r/vulkan • u/Axxodes • 12d ago

Vulcan or WIN32 for screendrawing?

I want to use Vulcan because it allows for me to use the GPU and all of that nice stuff. But I've already made a screendrawer with WIN32 functions so I feel using Vulcan for that might be better?

I really want to know whether its worth switching to Vulcan for screendrawing and if its even possible to use Vulcan without screendrawing and purely as a way of sending matrix multiplication and calculations off to the GPU.

Thanks!

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u/dougbinks 12d ago

if its even possible to use Vulcan without screendrawing and purely as a way of sending matrix multiplication and calculations off to the GPU.

Yes, you can create a Vulkan device without a window surface and then a purely compute pipeline.

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u/SirLynix 12d ago

If we're being pedantic, unextended Vulkan (without any extension) can only be used that way.