Blzut3 wrote:
I mean a cvar would be nice for exploratory purposes, but I can understand why you might not want to do that. Compared to an unmodified 3.3.2 it looks like the only people that are losing any performance with the current state are Intel Windows users, and unfortunately Vulkan won't help most of them since even though Ivy Bridge-Broadwell are capable of it there appear to be no plans to bring it to Windows.
Sadly the state of Intel Windows drivers is utterly pathetic and this has a long history.
Intel GMA would theoretically have been compatible with OpenGL 2, yet Intel stopped updating their drivers at version 1.5, totally obsoleting this hardware long before its time
Intel HD3000 would be compatible with OpenGL 3.3, yet Intel stopped updating their drivers at the totally useless OpenGL 3.1, essentially bumping this hardware down to GL 2.1 because GL 3.1 is missing crucial features and the driver is too broken to properly use extensions.
And now the same again because they are just too lazy to give their hardware a few years of proper support?
Shame on you, Intel! If they actually had to compete in that market segment they'd already have lost.