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It's been a long time coming (well, not that long, really) but NVK is now ready for prime time: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-is-now-ready-for-prime-time.html You can expect to see NVK show up in your favorite distro some time this year. 16 comments
@gfxstrand Thanks for all the hard work! I would really love to try it out, is there a chance for gtx 1070 support in the future? @horvbalint GTX 1070 should already mostly work if you set NVK_I_WANT_A_BROKEN_VULKAN_DRIVER=1 However, performance is likely to be garbage thanks to power management issues that are nearly unfixable on Pascal cards. ๐ข @horvbalint Yeah, the Pascal generation is pretty well and thoroughly cursed from an open-source point of view. It's unfortunate but it's the reality we have to live with. ๐ฉ @gfxstrand Ooh, I should salvage the NVK sticker from my old (sadly, dead) laptop. It's probably worth 10x more now than when I got it at X dev conf a year and a half ago! ;) Seriously though, sounds like some great work being done. Thanks so much!  @gfxstrand One question though, how were you able to do it so quickly at such an incredibly high quality. I was surprised to see how the Zink lead developer was gushing at the quality of this driver, especially before the 1.0 release. @adilarif It helps that I'd already written most of NVK in my head years ago. By the time I sat down to start working on it, I already had a solid architecture in mind. @gfxstrand I did not think you'd manage to get to such a point so quickly - hats off to you and everyone who collaborated, it's amazing what you've accomplished so quickly all things considered! You're all doing incredible work and I look forward to every update post I see.  @gfxstrand already tried it in minecraft and dozen other scenarios @beh_72 Yeah, there's already a bug open about Genshin Impact. I'm well aware of that one. @gfxstrand yeah I'm the one with that bug report I have no idea how to use renderdoc Either way as I said looking forward to ditch nvidia as I ditched xorg (already using nvk to play control in #heroicgameslauncher ) |
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@gfxstrand gratz again! Great work