Vulkan API support

[ADormant]

Vulkan has been released. Vulkan would be great because it has the same compatibility between desktop and mobile.

https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0-wsi_extensions/xhtml/vkspec.html#introduction https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/apispec.html https://github.com/KhronosGroup https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-releases-vulkan-1-0-specification https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/ https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan https://github.com/vlj/rpcs3/tree/vulkan https://github.com/benvanik/xenia/commit/77a321135ed1b3761aac2834a74d89020c91626c https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-android#samples https://developer.nvidia.com/opengl-vulkan http://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/gameworks/downloads/secure/Vulkan_Beta_Drivers/GL_NV_draw_vulkan_image.txt?autho=1455829837_943009fc44a87ca0da72226e0897938a&file=GL_NV_draw_vulkan_image.txt

https://github.com/nvpro-samples https://github.com/McNopper/Vulkan https://github.com/nvpro-pipeline/vkcpp https://github.com/john-chapman/VulkanTest https://github.com/mlaveaux/VulkanRenderer https://github.com/pld-linux/vulkan-loader https://github.com/FaultyRAM/vulkan-sys https://github.com/kainino0x/rust-vulkan https://github.com/LunarG/VulkanSamples https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Khronosdotorg/blob/master/api/vulkan/resources.md https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano

[Krutonium]

:+1:

[DerekTurtleRoe]

@ADormant Making the emulator more accurate using a tried and true API is first priority, but I think Vulkan could greatly enhance GLideN64's performance in some cases. On lower-end devices, I mean. Android and such.

[Krutonium]

I could see Vulkan having the side effect of allowing more accurate emulation because of how low level it is - you would gave far more control over the way anything is rendered. Am I wrong?

[DerekTurtleRoe]

@PFCKrutonium Those two statements aren't necessarily in correlation, but yes, in general you would be correct. If you just simply switched over to Vulkan you wouldn't get any benefit necessarily. You would have to use the API in a beneficial way.

[olivieryuyu]

https://github.com/libretro/mupen64plus-libretro/tree/master/mupen64plus-video-paraLLEl

[FuzzyQuils]

Now this could be interesting. Pitty I don't have a Vulkan capable machine atm...

[fallaha56]

have tried it

interface is awful, just needs a simple GUI but the software looks pretty awesome

[DerekTurtleRoe]

@olivieryuyu @FuzzyQuills @fallaha56 Unfortunately, while this approach is pretty good, it still uses a lot of the code re-used and hacked on by many people, and it doesn't really solve most of the problems that N64 emulators face. It's still a good choice, but it is a complex one.

[LegendOfDragoon]

it still uses a lot of the code re-used and hacked on by many people

care to give examples?

[DerekTurtleRoe]

@LegendOfDragoon Sorry, I was thinking of GLupen64.

[shinra358]

I really want this as well.