Mesa's Venus Vulkan Driver Updated To Allow QEMU Support

[qarium]

DXVK/VKd3d can only be so good, and they don't implement UMD drivers.

2 thinks here who exactly stops you to develop a UMD driver for windows ?

also if you replace the directx .dlls you can translate the directx calls into vulkan with DXVK/VKd3d

so whats the point ? what exactly do you want to tell me ?

[Quackdoc]

2 thinks here who exactly stops you to develop a UMD driver for windows ?

time and money, even if you did, you still have to deal with D3D1x->VK that you don't need to worry about with SR-IOV

also if you replace the directx .dlls you can translate the directx calls into vulkan with DXVK/VKd3d

you can't do that, it will break since some applications rely on UMD and well windows itself as well, if you want a hwaccerated desktop, you need the UMDs

[qarium]

time and money, even if you did, you still have to deal with D3D1x->VK that you don't need to worry about with SR-IOV
you can't do that, it will break since some applications rely on UMD and well windows itself as well, if you want a hwaccerated desktop, you need the UMDs

benchmarks show that d3d12->Vk has nearly zero overhead and in many times it is even faster.

so whats the point ? your claim is SR-IOV does improve something what does not need improvement...

[Quackdoc]

benchmarks show that d3d12->Vk has nearly zero overhead and in many times it is even faster.

so whats the point ? your claim is SR-IOV does improve something what does not need improvement...

some cherry picked benchmarks, nearly all of the D3D12 games I played have a noticable hit, but VKD3D is not UMD compatible, so unless it becomes so, or someone develops another UMD driver it doesnt matter

[qarium]

some cherry picked benchmarks, nearly all of the D3D12 games I played have a noticable hit, but VKD3D is not UMD compatible, so unless it becomes so, or someone develops another UMD driver it doesnt matter

people can just pick this technology and can build a UMD driver no problem.

it does not mean your GPU need SR-IOV... thats the point.

[Quackdoc]

people can just pick this technology and can build a UMD driver no problem.

it does not mean your GPU need SR-IOV... thats the point.

building a UMD driver is not so simple, though at least we do have a d3d10umd driver that needs ported to zink and extended to d3d11 at least.

but we still wont have things like rocm, no video acceleration api, d3d12 features are still missing etc.