Why doesnt we have vulkan instead of GL on retropie?

[edneyhelene]

I was thinking about it, what if we had vulkan instead of GL, shouldnt emulators run better with it? it think it worths a try, to use vulkan on em and enable it for users, specially on dreamcast, psp, n64, 3do and others that run bad.

[mitu]

@edneyhelene Are you talking about the RetroPie version that runs on x86 ? Because the Raspberry PI video driver (VC4) in Raspbian barely supports OpenGL and Vulkan support is not implemented.

[edneyhelene]

im talking about raspberry pi version, it should be implemented...it would run alot better

[dankcushions]

the gpu in all pi models is GLES2, and vulkan requires GLES 3.x, so it fundamentally couldn't support it. maybe the pi4.

[mitu]

@edneyhelene

im talking about raspberry pi version, it should be implemented...it would run alot better

I woudn't hold my breath on it, honestly. Video drivers are out of the RetroPie project's control and are totally up to the vendor or other Linux developers.

[edneyhelene]

hummmmmmmmmmm got it, sorry to hear that =x

thanks alot anyways for this amazing comunity and software!

[rubencg]

Pi4's Vulkan driver has been merged into the Mesa repo. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/vulkan-update-merged-to-mesa/