Crytek adopts AMD's Mantle API for its future games

AMD has announced a technology partnership with video game developer Crytek which will add Mantle graphics API support to Cryengine, the German company’s game engine. This is the same game engine that runs games in the Crysis and Far Cry franchises.   Mantle was launched by AMD last year along with the Hawaii graphics cards. It is a low-level API which gives game developers improved access to PC hardware and streamlines communication between the CPU and GPU. At its launch, AMD had announced a partnership with DICE and Mantle comes incorporated with Battlefield 4.   “AMD is delighted to bring Mantle support to the enormous audience of gamers and game developers reached by Crytek’s CRYENGINE,” said Ritche Corpus, director of ISV gaming and alliances, AMD. “Together, AMD and Crytek are forging a path for the graphics industry that better utilizes gamers’ advanced AMD GPUs through ‘closer-to-the-metal’ API design.”   “Crytek prides itself on enabling CRYENGINE with the latest and most impressive rendering capabilities,” said Cevat Yerli, Founder, CEO & President of Crytek. “By integrating AMD’s new Mantle API, CRYENGINE will gain a dimension of ‘lower level’ hardware access that enables extraordinary efficiency, performance and hardware control.”