MoltenVK
objc4
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| MoltenVK | objc4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 103 | 2 | |
| 4,533 | 6 | |
| 2.0% | - | |
| 9.0 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| Objective-C++ | Objective-C++ | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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MoltenVK
- MoltenVK is a layered implementation of Vulkan 1.2
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Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening, There Aren't Enough Players
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
Translating between rendering APIs is not really the problem. The GPU design is more different than the API is.
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Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library
Khronos maintains MoltenVk though, which is "official" as it gets: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
...technically, Vulkan on Windows is also only supported via 3rd-parties (the GPU vendors), Microsoft doesn't support Vulkan either ;)
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I love the ally, but fuck Windows
MoltenVK implements large parts of Vulkan on top of Metal for Apple systems. It isn't full Vulkan but it makes porting Vulkan games to OS X easier.
- Apple releases a Game Porting Tool, based on open-source platform Wine, which can translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming
- Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit is Wine
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CrossOver announces DirectX 12 support coming to macOS this summer
That's cool. Maybe I haven't thought enough about this. Let me check it out. FWIW it's this PR that you are referring to I think: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/pull/1815/
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Apple Begins Testing Speedy M3 Chips as It Pursues Mac Comeback
For Metal specifically, they could adopt and contribute to Vulkan and get access to a lot more software. Right now you need to use a compatibility layer, and surely Apple could just support both APIs natively with much lower overhead. But they don't, because it nudges developers to stick to the Apple ecosystem instead of being able to support multiple platforms.
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What do we miss to play DirectX 12 Games on Mac?
At the moment the most promising thing is MoltenVK (DX12 -> DXVK -> Vulkan -> MoltenVK -> Metal), but the development is not that quick mainly because there aren't tons of developer that works at the same time on the project. It's not actually a Metal related problem at the moment (they have a road map of things that they can be achieved with Metal 3 like Mesh shader and Geometry shader).
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Is there a good reason to not allow vulkan on macos as another option?
What you asked is already existed for at least 8 years. Yeah EIGHT years. It's called "MoltenVK". So far it's the only implementation of Vulkan for macOS. Basically it's a wrapper that runs on top of Metal API.
objc4
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Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API
> The specific method that's causing me trouble right at the moment is "computeCommandEncoder"
Yeah, it looks like there's no way to avoid autorelease here.
> It looks like objc_retainAutoreleasedReturnValue might be exactly what I'm looking for, even if it isn't 100% guaranteed; if I'm understanding, it would be safe, and wouldn't actually leak as long as you had an autorelease pool somewhere in the chain.
Indeed it would be safe and wouldn't leak, but the optimization is very much not guaranteed. It's based on the autorelease implementation manually reading the instruction at its return address to see if it's about to call objc_retainAutoreleaseReturnValue. See the description here:
https://github.com/apple-opensource/objc4/blob/a367941bce42b...
In fact – I did not know this before just now – on every arch other than x86-64 it requires a magic assembly sequence to be placed between the call to an autoreleasing method and the call to objc_retainAutoreleaseReturnValue.
It looks like swiftc implements this by just emitting LLVM inline asm blocks:
%6 = call %1* bitcast (void ()* @objc_msgSend to %1* (i8*, i8*, %0*)*)(i8* %5, i8* %3, %0* %4) #4
What are some alternatives?
DXVK-macOS - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D10 and D3D11 for macOS / Wine
metal-cpp - Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++.
metal-rs - Rust bindings for Metal
MoltenGL
clspv - Clspv is a compiler for OpenCL C to Vulkan compute shaders
FF14-MAC_ModSupport - Alternative method of running FFXIV on Mac with Mod Support.
wgpu - Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.
dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine
dxvk-async
Vita3K - Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator
MoltenVK - MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on iOS and macOS.