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Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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As a regular user / game player on Linux, how does this affect me?

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you're using the proprietary drivers: Absolutely nothing will change for you.

If you're using the Nouveau/NVK drivers: Soon the OpenGL driver will be entirely replaced by Zink, which implements OpenGL over Vulkan (think DXVK, but for OpenGL); as the aforementioned driver is in a quite broken state, and nothing short of a complete rewrite can "revive" it.

Sooo... if you're already able to use NVK, you'll keep using NVK, but this time you can utilise it for OpenGL applications as well.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. That helped a lot. (I am still using the Nvidia proprietary driver, so.... yeah)

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Np at all! Glad I could help!

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