Nvidia's DLSS Has Come To Linux Gaming (theverge.com) 31
Years after its failed Steam Machines, Valve is slowly but surely improving the state of Linux gaming. From a report: The company's upcoming Steam Deck handheld runs atop Linux, and its Proton compatibility layer lets it -- and other computers -- play Windows games as well. Now, Valve has officially added support for Nvidia's DLSS machine learning temporal upscaling technique to Proton, potentially bringing big FPS boosts and less flicker in games that support the technology.
Proton 6.3-8 is the first stable release to include support for DLSS, after the feature previously hit experimental builds in October, though it appears you'll still need to set PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 and dxgi.nvapiHack = False to turn it on. DLSS won't come to the AMD-powered Steam Deck, of course, since it requires proprietary Nvidia machine learning silicon, but we recently learned the Steam Deck will support AMDâ(TM)s arguably much less capable FSR.
Proton 6.3-8 is the first stable release to include support for DLSS, after the feature previously hit experimental builds in October, though it appears you'll still need to set PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 and dxgi.nvapiHack = False to turn it on. DLSS won't come to the AMD-powered Steam Deck, of course, since it requires proprietary Nvidia machine learning silicon, but we recently learned the Steam Deck will support AMDâ(TM)s arguably much less capable FSR.
At least write it correctly (Score:2)
It could be coming to Linux gaming, if you could find a card to buy.
I really don't give a fuck about the features of your card if it's unobtanium.
Re:At least write it correctly (Score:5, Interesting)
While I share your annoyance, a lot of people out there do have RTX NVIDIA cards... and being able to use that feature on linux is awesome.
I know at the end of the day, Valve is a corporation and a corporations goal is my wallet. Still... Valve is going at that with a modicum of decency I have to admit.
Frak GPUs. (Score:2)
Let's go back to the old days when we didn't have GPU cards. :P
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Nope. Way before that. Like early 1990s.
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When we had graphics cards without acceleration but with different enough chipsets that every programmer of graphics-related software had to write his own driver for the different cards, at least until VESA finally managed to convince enough manufacturers to actually follow a standard?
Yeah, we need that on top of all the other problems.
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You mean, like nvidia follows a standard instead of pushing its proprietary API?
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Wait are you suggesting Vulkan and DirectX don't work with NVIDIA GPUs? Fuck we better tell everyone!
Or maybe what you're saying isn't remotely the same as what Opportunist said. I'll take whataboutism for $200 bob!
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Ahh you mean like how DirectX is a cross-platform standard?
Even older. (Score:3)
If you follow the definition of GPU as a chip that can directly manipulate and alter memory on its own, to accelerate the creation of images in the frame buffer (as opposed to simply just display a frame buffer whose content has been entirely generated by and put there by the CPU), then on the PC, you could even go older:
Nope. Way before that. Like early 1990s.
The EGA and VGA already already had dedicated hardware to directly manipulate the memory and assist in some tasks (latches and bit masks/combiner in the both, and additional ALU and barrel
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> We have had GPU:s on a card since the early 80:ies if not even earlier. But that is besides the point since I was joking about the chip shortage of 2020
You keep using punctuation mark. I do not think it does what you think it does.
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s/using punctuation mark/using that punctuation mark/
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It could be coming to Linux gaming, if you could find a card to buy.
What a fucking whine. Go suck your thumb for a bit; it'll make you feel better.
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Tell that to my 3090 that I've had for a year.
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Keep up the good fight. You know it won't happen though.
Bots could invade Valve headquarters and headshot everyone there, and Valve wouldn't do anything about it. Other than die and not respawn.
Video of DLSS working on Linux (Score:2)
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Try experimental. No Mans Sky + DLSS works like butter there, but is like playing through thick syrup on 6.3-8. (at least this is my experience, RTX2070Super + Ryzen 2700x) Hopefully its the same issue with doom.
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It works for me but performance is horrible/unplayable with it enabled.
You have a strange definition of "works" given that it's singular purpose is to improve performance and you're saying it hampers it ;-)