The Vulkan-based compatibility layer for D3D 11 and Wine 'DXVK' has a new release out

How fast this project is advancing is truly impressive. Hope the guy behind it, doitsujin (German in japanese), stays motivated.

How fast this project is advancing is truly impressive. Hope the guy behind it, doitsujin (German in japanese), stays motivated.

Thankfully all the code is there, so anyone can come along and pick it up if they ever stop. However, it's so far along I don't see why they would. I doubt it's that far off being included directly in Wine.

As I reported earlier on the usual "DXVK runs Nier Automata" thread, The Witcher 3 stutters less for me compared to 0.41. That Titan Fall 2 video is impressive, 100+ FPS on 970, holy crap :-)

Incredible hacking in the noble meaning of the word.
Honestly most of the game not only work fine, but as a recent exemple: I wanted to replay the Prince of Persia Trilogy. I thought the second episode was not working, but it was due to the way I mounted my ISO. So I played it on windows 7 64bit, and the game kept of crashing all the time on the beginning of the game. I found a way around but the cinematics were buggy, and the was crashing every two loading. At one point my character suddenly had the skin of my double shadow which it's not meant to happen in the game.

I retried and install the game on wine with correct mounting of ISO, and then I realised some parts of the game and quest were not present when I was playing on windows. Like some action, movies, enigmas and chase part of the game had completly disappeared, but on linux with wine, everything was working normally without crash bug/glitch...

Really crazy stuff!

I also saw the movie from GTA V played on linux through DXVK from Xpander and it's Wow!!! Once again it's pretty stunning, it also seems to perform very well! Time to entirely ditch windows is coming way closer than I expected. Really wine team does some computing magic for all those lost treasure with no ports.


Last edited by Jahimself on 14 Apr 2018 at 11:35 pm UTC

The performances offered by DXVK compared to the openGL renderer are stratospheric.
I just tested it with The Witcher 3, and it brings the game from barely playable to totally enjoyable.
There are probably still some optimisations to do, but it's definitely a huge improvement. I don't know if it will be included in the Wine main branch any time soon so, because they need to support older DX versions as well (like DX9 and DX10), while they actually only support DX11.

Kingdom Come still has issues on NVIDIA cards, and apparently certain AMD cards when sleeping. It seems DXVK works best on AMD cards so far? unfortunately I doubt fixes will come for NVIDIA users as the main dev only has AMD card and can't reproduce anything to figure it out.

Does DXGI Gamma Control functions which are needed for Battlefield 3 also fix the broken shader issues with Battlefield 4?

It would be interesting to see a benchmark comparison between the Feral port of Mad Max running in Vulkan mode and the windows version running via wine DXVK...

I don't know anything about licences, but there's a chance (even insignificant) to steam or the developer apply DXVK to the game and sell it as Linux game?

I have an impression that @YoRHa-2B works on the project full time. Is someone sponsoring it? It's hardly a side hobby project by the looks of it.

The performances offered by DXVK compared to the openGL renderer are stratospheric.
I just tested it with The Witcher 3, and it brings the game from barely playable to totally enjoyable.

To be clear, performance of TW3 with wined3d is not normal now, it's very bad, and Wine developers know about it and are working to address it. It's not as much a limitation of OpenGL, as some issue with particular usage of it.


Last edited by Shmerl on 15 Apr 2018 at 3:57 am UTC

I don't know anything about licences, but there's a chance (even insignificant) to steam or the developer apply DXVK to the game and sell it as Linux game?

I don't see a reason why not. But in their place, I'd back both Wine and dxvk projects in some way, since it would be only fair.

actually one of the devs had mentioned aspirations of DXVK possibly becoming a legitimate porting tool in one of it's Github issue post

Do you know who? I expected this to happen eventually.

Is there a way of donating him a few bugs to keep motivation up and show my appreciation?

Is there a way of donating him a few bugs to keep motivation up and show my appreciation?

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/88#issuecomment-380160556

This suggests, that someone is already sponsoring the project, but it's just a guess. Given various compatibility efforts by Valve, I wouldn't be surprised if them or someone similar is backing it.


Last edited by Shmerl on 15 Apr 2018 at 4:34 am UTC

itsimpossible to track what games play right and what games are missing something like that.

emulators do a better coverage of what is implemented what is missing.

what i want to know is:
whats is needed to an game to run perfectly, and what we already have...

"Added support for DXGI Gamma Control functions"
means nothing for me.

" Ni No Kuni II had a fix for a bunch of missing textures"
means nothing.

but if we list what is missing and start to exclude things from the missing list...

what i want to know is:
whats is needed to an game to run perfectly, and what we already have...

It's a young project, so games coverage is far from comprehensive. Check the list of known bugs. If your game is not listed there - then your guess is as good as any. If you already have the game - try it out and see for yourself and report bugs about what doesn't work. If you don't have the game - better don't buy it then.


Last edited by Shmerl on 15 Apr 2018 at 4:43 am UTC

Is there a way of donating him a few bugs to keep motivation up and show my appreciation?

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/88#issuecomment-380160556

This suggests, that someone is already sponsoring the project, but it's just a guess. Given various compatibility efforts by Valve, I wouldn't be surprised if them or someone similar is backing it.

Well, be it Valve or someone else, this is an amazingly impressive effort and the entire ecosystem can benefit. If the developer ever does accept donations, let us know. I'd be happy to contribute.

Is anyone keeping a list of what titles DXVK enables to be used, similar to what WineHQ does for Wine?


Last edited by iiari on 15 Apr 2018 at 6:12 am UTC

does this have to be recomplied with each release or can certain files just be replaced?

Is anyone keeping a list of what titles DXVK enables to be used, similar to what WineHQ does for Wine?

I'm trying all my DX11 games yet.
Skyrim SE, Batman: Arkham City, Arkham Origins, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Witcher 3 are playable with some graphic issues.
Quantum Break's unplayable.
Can't launch Far Cry 3 due to the need of Steam AND Uplay.


Last edited by Lolo01 on 15 Apr 2018 at 11:32 am UTC