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

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: 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.

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.

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.

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.

Quoting: Pompesdesky

Quoting: CAPTNCAPS

Quoting: 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.

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

Quoting: CAPTNCAPS

Quoting: Pompesdesky

Quoting: CAPTNCAPS

Quoting: 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 :/

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

Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: CAPTNCAPS

Quoting: Pompesdesky

Quoting: CAPTNCAPS

Quoting: 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 :/

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?¿