DXVK, the Vulkan compatibility layer for Direct3D 11 and Wine has a fresh release reducing CPU overhead

wine 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.

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.

Since 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.

Ah, 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.

Does 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.

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 Apr 2018 at 1:13 am UTC

Does 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 :/

https://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 Apr 2018 at 4:23 pm UTC

Does 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 :/

Have you tried installing it through Lutris? That's what I did and I had no problems with Origin whatsoever.

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?¿

Any advice on Elex ?
Anyone else try ?

Seen some people play it.

As for me I will be giving up on Linux until I change my cpu. Pretty sure my Ryzen 1600 CPU is busted, get lots of very odd crashes for no reason. Works under windows, time to call it quits, glad everyone else is having pretty damn good success non the less.

Does 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 :/

Have you tried installing it through Lutris? That's what I did and I had no problems with Origin whatsoever.

I did but no luck :/

Does someone have the possibility to try out Battlefield 3 and 4?

BF3 I don't think will work because of Battlelog.
[...]

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 :(

This!

Maybe you could set up instructions on WineHQ if you get it working. I will try and do the same. You should state in that case it's been achieved by DXVK - hopefully they will accept that.

Does someone have the possibility to try out Battlefield 3 and 4?

BF3 I don't think will work because of Battlelog.
[...]

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 :(

This!

Maybe you could set up instructions on WineHQ if you get it working. I will try and do the same. You should state in that case it's been achieved by DXVK - hopefully they will accept that.

https://lutris.net/games/battlefield-4/ lutris has a working script there are some steps you need to do lutris will install and config origin and dxvk but the game will have to be installed manually it is detailed in the tab

Thanks for the Infos! Since BF4 is a Multiplayer game it would be nice to find out which DLLs Punkbuster checks for modification. Maybe it's possible to set them to "native" and pass Punkbuster.


It's almost impossible to play unranked games only since the game is dying anyway and you need all servers to find a game going on. (:

@cRaZy-bisCuiT Since DXVK doesn't hot-patch or otherwise inject code into the process after the DLLs have been loaded (unlike tools like Reshade etc.), that shouldn't be too much of an issue with most anti-cheat solutions.

If something works with wined3d, it should be working with dxvk as well at least in that regard.


Last edited by YoRHa-2B on 13 Apr 2018 at 9:49 am UTC

@cRaZy-bisCuiT Since DXVK doesn't hot-patch or otherwise inject code into the process after the DLLs have been loaded (unlike tools like Reshade etc.), that shouldn't be too much of an issue with most anti-cheat solutions.

If something works with wined3d, it should be working with dxvk as well at least in that regard.

Oh well, sorry, this was not DXVK related: In general running games in wine with PunkBuster will cause issues. I'm note sure which files are checked by it but it could be a trial to set them to "native" in wine if only I'd know for sure what they check for. Maybe all DLLs in the game directory? Maybe all the DLLs related to Origin? Mhh...


EDIT:

1. The game runs! Unfortunately I have some weird shader bugs going on there. [0] Do you guys have these glitches as well?
2. As mentioned already, Punkbuster kicks me out of games where it's active. I don't know if there's a workaround to this.

[0]
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/275


Last edited by cRaZy-bisCuiT on 13 Apr 2018 at 3:59 pm UTC

Could it be possible to get all this in a playonlinux script? It's probably a tremendous amount of work, though.

Still great to know that such an awesome tool exists. I hope the AAA game studios and porters will know of it's existence and benefit from it. Maybe we could get more ports this way.

Just tested the new dxvk 0.42 (with Wine 3.6), I ran all over White Orchard area on Horse in Witcher 3 and the stutter (shader compilation) has greatly reduced. Thanks for your work :-)


Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 14 Apr 2018 at 6:59 pm UTC