Congrats to the devs!
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What does this mean for the average user?
A step toward having an nvidia driver that comes with your open source Linux distro
I meant, how is it different than what I had before? What is vulkan 1.0?
Some computer games and other graphics intensive apps are using vulkan, and they will now work with an nvidia card without needing to go get nvidias proprietary driver, which is often buggy due to not being properly tested with your desktop and system in general.
I have been reading news about NVK release 1.0
Only this time I see NVK mentioned as open source Nvidia driver.
I wonder if the open source driver will ever be able to replicate quite advanced features such as frame generation.
DLSS is easy enough - make the driver have a generic hook compatible with the Windows DLL, which Proton already can use.
But frame generation? It actually requires the driver to intercept quite a lot of calls from the game engine.