Hi, I was wondering if adding support for DLSS on Linux is planned. Maybe as a Vulkan extension?

As I understand, the thing with HDR is that it has to be supported in a much wider software stack than DLSS. You need Xorg and Wayland support, in particular. It requires a vendor-neutral solution as well. DLSS is a more localized feature, that can be exposed by the driver and then used by Wine/DXVK…

It would definitely love to see DLSS being implemented for linux. It would help a lot in games using RTX.

It would be great to see this feature, especially in regards to WINE/Proton gaming. This is clearly a large step forward for the industry and I’d quite like to see Linux supported on at least a basic level going forward - if only for the sake of its industry viability as a valid target platform.

I’d like to see this – really, anything to provide a better gaming experience on Linux - be that visuals, performance, or just feature support.

I personally think that after seeing games like Control using DLSS 2.0, it’s going to basically be a requirement to get even within 50% of Windows performance in the coming years. Not having support is going to become a critical performance problem sooner than later.

Indeed. Seeing that on Linux would be great because that is obviously where everyone is going on Windows.

VKD3D needs DLSS support, without it full DX12 + RTX translation is impossible.

Not quite true, but without DLSS (especially 2.0 and beyond), Linux will be at a severe performance disadvantage that can’t be overcome. It’s clear at this point that DLSS is a key part of Nvidia’s graphics plans, especially for higher resolution 2.5-4k displays with ray tracing.

Long-Lived Beta Driver release 450.51 ( Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver | 450.51 | Linux 64-bit | NVIDIA ) adds support for the following: Implemented support for NVIDIA NGX. A new library, libnvidia-ngx.so, has been added to support the new functionality. This new library is needed by appli…

DLSS support on Linux?

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RPGHiro June 24, 2020, 3:29pm 14

Wow, cool.

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