A project I have a very keen eye on is NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver developed by the community (not NVIDIA), and it seems like progress on it is going rather well.
Ooh, I was just looking for news on NVK like 4 days ago. Glad to hear its going well - I do wish that Nvidia would just get their heads out of the sand and improve their own driver, but that became a pipe dream long ago.
Echo has been playing around with NVK+DXVK a bit and has succeeded in getting some games playing. It’s still early days and requires some hacks. However, there are a few titles working and I was able to demo Hollow Knight and F1 2017 at the Collabora meet-up in May.
With Nvidia making progress on NVK, but still having proprietary DLSS, while AMD has great Linux drivers but they ignore them while pushing FSR-only on game devs…
I’m just so conflicted about what kind of GPU I’d like to have and which company I would like to support a few years down the line.
