Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2
ObviouslyFlamer
14 points
4 comments
June 17, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
HelloUsername
Ooh nice! Would've expected a bigger blog post announcement about it though? Like couple months back: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/another-step-towards... (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068948 )
ramon156
> Under Vulkan, we will prefer your dedicated graphics card over any integrated graphics, which is a change from OpenGL Did OpenGL not do this?