Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Now Advertises Support For Quake II RTX & DOOM Eternal

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Phoronix: Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Now Advertises Support For Quake II RTX & DOOM Eternal

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has been working with the Quake II RTX and DOOM Eternal games for a while now and recently the performance has also picked up nicely as shown in recent benchmarks. But for the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions to be exposed has required setting the RADV_PERFTEST=rt environment variable, but that has now changed initially for those two games...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Official-RTX-DOOM-Eternal

[Lbibass]

Very nice. It’ll be interesting to see if the Steam Deck will support this. I hope it would.

[QwertyChouskie]

Very nice. It’ll be interesting to see if the Steam Deck will support this. I hope it would.

The Steam Deck is RDNA2 and uses RADV, I don't see why it wouldn't work. That being said, performance is not expected to be great on a low-wattage chip.

[fong38]

Very nice. It’ll be interesting to see if the Steam Deck will support this. I hope it would.

Quake RTX actually ran at 30-40 fps at around 360p when I tried with the latest Mesa. Not bad for a low power chip.

[Leopard]

Doom Eternal ray tracing works very well too.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@pixelcluster/109497649483649644

Work is in mesa git, post is a bit old so it still mentions a seperate branch.

[MastaG]

Well seeing that they got Doom Eternals raytraced reflections working on radv... 2023 will be a nice year for the Deck.