Turnip’s evolution over the years, supporting flat-screen and VR games
My retrospective on the evolution of the Turnip Vulkan driver and the challenges we overcame over the years of working on it.
Recent Posts
Shooting both feet with BTRFS replace and NVME OPAL encryption
Do test that disk is descryptable after you encrypted it, and don’t use BTRFS replace for just copying data.
Command stream editing as an effective method to debug driver issues
Directly editing commands stream submitted to GPU allows to rapidly test many hypotheses.
Turnips in the wild (Part 3)
More real world bugs! Featuring “Psychonauts 2”, “Injustice 2”, and “Monster Hunter World”.
Debugging Unrecoverable GPU Hangs
Debugging ordinary GPU hangs is too easy? Try hangs that bring the whole machine down!
Turnip now exposes Vulkan 1.3
Turnip, open-source Vulkan driver for Adreno GPUs, has reached a major milestone and now supports all necessary features for Vulkan 1.3
July 2022 Turnip Status Update
A lot of new extensions, GL 4.6 via Zink, major LRZ rework, and coming VK 1.3 conformance.
Low-resolution-Z on Adreno GPUs
Low-resolution-Z (LRZ) is an important optimization but it’s easy to accidentally disable it if you don’t know the limitations.