(Image credit: Nvidia) NVK, the community-built open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs in Mesa, has gained experimental DLSS support, with the code landing in Mesa 26.2-devel, as reported by Phoronix . The driver doesn’t reimplement the upscaler but instead loads Nvidia's own pre-compiled CUDA binaries and runs them, a workaround that keeps the feature behind an experimental flag and ties it to whether compatible bytecode exists for a given card. Nvidia's proprietary Linux driver has of course handled DLSS for years, so the change closes one of the bigger gaps between the closed driver and its open-source counterpart, rather than bringing the technology to Linux for the first time. DLSS runs on NVK through VK_NVX_binary_import, a Vulkan extension that lets an application load Nvidia CuBIN files, the pre-baked CUDA binaries Nvidia, and loads them on the GPU.…