Metal: "Failed creating a default system device!" on iPhone5/iOS8

Question

When I run the Metal sample projects on iPhone5/iOS8 they fail here:

m_Device = MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice(); 
if(!m_Device)
{
    NSLog(@">> ERROR: Failed creating a default system device!");
    return NO;
}

MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice() returns id 0x0 instead of a valid id <MTLDevice>.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Answer 1

Metal is only available on A7 devices.