And as usual this is without any help from Nvidia
For those out of the loop that donât read articles (this isnât an article itâs a post by one of the creatorâs of the driver)
What is NVK?
NVK is a new fully open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia hardware.
What is the difference between selecting dx12 and vulkan on a game that supports both versus putting a vulkan driver on the card? Will the vulkan drive have better performance on games which already support vulkan? All games? Thanks for any explanation
That article doesnât mention Wayland and I donât have Nvidia card myself. So, can I go now and suggest Nvidia owners to use Wayland if their Mesa, Vulkan and Nouveau are up to date?
Even if the users were using a kernel tree that isnât even in Linusâ tree yet in addition to bleeding-edge Mesa, you still shouldnât be using nor recommending this.
From the article:
It will take a long time before we get the bugs worked out and get a full feature set with reasonable performance.
We are not, however, yet to the point where you can run an arbitrary app and expect it to work properly.
However, right now there are enough missing features and known issues that a lot of apps wonât work and we already know that. Please donât file âXYZ game doesnât playâ issues just yet.
This is a large step forward but nowhere near usable for the wider Linux gamer audience yet and thatâs just the Vulkan driver.
Other parts of Nouveau arenât too great either and there is still no re-clocking support. Your iGPU is likely faster than any card with NVK right now.
I actually came to this community to actually ask about the state of Wayland on NVIDIA lol. I have a laptop that has hybrid AMD/NVIDIA graphics and I want to FULLY switch to Wayland but it NEEDS to be stable enough to not cause issues while Iâm working.
Iâm on a laptop with hybrid Nvidia/Intel graphics, and Wayland has been working fine for me. I typically run in âon-demandâ mode, but Iâve used both strictly Intel and strictly Nvidia modes as well, and itâs been fine.
I think the only real issue Iâve had is that Splitgate refuses to launch in Wayland, so I switch to X if I want to play - general computing works fine, native apps have had no issues, and all the other games Iâve played have launched without issue.
The Nvidia GPU is a 1650 TI, and Iâm on the Nvidia 535 driver.
I have a 1060 and use proprietary drivers. On sway I sometimes have smal graphics glitches that go away when I hover them with my mouse. On Hyprland with the nvidia build I have experienced no problems.
I have used Wayland on NVIDIA for couple of years now. Itâs not perfect, but generally itâs usable and I havenât used X11 after I switched. My current issues are probably more from applications not supporting Wayland, because XWayland can cause some annoyances when using programs through it.
Does this improve performance with nouveau then? Last time I tried nouveau it was leagues slower than integrated graphics, let alone the proprietary drivers
