AirBreather

Have you checked out Bottles before?

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles

I haven’t used it myself in forever, but IIRC this was another bigger attempt at this kind of thing.

not NVK

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

edit: oh I see, nvidia-utils is still a closed thing and the only alternative is Zink/NVK unless you go back to nouveau. I got it confused with something else. carry on

Hard no, with an Nvidia GPU you absolutely should go for a distro like Bazzite to avoid the driver headache.

I switched to AMD for my own use a long time ago because of how this used to be the case, so I can’t verify this for myself, but… these days, isn’t that no longer an issue for anyhing newer than Turing? I see RTX 3060 TI in there, which should be fully supported by the open-source drivers that NVIDIA themselves recommend for that hardware, no?

Again, I could be wrong since I haven’t had direct personal experience with it since the days when I DO know that your statement accurately reflected the NVIDIA GPU + Linux driver situation.

If shaders don’t get preprocessed, then a lot of the same work has to happen later, it just shows up as a seemingly random frame that takes particularly long to render.

(edit to add:) or a section where some of the rendering doesn’t look quite right initially, if they do asynchronous rendering.

In the limit, the sum of all these delays can add up to the same amount of time that the preprocessing WOULD have taken, but you also don’t necessarily use every shader every time you play every game, so YMMV.

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