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If your pc doesn't support vulkan you're fucked, unless you use steam
Vulkan isnt that new though so a 1660 should be fine, right?
I use a 1650ti and it's not supported
1650ti most certainly does support Vulkan. However there may be problems if you have switchable graphics.
Indeed, i have to use optimus manager in X11 in order to let my graphic card process games and other things
What does supporting Vulkan entail?
Steam Proton (which does the heavy lifting of running windows games on linux) includes DXVK/D9VK/VK3D3 which translates Windows DirectX games (don't work on Linux) into Vulkan (which works on Linux)
not having Vulkan will result in falling back on the way older DirectX -> OpenGL translation which not many actually care about nowadays and hasn't been opti.ized to run well in years (awful performance)
How do I know if my PC supports Vulkan?
depends on how old your graphics chip is
typically anything newer than 10 year old will support some level of Vulkan
My msi GF63 thin laptop doesn't...
What graphics card do you have? I think you'd have to have a really old card for it to not support Vulkan. Or perhaps integrated graphics might not support it very well, I'm not too knowledgeable on integrated graphics currently.
Vulkan drivers for your gfx card