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Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set

Collabora's Faith Ekstrand provided a status update yesterday at XDC 2024 Montreal around the state of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver as a means of open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GPUs.

Collabora's Faith Ekstrand provided a status update yesterday at XDC 2024 Montreal around the state of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver as a means of open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GPUs. Many games are running atop this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver including Horizon: Zero Dawn, Cyberpunk 2077, X4 Foundations, Transport Fever 2, Rust, Return to Monkey Island, The Witness, Evil Genius 2, and many others. Those wishing to learn more about the late-2024 state of the NVK Vulkan driver within Mesa can find Ekstrand's presentation from XDC 2024 embedded below along with the PDF slides.

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