online centric, nature.
wasn't this the name of an in-house Capcom game engine? 😂
I do recall something like that, yes.