Since there's a lot of excitement around DXVK we've been following it closely and a fresh release made it out last night.
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.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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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.
Since wine 3.5 the Ubuntu package supports Vulkan (at least for 64 bit binaries). The 3.4 package did not.
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TheRiddick Apr 9, 2018
Yeah witcher 3 seems to be the easiest to get going, KCD and many others are extremely finicky.
Doing a fresh install of wine et al now, unlikely to help but ya never know.
Doing a fresh install of wine et al now, unlikely to help but ya never know.
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Quoting: silmethSince wine 3.5 the Ubuntu package supports Vulkan (at least for 64 bit binaries). The 3.4 package did not.
Ah, that's good. Using WineHQ packaged version is also a good option.
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Quoting: ShmerlAh, that's good. Using WineHQ packaged version is also a good option.
I did mean WineHQ packaged ones (sorry I wasn’t clear on that) – the latest wine package maintained by Ubuntu maintainers themselves currently is 2.18. So when I wrote ‘Ubuntu packages’ I had ‘packages installed as per WineHQ instructions for installing on Ubuntu’ in my mind.
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DasCapschen Apr 9, 2018
Quoting: PompesdeskyQuoting: 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 :(
Someone put an install script on Lutris https://lutris.net/games/battlefield-4/
But essentially, you need a 64bit Wine 3.5 Prefix with DXVK set to Windows 10 and then it should be enough to install Origin and the game.
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TheRiddick Apr 9, 2018
https://forum.kingdomcomerpg.com/t/linux-running-kc-d-with-wine/41173
And game works, funny how absolutely nobody mentioned this nugget!
(didn't see that info on the original video until recently, either I'm blind or he made some edits :) )
Sadly wine can't seem to pass on 4k knowledge to games so 1920x1080 is the only options I get (no console overrides work)
EDIT: Virtual Desktop fixes that. However game runs really bad in that mode.
The real issue is the second monitor so disabling that before playing fixes the problem. Most other games don't seem to have this issue, just KCD. Lutris has a nice feature to overcome this problem.
Last edited by TheRiddick on 10 April 2018 at 1:13 am UTC
And game works, funny how absolutely nobody mentioned this nugget!
(didn't see that info on the original video until recently, either I'm blind or he made some edits :) )
Sadly wine can't seem to pass on 4k knowledge to games so 1920x1080 is the only options I get (no console overrides work)
EDIT: Virtual Desktop fixes that. However game runs really bad in that mode.
The real issue is the second monitor so disabling that before playing fixes the problem. Most other games don't seem to have this issue, just KCD. Lutris has a nice feature to overcome this problem.
Last edited by TheRiddick on 10 April 2018 at 1:13 am UTC
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Arehandoro Apr 9, 2018
Quoting: CAPTNCAPSQuoting: PompesdeskyQuoting: 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 :(
Someone put an install script on Lutris https://lutris.net/games/battlefield-4/
But essentially, you need a 64bit Wine 3.5 Prefix with DXVK set to Windows 10 and then it should be enough to install Origin and the game.
Following those steps, except setting level of Windows to 10, last night couldn't install Origin, always getting some QTWebInterface errors :/
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Quoting: TheRiddickhttps://forum.kingdomcomerpg.com/t/linux-running-kc-d-with-wine/41173
And game works, funny how absolutely nobody mentioned this nugget!
yeah you need to copy the dlls otherwise KC: D stays black. There is also a open bug at winehq https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44520 regarding that issue.
I made a new KC: D video with low and high graphic settings.
View video on youtube.com
Last edited by holzi on 9 April 2018 at 4:23 pm UTC
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DasCapschen Apr 9, 2018
Quoting: ArehandoroHave you tried installing it through Lutris? That's what I did and I had no problems with Origin whatsoever.Quoting: CAPTNCAPSQuoting: PompesdeskyQuoting: 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 :(
Someone put an install script on Lutris https://lutris.net/games/battlefield-4/
But essentially, you need a 64bit Wine 3.5 Prefix with DXVK set to Windows 10 and then it should be enough to install Origin and the game.
Following those steps, except setting level of Windows to 10, last night couldn't install Origin, always getting some QTWebInterface errors :/
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TheRiddick Apr 10, 2018
Would love to see KCD tested on a Vega64, give us some high end figures for the amdgpu dc driver. I wonder if it will perform better then NVIDIA cards?¿
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