Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of the game "Star Citizen" is now considering the idea of dropping DirectX support. Dev is taking the thought to solely focus on supporting Vulkan, The Khronos Group's cross-platform graphics API.

Reports are all over that suggest that "Star Citizen" is letting go of Microsoft's DirectX graphics platform to go all the way for Khronos Group's cross-platform graphics, Vulkan. API is building a strong bond to notable developers and attracted them in the previous years and games like "The Witness," "Doom," and "Dota 2" is supporting them, as per the report of Neowin.

The Developers reason for choosing the API is because it offers a performance boost. For the most successful game, "Star Citizen" is just pointing those benefits as part of switching to Khronos Group's, Vulkan. It was officially confirmed by Cloud Imperium Games during a forum.

Dev stated that for over years they have dropped their intentions to support Microsoft's DirectX 12 for running in "Star Citizen." But everything changed when Khronos Group introduces Vulkan and has much more performance advantages which are more logical rendering API to use.

According to Ali Brown, director of graphics engineering of "Star Citizen," said during the forum Post Q&A presenting the official result. Their only current intention and focus are to support Vulkan and drop DirectX as this should not effect any of their backers, PC World has reported.

Microsoft's DirectX requires "Star Citizen" players to run the game in Windows 10 in order for them to play. But the Vulkan API offers that the game can be played using Windows 7, 8, and 10 while enabling it to play on PCs running Linux.

But everything for DirectX seems not to be over as the Cloud Imperium Games might support it again in the near future. But if it could surpass the substantial advantage of Vulkan, though Brown claimed that the two API are somehow similar in many ways. Brown also pointed out that the "Star Citizen" might be on more development delays even since the 2012 Kickstarter campaign.

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