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Apple never released a driver that supports Vulkan out of the box, therefore MoltenVK was born, which translates Vulkan IR to Metal source then recompiles to Me
by etra0 3mo ago
Apple never released a driver that supports Vulkan out of the box, therefore MoltenVK was born, which translates Vulkan IR to Metal source then recompiles to Metal shaders.
This was the pipeline in Proton for macOS (I'm not sure if it's still is the case, been quite a while since I checked).
- debugnik 3mo agoProton itself doesn't exist for macOS, but CrossOver already existed instead, which is mostly the same tech, and indeed supports D3D either through DXVK over MoltenVK, or through Apple's D3DMetal.
- throwaway27448 3mo agoI'm more surprised by DXVK working cleanly