Portal 2 Sees A Vulkan Renderer Added Via DXVK

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Portal 2 Sees A Vulkan Renderer Added Via DXVK

Portal 2, Valve's puzzle platform game that has been around for a decade already, is now seeing Vulkan rendering support added by leveraging DXVK...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Portal-2-Vulkan-Support

[M@GOid]

Does CS:GO have Vulkan already? There is a title that would benefit from it more than any other Valve have, and would massively boost the number of people playing a Vulkan game.

[uid313]

I would love for Valve to create a sequel to Portal 2, it was a great game! ❤️

[xpris]

Looks like current Vulkan implementation on Portal 2 in Linux works worse than OpenGL. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gamin..._linux_vulkan/

[Chewi]

I would love for Valve to create a sequel to Portal 2, it was a great game! ❤️

Try Portal Stories: Mel if you haven't. It's very good and very challenging!

I take it this doesn't make Portal 2 look any better? It's not that demanding by today's standards so I can't see performance being the motivation either but nice experiment all the same.

[FireBurn]

I wonder if Portal 2 will be dropping for android?

[Brisse]

Does CS:GO have Vulkan already? There is a title that would benefit from it more than any other Valve have, and would massively boost the number of people playing a Vulkan game.

No it doesn't, but it runs quite well on OpenGL these days. I remember when I first tried it on Linux years ago and the frame-rate was really unstable, often dipping far below the 144hz that my monitor ran at. That's not a big deal in most games, but in CS:GO it's a deal-breaker. These days it runs a lot smoother though. Not sure exactly what changed but it's probably the result of several incremental game updates as well as driver updates. Mesa glthread probably helped quite a bit.

[microcode]

Hopefully over time it becomes actually good. There is conceivably some advantage to linking the D3D impl directly into the binary, if they did that.

[LeJimster]

Makes sense... With DXVK you are getting native DX9 performance in some cases even better than native on Portal.

[Michael]

Looks like current Vulkan implementation on Portal 2 in Linux works worse than OpenGL. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gamin..._linux_vulkan/

I have benchmarks coming out later today or tomorrow... depending upon resolution, seeing Vulkan as a big win.