To help you quickly find out if your smartphone supports the Vulkan API, we recommend installing the following program from Google Play Store: Hardware Caps Viewer for Vulkan.
Below you will find the minimal driver version you need to use to be able to preview what Vulkan will look like on your development PC.ĭetermining if your smartphone supports the Vulkan rendering API can be challenging due to the wide range of Android smartphones on the market. To make sure that you can visualize the rendering options Vulkan has available on your development PC, you will need to make sure you download and install the latest version of video card drivers for your graphics card. In the following document, we will go over how you can enable and use Vulkan in your UE4 Android projects. Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics library that gives developers more control over the GPU and lower level CPU usage for their Android base mobile projects. Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) has built in support for the Vulkan graphics API. Enabling Vulkan Preview Rendering in EditorĮnabling the Vulkan Mobile Preview Render
