README.md

linux-nvidia-waydroid-games

Try to find out how to play games in waydroid on a Linux machine with NVIDIA GPU only.

Warning

Currently this approach is not usable. See suboptimal approaches instead.

There are upstream efforts from Mesa/NVK to support NVIDIA-provided kernel module (NVRM).

Steps:

1. Test and contribute to upstream effort.
   • On my Blackwell card (RTX 5060 driver 580.105.08), vulkaninfo and vkcube works. Bevy 2d_shapes works (worse aliasing), but 3d_shapes does not.
   • How to build and test (extracted from upstream comment)

     git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules.git
     cd open-gpu-kernel-modules
     git checkout 580.95.05 # your version via `nvidia-smi`
     cd ..
     git clone https://github.com/no92/mesa-nvk-on-nvo.git
     cd mesa-nvk-on-nvo
     meson setup build -Dvulkan-drivers=nouveau -Dgallium-drivers= -Dnvidia-open-dir=/path/to/open-gpu-kernel-modules
     ninja -C build
     meson devenv -C build vkcube # any vulkan application here

   • Study NVIDIA driver and contribute
2. Find out how mesa works in Waydroid, either patch or rebuild image.
   • Patch is more preferable. On how to patch, see waydroid_script
3. Upstream to Waydroid