Back in October last year I wrote about the new open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver named NVK, and now it appears to be able to actually run games. Not particularly well though.
This NVK driver is not from NVIDIA but is instead a new Mesa driver but is a serious effort to see if they can get it into a state where it's usable like what the RADV is to AMD hardware.
Posting on their Mastodon account, driver developer Karol Herbst showed a screenshot of it now capable of loading up The Talos Principle with a follow-up noting "performance is terrible, but that's hopefully resolved with the GSP work which is still ongoing :)".
Image Credit - Karol Herbst
Seems like 2023 could be a really fun year for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux, if this work continues to improve. Given the work involved, it will likely be a good while before performance is actually at a playable stage.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: Cmdr_IrasInteresting project; though I have of course just swapped my Nvidia GTX1070 for a AMD RX 6700XT.Same for me, gf660 to 6600XT. (graphic cards are to expensive)
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InhaleOblivion Jan 11, 2023
Quoting: Cmdr_IrasInteresting project; though I have of course just swapped my Nvidia GTX1070 for a AMD RX 6700XT.I made a similar upgrade from the GTX 1070 FE to an RX 6750XT. So far so good though Lutris is acting funny with certain titles.
Quoting: subDo they have enough docs from Nvidia in order to not rely on reversing stuff?It's mostly reverse engineered. Collabora posted about it a while ago.
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-nvk.html
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Quoting: SolarwingNVIDIA for the losersand for those who need CUDA for some reason.
Quoting: Cmdr_IrasInteresting project; though I have of course just swapped my Nvidia GTX1070 for a AMD RX 6700XT.Lol, 3 years ago i swapped, gtx780 for 5700xt. Its very competent card for 1080P, and i manage to play tonnes of titles either with full settings or FSR enabled on 1440P. But I am thinking to upgrade for something else :D After article I was thinking about Nvidia again, though performance from looks of it sucks.
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fenglengshun Jan 12, 2023
Yes, yes, I know it's a logistical issue that shouldn't happen often... but there's been a LOT of those last year, so I just wonder if it'll happen again and if that'll affect the people choosing to use the new open-source driver's users at that time.
Quoting: fireplaceQuoting: subDo they have enough docs from Nvidia in order to not rely on reversing stuff?It's mostly reverse engineered. Collabora posted about it a while ago.
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-nvk.html
Thanks!
*MEH* so much wasted energy on stuff that should just be documented.
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