NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver

Due to some games checking the graphics card's vendor ID and matching to NVIDIA then just assuming it's NVIDIA's official (proprietary) driver in use, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver has added a workaround to allow concealing the vendor ID in order to bypass NVIDIA-specific checks such as for the driver version in use...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vendor-ID-Workaround

[sarmad]

When will game developers stop this nonsense of checking vendor IDs?

[gentoofu]

Per this comment, did they at least, at an absolute minimum, report the bug before implementing this distasteful supposedly temporary workaround?

[spicfoo]

When will game developers stop this nonsense of checking vendor IDs?

Absolutely never. Welcome to the real world

[shmerl]

When will game developers stop this nonsense of checking vendor IDs?

Reminds dumb bugs in sites checking browser's user agent.

[luno]

does NVK will work with Nsight Developer Tools specially Nsight Graphics which is pretty important ?

[spicfoo]

does NVK will work with Nsight Developer Tools specially Nsight Graphics which is pretty important ?

Never heard of it but it is important to you you should test it and report back

[piotrj3]

When will game developers stop this nonsense of checking vendor IDs?

Any developer is very sensitive to bug reports. X4 foundations had some nvidia incompability in early versions (nvidia fixed it) and getting spammed with crash reports because someone didn't update driver is not something i would look forward to.

[erniv2]

Lets wait for this nova thing and see how far nvk goes.

So far im on prop driver and steam works fine.

[rabcor]

When will game developers stop this nonsense of checking vendor IDs?

When we're all using open source drivers. (So never.)