Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal

Save us, EU. You're our only hope. Sincerely, USA

Nvidia: bans platform translation layers for CUDA

Meanwhile AMD: is forbidden from releasing an open source HDMI 2.1 driver supporting 4K@120hz because of HDMI Forums requirements.

These companies are wielding way too much power if they are not afraid to act like this in the open. Bring back making the board of executives and C Suites lives hell when a company so much as inconveniences you.

Yeah fuck this.

... What's a translation layer?

So a knife maker can now forbid me to cut chicken with it?

I give it about 10 years before the EU is invaded by the US after corporate lobbying

Can a EULA ban fair use? Google v Oracle might have something to say about this.

If translation layer can be banned with EULA how is wine not dead yet? M$ loves Linux or what?

This has been said time and time again but fuck Nvidia. Preventing compatibility layers ensures games and programs that need this stuff are extra unreliable, bloated and enshittified.

"How dare you use software on your hardware," says another worthless gaggle of bastard morons.

Just have Jensen Huang flop his dick out and say CUDA is an anti-competitive tactic. It wouldn't be less obvious.

They can prohibit whatever they want, but how enforceable is it? Does Nvidia intend to play whack a mole by checking for translation layers?

Now imagine Microsoft banning the translation of DirectX to Vulkan. Could they do that? That would kill gaming on Linux in a snap.

Here's the problem:

Doesn't matter the country/countries. Due to bureaucracy and lobbying, this will take forever for anyone to get anything done. And by the time it's done, something better will have appeared and will be using any and all loopholes present in whatever bill they pass to do the exact same shit that is happening now.

Bottom should be MooreThreads or some other Chinese GPU maker

What's the performance of software compiled with nvcc running with a translation layer vs software compiled with whatever the native compiler for the hardware is? Generally, native software would run a lot faster but maybe Nvidia's compiler is a lot better at optimizing.

It's too technical.