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For those who don't remember it, DXVK is the compatibility layer for running Direct3D 11 games in Wine using Vulkan. It's a very promising project, with a lot of people having fun with it already on Linux.
The latest release, version 0.41, has a slight reduction of overall CPU overhead, has better GPU saturation when Deferred Contexts are used for rendering and features a configurable HUD. The announcement also notes five bugs fixed, one which will make Mesa users happy as it fixes tessellation shaders causing a crash in Mesa drivers.
An an example of how it runs, here's a video from well-known Linux YouTuber Xpander showing off Kingdom Come: Deliverance using a previous build of DXVK:
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Very impressive stuff there, hopefully it will make it into Wine proper when it's further developed. Projects like this, could really help more people dual-boot and eventually be full Linux gamers.
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TheRiddick Apr 9, 2018
Yeah I have that disabled by default. I'm starting to wonder if the game is flipping out because of screen resolution (im at 4k and its trying to run 1080p), or perhaps some other default game configuration.
I remember under windows it had some issues switching display modes at times.
EDIT: Got a slightly different error this time. 0114:err:d3dcompiler:compile_shader HLSL shader parsing failed.
Thinking the latest version of dxvk might have broke something.
Last edited by TheRiddick on 9 April 2018 at 9:39 am UTC
I remember under windows it had some issues switching display modes at times.
EDIT: Got a slightly different error this time. 0114:err:d3dcompiler:compile_shader HLSL shader parsing failed.
Thinking the latest version of dxvk might have broke something.
Last edited by TheRiddick on 9 April 2018 at 9:39 am UTC
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Pompesdesky Apr 9, 2018
Quoting: CAPTNCAPSQuoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTDoes someone have the possibility to try out Battlefield 3 and 4?BF3 I don't think will work because of Battlelog.
I tried out BF4 tho and it works pretty well! There are a few bugs, and (at least on my AMD card) particles draw as black boxes, which can be pretty irritating. Also Punkbuster is not really happy about us using modified DLLs and you probably will get kicked from servers. Singleplayer and Unranked/No PB Servers should be fine though :)
I was running Medium Settings, 720p on a RX480 at 100-200fps ^-^
Do you happen to have a link to something explaining how to make BF4 work ? All I can see is a Garbage status for the game on WineHQ and can't find any relevant info on making it actually work :(
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Arehandoro Apr 9, 2018
I finally managed to install dxvk yesterday with The Witcher 3 :)
Firstly I must say, with Wine 3.5, it was much simpler than I was expecting. Only had to download the nightly files of dxvk and apply the script to the wineprefix I had created for the game.
Secondly, the game runs smoothly and nicely. I have everything on High, with some Ultra options enabled, and the experience it's wonderful. However, shadows seem a bit too dark and somehow I can't change the resolution from within the game -Which I guess is running at the native one to my desktop-
Lastly, I will have to give it a go with some other games to do more testing. Are the Arkham Asylum games DX11? Is it possible to setup vk9 and dxvk on the same prefix?
Firstly I must say, with Wine 3.5, it was much simpler than I was expecting. Only had to download the nightly files of dxvk and apply the script to the wineprefix I had created for the game.
Secondly, the game runs smoothly and nicely. I have everything on High, with some Ultra options enabled, and the experience it's wonderful. However, shadows seem a bit too dark and somehow I can't change the resolution from within the game -Which I guess is running at the native one to my desktop-
Lastly, I will have to give it a go with some other games to do more testing. Are the Arkham Asylum games DX11? Is it possible to setup vk9 and dxvk on the same prefix?
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TheRiddick Apr 9, 2018
Yeah witcher 3 works for me but KCD is black screen, so must be a new bug somewhere either in DXVK or NVIDIA drivers? or it could be the recent KCD patch? only someone with a previously working KCD would know.
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Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: razing32Elex
Tried to run it and got that. There was also an exception window but I could not select it.
It's odd , I get the two logos then a black screen.
On regular wine (3.4 I think) i managed to see both the intros and the main menu but trying to start a game resulted in a black screen.
Are you using Steam version? If yes, make sure to disable Steam overlay. I've heard it's not compatible with dxvk. GOG version obviously shouldn't have this problem.
It's the GOG version.
But thanks for the heads up.
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Please can someone points to a clear text tutorial to install DXVK plus the witcher 3, or details here how to do that (in fact lost in winprefix and stuff like that). Thanks ^_^
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Quoting: Geppeto35Please can someone points to a clear text tutorial to install DXVK plus the witcher 3, or details here how to do that (in fact lost in winprefix and stuff like that). Thanks ^_^
Installation of dxvk is explained on the project page: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
About setting up a custom prefix (or custom Wine), see:
* How to use custom prefix.
* How to use custom Wine.
Last edited by Shmerl on 9 April 2018 at 12:28 pm UTC
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Arehandoro Apr 9, 2018
Quoting: Geppeto35Please can someone points to a clear text tutorial to install DXVK plus the witcher 3, or details here how to do that (in fact lost in winprefix and stuff like that). Thanks ^_^
Assuming you have wine64 installed and wine 3.5 installed:
WINEPREFIX="~/Path/to/your/directory" wine wineboot
export WINEPREFIX="~/Path/to/your/directory"Download the 10 files for The Witcher 3 from GOG. And download the 64 bits files stored in https://haagch.frickel.club/files/dxvk/latest/ for dxvk.
mkdir /path/for/dxvkIn that folder there should be the same structure/files that is on the ftp server above. That is "bin" and "lib64" within dxvk folder plus 2 files and a script in "bin" and two files on "lib64"
cd /your/dxvk/directory/bin
WINEPREFIX=/Path/to/your/wineprefix bash setup_dxvk.shSee that completes successfully.
wine setup_the_witcher_3.exeWait for the installation to finish and off you go. I didn't have to do anything else and sorry for bad explanation, not much time at work for a better one xD
Cheers
Last edited by Arehandoro on 9 April 2018 at 12:40 pm UTC
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Quoting: Arehandorowine setup_the_witcher_3.exeUsing Wine like that assumes that default Wine supports Vulkan. Many report that Ubuntu's version and some others too do not. So it's recommended to build Wine from source and use that custom one, which needs some additional environment setup like above. Same applies to running setup_dxvk.sh by the way.
Last edited by Shmerl on 9 April 2018 at 12:41 pm UTC
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Arehandoro Apr 9, 2018
Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: Arehandorowine setup_the_witcher_3.exe
Using Wine like that assumes that default Wine supports Vulkan. Many report that Ubuntu's version and some others too do not. So it's recommended to build Wine from source and use that custom one, which needs some additional environment setup like above. Same applies to running setup_dxvk.sh by the way.
I didn't know. Feel very lucky now that in my case was so easy. Thanks for the heads up though.
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