D9VK for D3D9 over Vulkan in Wine has another release out, advancing quickly

He is doing fantastic work, and there are a few games I want to see how this does for; chiefly Guild Wars 2


whats more amazing is if this comment is to be believed he is only 17!

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/bntn0n/d9vk_011_released/en9z1is?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

That is amazing!
My biggest accomplishments at 17 were drinking too many tequila shots and being obnoxious... oh how times have changed. Hmm. Well, at least there's way fewer tequila shots these days.

About double their age, about half as smart. Way to make me really feel old Mr Ashton ;)

I learnt that the best thing you can do for your kids is to keep them happy, curious, and value that they are different (and other people are too). Stress & expectations is such a performance killer, and us older parents are stressed by so many expectations :-(

I remember the stuff I did at a similar age, and it was honestly much more hardcore than the boring work I do now...

This d9vk version have improvements compared with wined3d for example:

Star trek 2013 shows textures correctly (wined3d shows various textures in black), duke nuke forever now shows correctly (no more light problem) and other titles case dirt 1 (in my case) dont run with regular wined3d implementation but with d9vk runs

Without forget d9vk framerate is more smooth with more performance and less cpu usage compared wined3d

DiRT 1



D9VK With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25fdq217AT0


StarTrek 2013



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8y6AgTms4M

D9VK With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ix1NmsOJhc


Duke Nuke Forever Updated (in before d9vk versions dont show correctly and now works without issues)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8X7mTOstJk

Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGOLrSZtRbQ

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIqFEr_0hrQ

D9VK With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8X7mTOstJk


System Specs Used in Tests

Nvidia Drivers 418.52.03 (run package from nvidia drivers homepage)

Xubuntu 18.04 x64 - Kernel 4.17.12 generic (ubuntu mainline) -

CPUFreq: Performance

CPU: Core i3 8350K Tri-Core (Coffelake 14nm) 5.0Ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

MEMORY: 8GB DDR4 2400mhz (4x2) Mushkin (dual channel: 37.5 gb/s)

GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 OC (GP107 14nm: 640 Shaders / 40 TMUS / 32 ROPS) Windforce 2GB DDR5 7000Mhz 128Bit (110Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: ASUS Z370-P

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 13 May 2019 at 12:32 pm UTC

Quoting: mrdeathjr

You are actually regularly testing Duke Nukem Forever?

I did start this game once, played like 5 min and those felt like pure torture. Can't imagine to ever start it again


Last edited by const on 13 May 2019 at 2:03 pm UTC

When I was 17, it was the year 1995 and I didn't have a computer then...

Boring days!
My only entertainment was TV, a Sega Genesis clone console, magazines about electronics and the Argentinian editions of some Marvel comics.

But when I was 15 I did experiments with home made audio amplifiers and radio transmissions in frequency modulation.. I had fun calculating the RF coils for the Hartley oscillator with a formula published in the Argentinian edition magazine Saber Electrónica.

Enjoy as much as you can, dude! As long as you get old, your brain quickly will get rusty.

Quoting: liamdaweAbout double their age, about half as smart. Way to make me really feel old Mr Ashton ;)

Impressive for sure. But I think what he intends to say in his comment - people could. I could, but I am personally missing the motivation getting home after a work day as a software developer to do even more. The technical understanding is there, I'd be missing a lot of skills in d3d9 and vulkan though, but that's not impossible to learn. The motivation is the key. He has it.

I think the project is great for him for his future professional life, it's a good reference to have applying for good jobs, if he decideds to go that route as a software developer.

He has my respect, for his skills at that age and that he kept the motivation going forward until d9vk where it is now. And hopefully some time to go. It's not as if d3d9 APIs change at all now. Though, will be interesting to see how many games need "custom" fixes, seems to be pretty common in dxvk by now.

Next thing I'll try with it will probably be ME1/2. I had quite some issues with wine implementation (framerates) on my ATI card. Or DA:O, because I'd really love to play it again (it works with wine, but proton gives me a lot of input issues).

Hello:

Until now I install always DXVK (1.1.1 last).

Today I install the last D9VK (I read changes in Skyrim that I am playing) with setup_dxvk install included in the package.

I can see:



Seems all OK but I am worried by this note of Joshua:

"Please do not use wine's d3d9x or d3dcompiler with d9vk"

I need to do something more apart of the setup_dxvk install?


Thanks in advance.

Quoting: ajgpHe is doing fantastic work, and there are a few games I want to see how this does for; chiefly Guild Wars 2

It works really good with this latest version, I started playing last Saturday (haven't played since 2015 I think), with some hiccups on fps but now I have 60fps (vsync) constant in my old machine with this version.