Blumenkrantz Boosts Zink Performance By 150% For Everspace, Possibly Helping Other Games

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Blumenkrantz Boosts Zink Performance By 150% For Everspace, Possibly Helping Other Games

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team who is known for his work on the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation has made another mighty round of improvements for helping the gaming performance...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zink-150p-Everspace-Mesa

[reba]

That sounds to me he made no regression tests for other games/products.

So while it might be positive for Everspace, and probably also is for other games, without tests he can't be sure and so is IMHO neglecting responsibility.

[Quackdoc]

That sounds to me he made no regression tests for other games/products.

So while it might be positive for Everspace, and probably also is for other games, without tests he can't be sure and so is IMHO neglecting responsibility.

that is why you need people running mesa-git thankfully lots of people do and if they update often, hopefully people will find any potential regressions and report them

[Alexmitter]

That sounds to me he made no regression tests for other games/products.

So while it might be positive for Everspace, and probably also is for other games, without tests he can't be sure and so is IMHO neglecting responsibility.

No one should use Zink in production tho, its experimental so regressions are fine if the code overall progresses.

[NeoMorpheus]

Maybe he can fix this one, since is a mess in Linux:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/205230/Hell_Yeah_Wrath_of_the_Dead_Rabbit/

[the-burrito-triangle]

Maybe he can fix this one, since is a mess in Linux:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/205230/Hell_Yeah_Wrath_of_the_Dead_Rabbit/

Unless there is an issue opened for it on gitlab, I doubt it. You have to report problems to the right place/people before anything can happen.

[mrg666]

Awesome progress in Zink development. It is exciting to see that we are coming close to deleting Opengl for good.

[Quackdoc]

Awesome progress in Zink development. It is exciting to see that we are coming close to deleting Opengl for good.

deleting opengl by making opengl more relevant xD

[rmfx]

The latest Zink + Radv benchamark are quite old, could we get some new one to see how close to RadeonSI it is now ?

Also, when is Zink set to be not experimental anymore? Anyone knows ?
Mike really reduced his contribution working on it since he's chair of OpenGL,
(the classic: you're very good at something, you get promoted, then you don't do what you were good at anymore)
it feels a bit like Zink is slowing down just before the finish line.

[mrg666]

deleting opengl by making opengl more relevant xD

I am not sure what you are trying to say.
Zink is replacing opengl, that is all. Instead of having opengl as a standalone library, that old system library will be just a layer over Vulkan with Zink. To me, that is the perfect way for keeping opengl around. This is just like dxvk.