DXVK [GitHub] continues the amazing progress towards helping Linux gamers play their favourite Windows-only games on Linux.
Just released minutes ago, DXVK 0.70 adds in the previously announced Direct3D 10 support (more info here). In addition to this, it also adds in support for the D3D11.1 ClearView method and D3D11.1 extended double instructions.
There's also some setup changes to be aware of:
Instead of having to set up 32-bit and 64-bit DLLs separately, the release binaries now come with a custom winetricks verb which sets up both sets of DLLs for 64-bit wine prefixes, and only the 32-bit ones for 32-bit prefixes.
Release notes here for more info on that.
I do honestly love watching DXVK evolve and I'm still shocked and just how quickly it has progressed. I don't personally make use of it, but it's nice that it exists for those who want to be on Linux, but don't want to give up Windows games that are likely to never be ported over.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Avehicle7887 Aug 17, 2018
Quoting: EhvisBut does it run Fortnite?
Sorry. Couldn't resist. I'll see myself out now! :D
It does - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS11MBNaVpw
Thanks to DXVK and Wine it's becoming increasingly easy to switch to Linux without giving up your fav games.
Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 17 August 2018 at 4:35 pm UTC
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Nevertheless Aug 17, 2018
Quoting: CorbenAwesome, just awesome!
I'm wondering if the rumors that Valve could add Windows gaming in any way to Linux/SteamOS is correlated with this?
There is a github project out there already, that let's you use a Windows game with wine communicating with the Linux Steam client. So SteamWorks etc. is working. Of course not officially supported, but Valve could be working on something similar.
So, if we would then get Windows games on Linux with support by Valve and/or the devs and publishers... what do you think about that? On the one hand, oh hell, yes! I could finally play all the games, all of them! On the other hand, I'm afraid about native Linux games.
Maybe it's completely different and nothing like that happens :D
If those rumors are indeed true such a built in Wine wrapper would give us some security that a big chunk of all old Windows titles, plus almost all new titles will at least run on Linux. At the same time Valve helpes to make Vulkan an ideal standard API, which makes native Linux games easier to develop and gives wrapper games better performance.
I like the idea!
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nadrolinux Aug 17, 2018
Quoting: CorbenThere is a github project out there already, that let's you use a Windows game with wine communicating with the Linux Steam client. So SteamWorks etc. is working. Of course not officially supported, but Valve could be working on something similar.Hi,
Can you provide a link to this project? I'm looking for something like that.
Cheers,
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Quoting: Avehicle7887Quoting: EhvisBut does it run Fortnite?
Sorry. Couldn't resist. I'll see myself out now! :D
It does - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS11MBNaVpw
Thanks to DXVK and Wine it's becoming increasingly easy to switch to Linux without giving up your fav games.
Best make that "it did". Since the Fortnite update, not so much anymore.
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Quoting: Avehicle7887Quoting: EhvisBut does it run Fortnite?
Sorry. Couldn't resist. I'll see myself out now! :D
It does - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS11MBNaVpw
Thanks to DXVK and Wine it's becoming increasingly easy to switch to Linux without giving up your fav games.
Technically it doesn't work currently. I can load the game and enter a match before being thrown right back out with "connection lost."
Source
Last edited by drlamb on 17 August 2018 at 6:16 pm UTC
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Avehicle7887 Aug 17, 2018
Quoting: EhvisBest make that "it did". Since the Fortnite update, not so much anymore.
I was hoping to give the game a shot and see what's the craze with Battle Royale games, I only ever tried PUBG on phone which is a different experience than the PC.
Thanks for the heads up, and to @drlamb for the link.
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Quoting: nadrolinuxCan you provide a link to this project? I'm looking for something like that.You can find such a project here: https://github.com/xomachine/SteamForwarder
An older one was SteamBridge.
Beware though, I have never tried this myself, and you might get banned using it.
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legluondunet Aug 18, 2018
Quoting: noxWoW no longer requires the "DXVK_FAKE_DX10_SUPPORT" to run! :D
This variable and others are now obsolete:
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/538
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nadrolinux Aug 18, 2018
Quoting: CorbenThanks a lot! ;)Quoting: nadrolinuxCan you provide a link to this project? I'm looking for something like that.You can find such a project here: https://github.com/xomachine/SteamForwarder
An older one was SteamBridge.
Beware though, I have never tried this myself, and you might get banned using it.
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