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title: 'RuneScape Ships Vulkan Open Beta'
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date: '2026-09-09'
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#  RuneScape Ships Vulkan Open Beta 

  September 9th at 3:24pm

 Jagex's RuneScape launched an open beta of its Vulkan renderer on Windows on September 7, replacing OpenGL as the engine transitions for lower CPU overhead, better multi-threading, and improved streaming/loading performance. Android is next, with an eventual Vulkan-to-Metal translation layer for Apple platforms; OpenGL stays as a fallback for incompatible devices. 

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