The favored lsfg-vk mission that brings Lossless Scaling’s body technology to Linux now has the massive 2.0 launch formally out. After a little bit of an upset over it changing licenses and moving on from GitHub, it is good to see it nonetheless going.
With it you’ll be able to acquire a good quantity of additional efficiency in some titles, however there may be drawbacks like further enter lag. It is actually not a one-size-fits-all device. You additionally have to personal a replica of Lossless Scaling on Steam to get it to work, as this simply brings options from it to Linux.
Announced on the official weblog, the modifications are beneath.
- A completely new bindless pipeline has been written. This pipeline brings a bunch of recent options with it.
- FP16 acceleration: On techniques with a 2:1 FP16 ratio, akin to most AMD laptops and handhelds, efficiency will likely be 2x-3x as quick as earlier than, with out shedding any high quality in any respect.
- Reminiscence reuse: The brand new bindless pipeline reuses reminiscence wherever attainable, utilizing solely 30% as a lot reminiscence as earlier than. This beats even the Home windows model by a landslide!
- Dropping Vulkan to 1.2: This would possibly appear to be a downgrade at first, however dropping the required Vulkan model from 1.3 to 1.2 really has no impact on lsfg-vk itself. As a substitute, it allows assist for lsfg-vk to (so far as I do know) each single Vulkan-capable GPU ever!
- Processes may be recognized through Linux binary, Home windows executable and Steam App ID, that means it’s simpler than ever to arrange a profile in your recreation.
- A brand new device
lsfg-vk-clican be utilized for numerous duties.- Benchmarking:
lsfg-vk-cli benchmarkcan be utilized to benchmark lsfg-vk and see how nicely it performs in your system. - Validation:
lsfg-vk-cli validatecan be utilized to validate the configuration file and examine for errors. - Healthcheck:
lsfg-vk-cli healthcheckcan be utilized to examine for legacy, duplicate and lacking recordsdata in your system.
- Benchmarking:
- The consumer interface is now Qt6-based, not GTK+Rust. This brings the filesize down from 70 MB to just some kilobytes. It’ll additionally combine neatly into the KDE desktop.
- Prebuilt lsfg-vk now additionally incorporates a layer for 32-bit video games, which works seamlessly.
- Numerous bug fixes and minor high quality enhancements.
- Compatibility fixes for a lot of, many video games and purposes.
For anybody utilizing it – tell us the way you’re utilizing it within the feedback!
🌐 Exterior Sources: lsfg-vk.dev