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Does it? It seems very experimental now. They even had to do work _just_ to get DOTA2 running

> The initial results were… slightly discouraging. For a while we weren’t able to get the game to start, due to our Metal backend was missing some required features, like compressed texture support



Right, at the moment there is still missing functionality on each of the backends, but Dota2 was a great test application for the gfx-rs team to prioritize implementing some of that missing functionality.

As mentioned in the blog post, the team is also actively working on improving Vulkan conformance test suite coverage, so the goal is to continue maturing these backends relatively quickly.




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