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Quick Vulkan starter pack (if you just want to see if it runs on your system, without compiling anything). Windows-centric, but many things also available for
by bd 11y ago
Quick Vulkan starter pack (if you just want to see if it runs on your system, without compiling anything).
Windows-centric, but many things also available for Linux and Android.
------- Drivers -------
Nvidia GPU driver: https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver (worth trying even if your GPU is not listed as supported, e.g. 900 series mobile Maxwell GPUs like GTX 970M or GTX 980M work ok)
AMD GPU driver: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Vulkan-Beta.aspx http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Vulkan...
------- Demos -------
Nvidia Vulkan Choppers demo: https://nvidia.app.box.com/s/rj9nzxkpz21qu34h8zew301kray9urbf https://nvidia.app.box.com/s/rj9nzxkpz21qu34h8zew301kray9urb...
Nvidia Vulkan Fish demo (threaded rendering): http://developer.download.nvidia.com/mobile/shield/assets/ThreadedRenderingVk/ThreadedRenderingVk_20160215-02.zip http://developer.download.nvidia.com/mobile/shield/assets/Th...
Vulkan examples binaries by Sascha Willems: http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/examples.php http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/examples.php
- requires assets from source distribution (create "bin" subfolder and place binaries there): https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan
- also may need to install Visual Studio 2015 redistributables: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=481...
------- Games -------
Talos Principle: http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/ (there is a free demo available)
See how to enable Vulkan support here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/257510/discussions/0/412447331651559970/ http://steamcommunity.com/app/257510/discussions/0/412447331...
------- Tools -------
Vulkan HW capabilities database: http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/ http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/
Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer: http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php
- gnarbarian 11y agoNvidia also just put out a C++ API as well: https://github.com/nvpro-pipeline/vkcpp https://github.com/nvpro-pipeline/vkcpp
- zanny 11y agoWhy did they call it vk_cpp.h and not vulkan.hpp? Why???
- slavik81 11y agoSadly, it appears that the Intel drivers do not support Ubuntu 14.04 due to a packaging issue with LTS releases. https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/intel-graphics-installer-linux-1.4.0 https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/intel-graphics-instal...
- anthk 11y agoSomeone has to tell that to the xorg-edgers PPA maintainer
- pritambaral 11y agoIntel also released experimental driver for Linux: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/blogs/jekstrand/2016/open-source-vulkan-drivers-intel-hardware https://01.org/linuxgraphics/blogs/jekstrand/2016/open-sourc...