Around 6-8 months ago or so, give it take, I switched from windows to POP os. However I switched back rather quickly as I was unable to get RTX features to work like Ray tracing and DLSS. I was watching a video from some ordinary gamers and he mentioned he got all but frame generation working on his Linux machine.

My main question is this: how easy is it to get RTX features working on Linux these days? Was I just doing something wrong before? Was I using the wrong distro for that? I really wanna switch back to Linux but I paid good money for my GPU and want to be able to use it to it’s full extent.

  • Leopard1907BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Only frame generation doesn’t work. Rest ( including ray reconstruct ) does work.

    For getting RT to exposed you needed to pass VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr earlier, with vkd3d-proton released today it is not necessary anymore.

    For DLSS to exposed you need dxvk-nvapi and an env var to activate it on Proton.

    But these days for most Steam games it will be exposed OOB because they have a whitelist that enables it by default, based on appid.

    https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/experimental_8.0/proton#L1097

    Here is the list.

    For non Steam games both Heroic and Lutris includes and enables dxvk-nvapi by default so you will get it there too.