D9VK, the project based on DXVK for translating D3D9 to Vulkan which is used together with Wine has a massive new release now available.
Joshua Ashton sure is doing some impressive work, how ridiculously quickly this has come along is crazy. I'm constantly astonished by all the work going on in various projects like this, to help keep pushing Linux gaming forwards in so many different ways.
Released just recently, D9VK 0.12 code-named "Cool Lookin' Blue Frog" includes much improved performance in various areas thanks to entirely rewritten texture code, which should be faster overall. There's also a rewritten presentation and swapchain code, improvements to stuttering for games like A Hat in Time and League of Legends and various new features which will also improve rendering in a bunch more games too.
There's also a ton of bug fixes that come along with this release, you can see the full release notes here.
As a reminder, there's a post in our forum with people showing off various shots of it running, quite fun to follow along.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Hmh, WoW 1.12 client is still black. But we all knew the engine was crap ;-)
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Quoting: GuestQuoting: trawzAwesome! I was playing A Hat in Time through Proton, but the performance was quite bad. Switched to d9vk and it was incredibly fast, but I experienced some crashes. Seems those are fixed now!
Yes! I also once tried that game but with the same issue as you described. I need to check it out as well! :D
I wondering when Lutris will add D9VK support
There are some games that already have support. For example, Sims 4: https://lutris.net/games/the-sims-4/
That thing worked flawlessly on a Intel HD 520 (i3 6006u)... no clue how that is possible.
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Quoting: x_wingThat thing worked flawlessly on a Intel HD 520 (i3 6006u)... no clue how that is possible.
Magic. Obviously.
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How can you use D9VK with Proton? I'd like to compare proton Skyrim vs D9VK Skyrim
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I have been asking about Skyrim because the SE version has some issue in my machine.
Besides the famous sound instability, I noticed heavy ghosting when rotating the camera.
My monitor is crappy (4ms response I think), but other games run way better (in terms of image ghosting).
Besides the famous sound instability, I noticed heavy ghosting when rotating the camera.
My monitor is crappy (4ms response I think), but other games run way better (in terms of image ghosting).
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iwantlinuxgames May 30, 2019
Quoting: khalismurHow can you use D9VK with Proton? I'd like to compare proton Skyrim vs D9VK Skyrim
download and extract the latest D9VK archive and extract it.
then perform the following commands in a terminal:
cd d9vk-0.12/
WINEPREFIX=$PATH_TO_STEAM_LIBRAY_LOCATION/steamapps/compatdata/$STEAM_APP_ID/pfx/ ./setup_dxvk.sh installthis will install d9vk into that game's specific proton prefix...running setup_dxvk.sh uninstall will revert the changes....
note that some games under proton with d9vk may exhibit behaviour that may or may not be experienced using vanilla wine/wine-staging....
Last edited by iwantlinuxgames on 30 May 2019 at 4:17 am UTC
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Quoting: iwantlinuxgamesCheers for the information man!Quoting: khalismurHow can you use D9VK with Proton? I'd like to compare proton Skyrim vs D9VK Skyrim
download and extract the latest D9VK archive and extract it.
then perform the following commands in a terminal:
cd d9vk-0.12/
WINEPREFIX=$PATH_TO_STEAM_LIBRAY_LOCATION/steamapps/compatdata/$STEAM_APP_ID/pfx/ ./setup_dxvk.sh install
this will install d9vk into that game's specific proton prefix...running setup_dxvk.sh uninstall will revert the changes....
note that some games under proton with d9vk may exhibit behaviour that may or may not be experienced using vanilla wine/wine-staging....
I'd read the github page but was unsure if I could simply follow the instructions there using the wineprefix created by Proton. Thanks a lot!
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Quoting: trawzAwesome! I was playing A Hat in Time through Proton, but the performance was quite bad. Switched to d9vk and it was incredibly fast, but I experienced some crashes. Seems those are fixed now!
hmm, strange, I have been playing HatInTime, and decided to try d9vk because there always has been some problems with textures etc.. well, level doesn't even load for me. I can hear level audio kicking in and then crash on some memory allocation error.. something about video memory.
removed d9vk and works again like before...
.b
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Massinissa May 30, 2019
Damned, there's improvement for League of Legends, but wine is still not updated on Solus, I still can't launch a game xD
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Quoting: GuestQuoting: x_wingQuoting: GuestQuoting: trawzAwesome! I was playing A Hat in Time through Proton, but the performance was quite bad. Switched to d9vk and it was incredibly fast, but I experienced some crashes. Seems those are fixed now!
Yes! I also once tried that game but with the same issue as you described. I need to check it out as well! :D
I wondering when Lutris will add D9VK support
There are some games that already have support. For example, Sims 4: https://lutris.net/games/the-sims-4/
That thing worked flawlessly on a Intel HD 520 (i3 6006u)... no clue how that is possible.
A quick look at the installer tells me that they just download the 0.11 release from github, extract it and copying it to the DXVK runners "~/.local/share/lutris/runtime/dxvk/d9vk-0.11/" and set the version to d9vk-0.11 like @KohlyKohl said before that it can already be done manually. So the installer takes care of it for you. :D
But I never knew that this was possible by the installer to achieve. And I already wrote a few Lutris installers :D
You learn always something new :D
The StarCraft II installer is a great example of how to achieve this with an installer in Lutris.
https://lutris.net/games/starcraft-ii/
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