Shout out to #NVIDIA for finally producing a usable, playable, tear-free GPU experience on #Wayland#Linux, only 3 short years after I paid a lot of money for my RTX3070 laptop! #NVK did it first though! I have GRUB set up to be able to select between the two drivers and am excited to see both of them progressing. NVIDIA 555 Beta drivers with the nvidia-beta AUR package.
Seriously NVIDIA...what is this? Opened Overwatch at the practice range, low settings. Memory slowly crept to like 13GB used over the course of like 10 minutes and CPU was pegged the whole time the game was in focus. Closed the game, look how much memory was freed....the game was also stuttery at 90FPS ish while #NVK gets a smooth 120 or so in the same area.
@gamingonlinux Hopefully there's an AUR package soon. I hope this fixes the flickering and frame pacing issues in games on Optimus laptop configurations. The proprietary driver is basically unusable on my laptop. I'm more excited for #NVK which has already made my laptop way more usable than ever before, but it would be nice to see the proprietary driver being a usable alternative rather than a glitchy mess.
#NVK news: Support for DRM format modifiers has landed & will be part of the upcoming Mesa 24.1 release It's last piece required to support GameScope and is important to making Zink+NVK a robust #OpenGL solution. Read more: http://col.la/drmnvk#NVIDIA#Vulkan#OpenSource
If you're playing around with #NVK and want to post videos or screenshot, please use the #NVK hashtag. I love seeing people having fun! I also tend to boost them. 😁
@gfxstrand I've been following #NVK since it was announced and testing it since test releases were available in Arch. I'm consistently impressed with how much progress is being made and how many games run now. Incredible work.
I tried using NVK and zink instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver today. I have to say it works very well and i can finally use wayland without some ugly glitches. Very cool.
#NVK is now ready for prime time! The merge request has landed, the non-conformant implementation warnings are gone & NVK is coming to your favorite #Linux distro! Here's the latest from @gfxstrandhttps://col.la/nvkpt
Here is is, the first NVK vs Nvidia video that I know of. NVK is about 55% the speed of Nvidia in this one. Not too shabby at all for an unreleased, experimental still, driver!