Hello guys,
I’m new here and I’m really impressed by this Engine.
However, I have 2 questions.
First of all, are there any Hardware System Requirements? It shouldn’t be something big, but I would like to know whether it eats up a high amount of ressources. My comp is a few years old, but I would only do some smaller stuff at first.
Secondly, my graphic card only supports DirectX up to 11.2, but Xenko uses 12. I have no idea how these things work, would I still be able to even use Xenko? Even if it would not use “DX12 features”.
The DirectX question is easy. The engine advertises DirectX 12 support because that’s the new hotness, but when creating a game project you can choose from a dialogue box to target as far back as DirectX 9 / OpenGL 2. The further back you target the more devices your project could theoretically run on, but you’ll be giving up newer graphical features and performance gains. You’ll want to pick what platforms/devices you’re planning on making a game for and then pick the lowest common graphics library accordingly. Or if you’re not sure about any of that yet, just pick DirectX 11.2 since that’s what your computer runs.
As for your first question, that’s a little trickier. If you’re just asking about the Xenko Game Studio itself, it takes up about 8 gigs of HDD and .5 gigs of RAM when running. I’m not sure about minimum requirements for CPU/GPU, but if you’ve got the hard drive space just go ahead and install it, see how it runs.
If you’re asking about the performance of the engine and the games you make with it, well that’s another matter entirely. You can make very simple games that will use almost no resources and run on just about anything, or you can drop in thousands of enemies with complex models and AI and bring even the most powerful computer to a grinding halt. Again I say just try it out, no harm in trying.
Oh also the editor comes with a variety of simple sample projects. You could try opening each one just to see how well they run on your computer. Quick trial by fire 