Blender 4.3 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Introduces Experimental Vulkan Backend

Posted by hanuca on Nov 20, 2024 9:18 PM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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The Blender Foundation announced today the release and general availability of Blender 4.3 as a major update to this powerful, free, cross-platform, and open-source 3D graphics and modeling software.

Four months after Blender 4.2 LTS, the Blender 4.3 release introduces an experimental Vulkan backend on Linux and Windows systems to render the user interface. This can be enabled over the default OpenGL backend under Preferences > Interface > Developer Extras > System > Backend. However, there are some limitations like lack of support for GPU subdivision and OpenXR, and slower performance compared to the OpenGL backend.

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