volk VS waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan

Im learning Vulkan in attempt to create a renderer for a video game I plan on making. Following the spec https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/1.0/html/vkspec.html, I've reached the point to where I can create and destroy the VkInstance. I'm using GLFW for the windowing and was originally using for the Vulkan stuff, but turned to Volk https://github.com/zeux/volk to load Vulkan in the end. Reflecting that change, I replace the vulkan.h includes with volk.h, defined the platform macro for my platform, and unlinked Vulkan in my Makefile.

Do you link libVulkan-1.so statically in your project? On Android, only Vulkan 1.0 functions are exposed via this lib. Performance wise and to use any Vulkan functions above 1.0 you need to load all your Vulkan functions by yourself or (even better) use a loader library like volk

no problem! This library might help you too https://github.com/zeux/volk

You also should not link to Vulkan directly (-lvulkan) but retrieve the function pointers to the Vulkan functions by yourself or using a loder library like volk.

You can't statically link vulkan, you need to load vulkan-1.dll from the driver installation. You can use something like volk for this https://github.com/zeux/volk

Use a Vulkan loader like Volk. https://github.com/zeux/volk

For developing with Vulkan all you need are the Vulkan Headers and some kind of static loader to link against or you use a dynamic loader like volk.

I am using VMA as well in my renderer and I am not having any issues with it. As I am using Volk (https://github.com/zeux/volk) to locate and load all Vulkan function pointers. Thats why I need to tell VMA to not load any functions statically:

Hi OP, try going in ubuntu then install there. Mine works fine after doing these steps: sudo apt update && upgrade sudo apt install apt-utils sudo apt install python-is-python3 git clone https://github.com/nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan.git cd waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan git submodule update --init --recursive mkdir build cd build apt install cmake apt install build-essential cmake ../src cmake --build . -j 4 ./waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan Note: i thought its stucked at 100% after cmake --build but just wait maybe 5mins and completed installing to build, all good, and... im no IT/Dev but it worked for me by following the installation guide. Now i can see these ``` Usage: waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan -i infile -o outfile [options]...

why not https://github.com/nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan ?

The other is using AI upscaling, which will allow you to upscale it while keeping a high quality look. You could try Waifu2x for that.

https://github.com/nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkanis that a legist question? look it for yourself.