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

@rubencg said in Have there been any news about Vulkan Drivers for the Pi4 since February?:

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

hmmm... wouldn't get your hopes up too high.

I compiled and installed using these instructions

then i tried some things

a self compiled version of ppsspp with vulkan support. conclusion: vulkan works, but framerate on vulkan lower than with opengl backend a self compiled version ofr retroarch with lr-mupen64plus-next with vulcan support. On the normal open gl renderer it works, but gives a segmentation fault on the angrylion vulkan rendererer a self compiled version of retroarch with lr-parallel: same segmentation fault on the same renderer

so apparently a lot of work to be done before we get benefits using vulkan....

@BJRetro I confirm you'll need a gpu which is vulkan capable (and it's drivers). Currently i don't think there are many SBCs who have vulkan support (probably jetson nano ? maybe odroid N2 ?).

@Efriim said in Which emulators benefit from Vulkan (x86)?:

lr-Kronos(Sega Saturn) - In development

The author showed interest in it and bought a book for this purpose, but development hasn't started yet. That's why i said in https://www.libretro.com/index.php/kronos-1-7-0-new-renderer/ that it was added on the roadmap but to not ask for an ETA, at the very least don't expect anything this year.

@legion28 i have the same problem, only solution is to downgrade RA version...
In my case, when a press Xbox 360 guide button, its return to emulationstation...

@buzz

Thanks a lot - yeah I thought i'd open an enhancement anyway as I did some reading and one of the Retroarch devs confirmed the SW and HW cores are identical, except the HW one has the additional options. Both are the same if you run in software mode:
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/7hxke8/psa_psx_beetle_hw_is_absolutely_amazing/dquv1jp/

So I figured it would probably be a useful enhancement enabling HW support at some stage - albeit I appreciate not high priority.

@psyke83 has kindly done a bit of work already to enable and i'm happy to test this out:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2279

Thanks again.