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- userbinatorDeveloping our own KMD is not really an optionWhy not? Fully open-source Windows GPU drivers would be great. Incidentally, this sort of "glue code" is probably something LLM assistance could help greatly with much of the grunt work.(E.g. there is already a generic framebuffer driver for Win3x/9x: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646363 but one of the ideas I have --- which anyone else with the time is more than welcome to attempt --- is to port the existing open-source Linux drivers for AMD/NVIDIA/Intel to early Windows versions that never even had closed-source drivers available, giving them full 2D/3D acceleration. Theoretically, something as crazy as CUDA on Windows 95 is possible, and perhaps some vibecoding can turn that into reality. After all, as I write this comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089814 is on the main page.)
- leonmengImpressive progress—getting CS2 running is a huge milestone. Hopefully AMD provides a stable KMD interface so this can become more than an exciting experiment.
- Sweepi> New generation is so oversensitive: We were experimenting on Gen 11 hardware (RX 7900 XT) while Faith was working with a 10th Gen GPU (RX 7800 XT). We weren't able to replicate Faith's results for quite a while, due to architecture changes between these two generations.... they are both RDNA3?
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