Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support
Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Crown-Engine-0.63
Publish Date: 2026-06-04 06:16:00
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While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine.
Crown 0.63 adds a LOD Group component for optimizing the performance by dynamically choosing which mesh a unit should render based on its distance from the camera. There is also now OBJ mesh format support too in Crown 0.63. FBX import improvements, physics improvements, and other enhancements can also be found in this updated open-source game engine.
The Crown Engine previously introduced a Vulkan renderer to replace its OpenGL renderer. Now as a change of pace, Crown 0.63 has restored its OpenGL renderer on Linux for legacy hardware support. The OpenGL renderer is now used as an automatic fallback behind the Vulkan driver should you lack Vulkan driver support or your hardware lacking. There is also a boot configuration option to otherwise change the default renderer.
More details on the Crown 0.63 release can be found via CrownEngine.org.
