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Apparently [1] the game that got 1000% improvement was previously unplayable at ~9fps.

1. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zink-Sub...

Ok, that’s super weird for sure. I think 1000% improvement is not the appropriate description in that case. A more suitable headline would be like, “Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) allocator now able to play more games at high frame rates”.

9 fps is not a video game, that’s a slide show. And indeed, playing tomb raider where you want to make jumps and stuff, I would not play that on 9 fps ever.

I wouldn't watch a slideshow going 9 slides per second.

And with DXVK you also get Direct3D for free too.

Yeah, I doubt this meant in comparison with native implementations of OpenGL from AMD/Nvidia.

you can already get OpenGL ES 3.1 in vulkan for free via the ANGLE project

OpenGL ES won't help you with most desktop applications.