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My Lgpu is quite old(radeon 7000) but still quite capable, i want to run pre 2012 games but unfortunately Vulkan is not supported by my gpu does such a software exist?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

WineD3D translates to OpenGL. Assuming you're using Linux, it's as easy as running your programs in wine without DXVK.

Don't expect stellar performance though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You can actually get Vulkan on GCN 1 and 2 cards through the AMDGPU driver set. It's just not enabled by default because support is in beta status limbo. YMMV though because a reason I remember upgrading from an R9 280 (HD 7950 refresh) was to get better driver support.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_(SI)and_Sea_Islands(CIK)_support

[–] merthyr1831 1 points 1 year ago

Sigh, miss my little R9 270

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used this trick on my old laptop, which my dad now uses as a light gaming PC. Works well for StarCraft and Rocket League! Even DOOM (2016) works well on low/medium settings. Don't remember which GPU but it wasn't very high powered even when it came out in 2014.

[–] RegalPotoo 1 points 1 year ago

Happy to be corrected but I'd be surprised if it was possible to automatically convert between the two APIs - they are structured very differently, and I wouldn't expect there to be many 1-to-1 mappings