Vulkan-Samples VS vkd3d-proton

Vulcan is a driver-level API. It competes with DirectX and OpenGL.

CUDA is a language you write kernels. It competes with OpenAI's Triton language.

Here's what CUDA looks like: https://github.com/tspeterkim/flash-attention-minimal/blob/m...

This is what Triton looks like: https://triton-lang.org/main/getting-started/tutorials/06-fu...

By contrast Vulcan looks like this: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/blob/main/sam...

(It's true to some extent that maybe you could use Vulcan shaders to write deep learning kernels, maybe? I'm not aware of anyone doing it though)

Hi, i'm looking into descriptor indexing and was looking at the Vulkan-Samples repo. I finally thought i understood how the set binding invalidation works (like a stack?). In the code below both the non_uniform_indexing pipeline and the update_after_bind pipeline use the immutable sampler descriptor in their fragment shader. But since the descriptor set = 0 is rebound, won't the immutable sampler in set = 1 from the "non_uniform_indexing" pipeline be "disturbed" and have to be rebound?

and see if it works.

[1] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/blob/main/sam...

In this new sample, we see how to incorporate the Vulkan extension VK_EXT_mesh_shader and introduce per primitive culling in a mesh shader. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/tree/main/samples/extensions/mesh_shader_culling

Also beginner here, I think you can learn other's codes to get a better understanding of the API by learning how others can abstract these concept into higher level. They're many great projects out there like Google's pbr renderer filament https://github.com/google/filament, AMD's gltf sample https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/glTFSample and also as many suggested, the Sascha Willems's repos https://github.com/SaschaWillems and the official sample https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples

Another way I saw some projects start was by using example base classes (either Sascha Willems' implementations or the framework used by Khronos Samples).

Exchange my 750W PSU for a stronger one as 7900 XTX is a hungry beast, then some upscaling/AI work on (Arch BTW) Linux, testing Cyberpunk 2077 with RT once this fix is in Proton-GE. For the CPU I would obviously have to get a new mobo, and new RAM and then I would test how fast the Dwarf Fortress world generator is/slow, Cities Skylines I/II, RimWorld, Paradox Interactive games, and so on.

For DX12 games you must set the env var VKD3D_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME. But currently it might not work for some games.

If anyone is playing on Linux with an AMD GPU and has texture issues (missing FBI text on the characters' jackets is the give away), it can be fixed with applying a patch to mesa-git: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/175.... It should hopefully be implemented soon. I think it's only limited to RDNA2.

Similar issue but different platform - CP77: Black scenery in Konpeki Plaza and No-Tell Motel · Issue #632 · HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton · GitHub

Vkd3d (the dx12->vulkan translation layer) developer has put up a change log for a new version that is about to be (released here) and also a pull request with more information about what he discovered about all the awful things that starfield is doing to GPU drivers (here).