Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows
10 hours ago
- Valve is funding Collabora to explore porting the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows.
- The effort relies on AMD's official Windows kernel driver instead of porting the Linux AMDGPU driver, requiring reverse engineering of proprietary structures.
- A key challenge is the lack of a stable, documented interface, which may need a shim library to handle changes between AMD driver releases.
- The experimental work has successfully demoed Counter-Strike 2 running on Windows with RADV.