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 macOS, iOS and tvOS. (by KhronosGroup)
yuzu
Nintendo Switch emulator (by yuzu-emu)
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| MoltenVK | yuzu | |
|---|---|---|
| 103 | 562 | |
| 4,533 | 38,792 | |
| 2.0% | - | |
| 9.0 | 9.9 | |
| 2 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Objective-C++ | C++ | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
MoltenVK
Posts with mentions or reviews of MoltenVK.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-10.
- 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.
yuzu
Posts with mentions or reviews of yuzu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.
- Yuzu Emulator Taken Down
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Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
Yuzu is free software, so its source code is already available: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu
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SMT:V - Random game crashes,
This issue seems to not be exactly new as seen here: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/issues/7338
- RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator
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Welcome to r/OnlinePreservation!
Yuzu (Nintendo Switch) Emulator: https://yuzu-emu.org/
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Current EA version is probably the least experimental in a while.
What about this PR? It was approved on Jul 11, and looks to be performance boost to some extent. https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/pull/10996. Is it already included in the EA 3754 release?
- If Nintendo would release their games on other platforms :(
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Accurate barriers for RDNA3 fix in Zelda Totk?
the bug in Yuzu looks similiar, but from what I understand it's caused by the way RDNA3 handles anisotropic filtering. here is the original issue report: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/issues/10228
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yuzu - Progress Report June 2023
First time I hear it, I wonder if it could just be shader stuttering. Open a ticket in GitHub about it, and if possible I Claude s video. https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/issues/new/choose
- Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE | 60fps mod
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MoltenVK and yuzu you can also consider the following projects:
DXVK-macOS - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D10 and D3D11 for macOS / Wine
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
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++.
Ryujinx-Games-List - List of games & demos tested on Ryujinx
MoltenGL
Skyline - Run Nintendo Switch homebrew & games on your Android device!
FF14-MAC_ModSupport - Alternative method of running FFXIV on Mac with Mod Support.
citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator
dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine
road-to-yuzu-without-switch - This Repo explains how to install the Yuzu Switch Emulator without a Switch. Also works for Suyu
dxvk-async
dolphin - Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.