#nvk

It's been more than 2 years since I posted A Hat in Time running on NVK (Mesa Nvidia Vulkan driver) with reclocking, so I got curious how much it improved since then on the same hardware (my old gaming laptop with GTX 1660 Ti). From probably GPU bound 51fps to being heavily CPU bound 104fps is a pretty nice jump. If I remember correctly, proprietary drivers even when CPU bound is still faster here, so there's still some work to be done. #nvk #nouveau #linux #linux_gaming

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