D9VK for translating D3D9 to Vulkan for Wine has another new version out, 0.13f - "Hypnofrog"

By Liam Dawe - 15 July 2019 at 6:02 pm UTC

Developer Joshua Ashton is certainly keeping busy, with another brand new release of D9VK now available.

As a reminder: D9VK is based on DXVK. While DXVK focuses on translating D3D11 and D3D10 into Vulkan for use in Wine, D9VK focuses on D3D9. Eventually, they should hopefully merge into one awesome project.

Version 0.13f - "Hypnofrog" is coming in less than a week after the last release, yet still manages to sound interesting given that's not a lot of time. There's some "New General API Stuff", "New Fixed Function Support", "New Shader Support" and bug fixes for "D3D9" and "DXSO (Shader Fixes)".

Most of the changelog is highly technical language for those of you who understand graphics APIs. The main takeaway, as always, is that each new release should bring more compatibility with Windows games in Wine that use DirectX 9. Since D9VK uses Vulkan, it should perform better than vanilla Wine.

You can see the full list of changes on GitHub.

If you've been testing out D9VK, do let us know how you've been getting on in the comments. I love seeing all the progress with projects like this, very exciting stuff for those of us who just want to click play.

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Tags: Vulkan, Wine

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rustybroomhandle Jul 15, 2019

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Still slashing my way through Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen running on Glorious Eggroll's custom proton, with the latest D9VK manually installed on top of it as it was a version or so behind. Smooth smooth.

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ElectricPrism Jul 15, 2019

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Anyone playing this with Eldewrito yet?

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lqe5433 Jul 15, 2019

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I don't want these converting projects, just all Stadia games ported to Linux Desktop.

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TheSHEEEP Jul 15, 2019

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Someone has to do it...

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D34VA_ Jul 15, 2019

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Quoting: ElectricPrismAnyone playing this with Eldewrito yet?

It works. Even renders the custom UI and menus correctly. It's perfectly legible and I see no more obvious visual glitches.

EDIT: Some distant transparent geometry (sky terrain) may or may not render incorrectly. I never played on Windows, so I have no idea if this was already the case.

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gradyvuckovic Jul 15, 2019

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Fantastic work Josh! =D

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mrdeathjr Jul 16, 2019

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This is some titles running with d9vk:

GTA SA + Mods + Cleo

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Kingdoms of Amalur

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

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Age of Empires II HD

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Melty Blood Actress Again

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Magical Battle Festa

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Guerrilla Jul 17, 2019

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This is one of those projects that I'm very excited to try out but can't get it working on my own.

I hope it'll eventually become an easy-to use option with Lutris or something out-of-the-box with Steamplay.

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MayeulC Jul 17, 2019

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Quoting: ElectricPrismAnyone playing this with Eldewrito yet?

I just tried the "Halo online" install script from Lutris. Didn't work out of the box, so I drag and dropped those D9VK dlls into the folder, and everything now seems to be working fine :)

I'm eager to try the multiplayer, but I need some time first :)

Now someone cook us a splitscreen script! :D

This is on sway/wayland, btw.

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