Wednesday, June 2nd 2021
Valve Working with NVIDIA to Bring DLSS Support to Linux through Proton
NVIDIA has announced that they are partnering with Valve to bring its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) graphics technology to Linux via Steam Proton. This will allow Linux gamers with an RTX GPU to take advantage of the AI tool to improve their framerates in games through Steam. Proton is an open-source tool from Valve which allows Windows games to be run on Linux, the tool is built into the Linux Steam Client Beta. This news comes after AMD announced their open-source DLSS competitor FidelityFX Super Resolution which supports AMD, and NVIDIA graphics cards.
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NVIDIANVIDIA, Valve, and the Linux gaming community are collaborating to bring NVIDIA DLSS to Proton - Linux gamers will be able to use the dedicated AI cores on GeForce RTX GPUs to boost frame rates for their favorite Windows Games running on the Linux operating system. Support for Vulkan titles is coming this month with DirectX support coming in the Fall.
16 Comments on Valve Working with NVIDIA to Bring DLSS Support to Linux through Proton
Had to laugh when AMD showed off FSR on an nVidia 1060!
I doubt Nvidia is scared about a spatial upscaler, this is nothing new
FSR will never be able to do what DLSS does;
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And this is why every GPU can use FSR. Just an upscaler. DLSS is far more than that.
What will get better? It's spatial upscaling, nothing new and nothing to improve on pretty much
I am looking forward to see a full comparison with DLSS 1.0 and especially DLSS 2.x tho
I mean AMD is probably paying developers not to integrate DLSS into AMD sponsored titles at this point, conversely Nvidia is not doing that (Death Stranding and CP2077 still have FidelityFx)
On a more fun note... I see the NV fanbois feels got hurt? I can see a few crying, but better not argue with the supporters opinions here... Whatever crap they say.
Stay neutral peeps, far lower blood pressure that way!
DLSS being used with an AMD sponsored game? a game that would be advertised by AMD, have DLSS that ONLY Nvidia RTX cards can use? what?? lmaooo, FidelityFx is OPEN SOURCE, IT CAN BE USED BY ANY GRAPHICS CARD, whether AMD or Nvidia, that's why CP2077 and Death stranding use it, old GTX that can't use DLSS and Vega cards etc can benefit from FidelityFx so it's Neutral, can be used in any game, by any card, it's not even special, just sharpening thing that lets old cards run at lower res, and still have some sharpness to the image.
AMD sponsored games using DLSS that AMD cards can't and will never be able to use is STUPID, the game might as well just become an Nvidia sponsored at that point..
I have a 3080 and a 6900XT, so im not a fanboy, because it's also stupid when AMD users ask Metro Exodus Devs to add FSR support, while the game is Sponsored by Nvidia, but FSR is open source, so they might actually do it, it'll be useful for GTX users as well as AMD Vega and Rx 500 cards and even RX 6000 when RT is on.
Game devs can just download the DLSS plugin freely, sign a EULA and that's it. Since integrating DLSS is helping Nvidia specifically I don't know why Nvidia would make fuss