Wine 2.9 released with support for Direct3D tessellation shaders

Well Shmerl has a decent computer, but 43 FPS in a AAA Game in Wine that is using DX11(?).

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Have to move my Witcher 3 Installation and try it for myself :D


Last edited by Beaky on 26 May 2017 at 8:45 am UTC

He's using an AMD card with the open source driver, while Mesa has come a long way, there's tons of performance improvements left to do. Not only that, but you have to remember this is being run in Wine and Wine is not even remotely finished itself.

Well Shmerl has a decent computer, but 43 FPS in a AAA Game in Wine that is using DX11(?).

That's on max settings (except for hairworks and ambient occlusion). On min settings I get 50-60fps (1920x1200). And that's with RX480. Vega probably will allow playing it at 60fps proper even on max settings (since it looks GPU bound here).

He's using an AMD card with the open source driver, while Mesa has come a long way, there's tons of performance improvements left to do. Not only that, but you have to remember this is being run in Wine and Wine is not even remotely finished itself.

Yes indeed, I hope Mesa and Wine will still improve further.

By the way, to run the game you either need Wine staging, or apply at least these two patches to regular Wine:

* https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/ntdll-Grow_Virtual_Heap/0001-ntdll-Remove-memory-limitation-to-32GB-on-64-bit-by-.patch

* https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/wined3d-buffer_create/0001-wined3d-Do-not-pin-large-buffers.patch

Without the first it simply crashes, and without second it runs at around 1 - 5fps.


Last edited by Shmerl on 26 May 2017 at 8:59 am UTC

Some more wine versions with fixes and I might get it in a sale for 10€. Which is a shame, because I would have paid full price for a native version.


Last edited by coeseta on 26 May 2017 at 9:02 am UTC

I will have a video on this later today - this is excellent news, excellent!!!

Nice I will test it on WH40k: Eternal Crusade.

Any progress with GTAV in this Release? Does it even launch or do we have to wait for staging to catch up again?

Wow! The WINE team has been doing some incredible work. What a fantastic time to be a Linux user. I remember in the early 2000's trying to get the native version of Neverwinter Nights working - what a pain. Now we have Steam with some fantastic games, and WINE making progress almost every day. In another couple months the Witcher 3 should be running great. It's the only game I really miss since making the switch 100% to Linux.

WINE sure seems to pick up some steam these days. oO

I have no clue how far they are in terms of actually completing DX11 support, but they sure release a lot of patches now. :)

For me, it's Skyrim, Fallout 4 and ESO I am looking forward no longer to have to boot into Windows for. No clue how far WINE is away from being able to run these, though.

Not sure about others, but I've heard Skyrim runs very well already. At least the classic one (was there a remaster)? I'm not keeping track of Bethesda games. The last good TES game was Morrowind, and for that we have OpenMW. :)

Regarding general progress, DX11 is pretty big, so I guess it might take a while before it all will be implemented. But still, some games can work well even before that. TW3 is a good test case, because it's using really a lot of DX11 features and quite heavy ones.


Last edited by Shmerl on 26 May 2017 at 3:21 pm UTC

Just for curiousity. Can the DRMFREE version of Metro Redux run with this?

Feel free to try. I didn't buy it yet. Even TW3 I was reluctant to buy, because of how CDPR failed to port it, but someone gave me a spare GOG key, so I could test it in Wine.

Thinking of it, I actually prefer that if the game isn't really native, that it should use open wrappers (like winelib), rather than closed ones (eON, Feral's, etc). In this sense, CDPR could partner with CodeWeavers, and sponsor their DX11 development efforts, then at least they wouldn't be breaking their promises.


Last edited by Shmerl on 26 May 2017 at 5:21 pm UTC

Just for curiousity. Can the DRMFREE version of Metro Redux run with this?

Such a shame that the Linux version isn't on GOG... (Like many others too)

Not sure about others, but I've heard Skyrim runs very well already. At least the classic one (was there a remaster)? I'm not keeping track of Bethesda games. The last good TES game was Morrowind, and for that we have OpenMW. :)

Regarding general progress, DX11 is pretty big, so I guess it might take a while before it all will be implemented. But still, some games can work well even before that. TW3 is a good test case, because it's using really a lot of DX11 features and quite heavy ones.

skyrim runs flawlessly through lutris with controller support (under wine) note this is for the original steam version with the optional hd texture pack no the later def version.

Just for curiousity. Can the DRMFREE version of Metro Redux run with this?

Such a shame that the Linux version isn't on GOG... (Like many others too)

I've heard the Linux version is broken anyway (that's why GOG didn't accept it), so not a big deal I suppose.


Last edited by Shmerl on 26 May 2017 at 9:33 pm UTC

This is the current progress of wine dx11 support

d3dcompiler_43: 70.6%
d3dcompiler_46: 64%
d3dcompiler_47: 58.6%
d3d10: 86.2%
d3d10_1: 43.3%
d3dx10_39: 97.8%
d3dx10_43: 73.3%
d3d11: 9.5%
d3dx11_42: 18.2%
d3dx11_43: 29.5%

Pay no attention to the 9.5% percentile.
That hasn't moved at all in the longest
time.

Wine is making great progress. ^_^ Maybe this time next year we will be playing games like TW3 flawlessly on decent hardware.

Anyone managed to run FSW (Flight Sim World)? That's DX11 but I get a crash with wine staging on Ubuntu.

Do you need wine-2.9 or wine-2.8-staging for witcher3? I can not find wine2.9-staging.

Wine2.9-staging has not been released yet. Try again on Tuesday.