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PayPalDeveloper Philip Rebohle today announced the release of DXVK 1.5.5, bringing with it plenty of bug fixes for this impressive Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer.
On the games side, quite a number had specific issues addressed with this release. You should find less issues running: Book of Demons, Close Combat, Cross Racing Championship, Dungeons and Dragons: Temple of Elemental Evil, Elite Dangerous, Evil Genius, F1 2019, Hyperdimension Neptunia U Action Unleashed, Just Cause 1, Lumino City, Saint's Row III / IV, Shade Wrath of Angels, Sins of a Solar Empire, Rocket League and Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines which should see improved performance.
Another tweak was done for Skyrim, this time fixing both crashes and incorrect rendering with the "d3d9.evictManagedOnUnlock" option, they say this is "useful for Skyrim with a large number of mods as an alternative to ENBoost".
There's also more D3D9 features implemented, Intel hardware sees better D3D9 compatibility and more bug fixes included.
You can find the release notes here. You can make using Wine+DXVK easier by trying out Lutris, like our livestreamer who enjoys a lot of Overwatch on Linux thanks to it.
If you wish to upgrade your existing Proton install without waiting for Valve/CodeWeavers to update, it's quite a simple process of overwriting the existing DXVK files with the release download of DXVK 1.5.5. You can find your Proton install somewhere like this:
path-to-your/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Proton x.x/dist
Where x.x is whatever Proton version installed you wish to give a new DXVK.
Inside there you will see "lib" and "lib64", for 32bit and 64bit. Inside each of those, there's a "wine" folder and inside there is a "dxvk" folder and that's where you replace the files with new versions. Do so at your own risk but it's usually harmless. If you mess anything up, to refresh it you can usually just re-install Proton from the Tools menu in Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: The_Aquabator you could simply use protontricks first search for the game by the name for example like thisWhy would you do that though? Not only do you have to do it for every single game you want to use it on, it also changes the wine prefix which means that you're pretty much guaranteed to forget about it and will be using that one DXVK version forever.
Please don't, this just leads to unnecessary problems that are very hard to diagnose.
International Snooker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYFbKeZ5goU
Carnage Racing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC_ne45Zwmw
Afterfall Insanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ItLpYv41o
LOTR War in North
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbHaHj6r3Dc
Touhou Scarlet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrSHleiTNKE
The Game of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb_2obEhW00
I am Setsuna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPXxIuxW4oY
Arcana Heart 3 Love Max
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVvZmWTEInk
Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx_gX_qq1_4
Sega Rally Revo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S2ITujocKU
TMNT Out of Shadows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdpq1AK4tLE
Iron Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiOmd3VKA_0
Explodemon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw-RzE2tLBQ
Deal or no Deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz-8ikN0ops
Resident Evil 0 HD Remastered (Unstable)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHR3DEcxdas
The Suffering 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGXgPBDggM
The Suffering 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soePw-Z06xQ
Shade Wrath of Angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT1_QV4tfcI
Midnight Club II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMFIBaFL3ao
L.A Rush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCqr9ikEDYU
Army Men Sarge War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlVTMqRavmY
Young Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7T6-wrnOeg
Criminal Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bw2hSdj64A
Demon Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnAhPmxs6D4
Harry Potter 7 Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-PNFAO43rc
Harry Potter 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jibJU5FXk0M
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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 29 February 2020 at 8:12 pm UTC
furaxhornyx Mar 1, 2020
Quoting: mrdeathjrOn dx9 side this dxvk runs more dx9 titles (fix war in north issue, some arc system games issue, mouse issue on warhammer 40000 space marines, trackmania united forever shader 3.0 issue, game of life and others) case:
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Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend
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Sorry in advance for being a noob with all this stuff, but does this means that Blazblue will be playable on Proton, when the DXVK update will be included in the official Proton release ? That sounds great, because currently it is "unplayable" on protonDB.
(I am not confident enough yet with Linux to try the manual DXVK installation :S: )
As for not being confident enough - as Liam notes, just download Lutris! Install Blazblue using the SteamWine option and in the runner options, you should have dxvk 1.5.5 as the "latest" option by default. I've never downloaded dxvk in my life - I either use Lutris, Proton, or ProtonGE (Glorious Eggroll). So much easier.
I think you might still need to enable d9vk though? So in the Steam launch parameters, you add
PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 %command%I can't remember if that's still needed though. Glorious Eggroll's version of Proton enabled it by default some months ago, so it's a bit confusing to be honest.
Last edited by scaine on 1 March 2020 at 9:58 am UTC
Quoting: scaineI think you might still need to enable d9vk though? So in the Steam launch parameters, you add PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 %command%With Proton 5.0 you don't need that anymore, see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog#50-1
Quoting: furaxhornyxSorry in advance for being a noob with all this stuff, but does this means that Blazblue will be playable on Proton, when the DXVK update will be included in the official Proton release ? That sounds great, because currently it is "unplayable" on protonDB.
(I am not confident enough yet with Linux to try the manual DXVK installation :S: )
In my case dont use proton because dont support wmv related files correctly
I use wine 32bit only (compiled by myself) for most dx9 32bit games, in this prefix have installed various wmf redistributables and wmp10
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furaxhornyx Mar 1, 2020
Quoting: scaineAs for not being confident enough - as Liam notes, just download Lutris! Install Blazblue using the SteamWine option and in the runner options, you should have dxvk 1.5.5 as the "latest" option by default. I've never downloaded dxvk in my life - I either use Lutris, Proton, or ProtonGE (Glorious Eggroll). So much easier.
I'll have another try with Lutris, but each time I tried to install something with it, I ended up using PlayOnLinux instead. Much easier, and the few games I tried worked perfectly on the first try. With Lutris, I could only end up with the setup.exe being launched again each time I wanted to launch the game...
In any case, thanks all for your advices, I will try tweaking things around
Plintslîcho Mar 1, 2020
I had some major stuttering in Dishonored 2 before.
Quoting: PlintslîchoI'm not sure whether it is due to the latest wine version (5.3) or the new dxvk, but both, Dishonored 2 and Wolfenstein The new Order (both from gog.com), run beautifully now.
I had some major stuttering in Dishonored 2 before.
Wolfenstein The new Order uses OpenGL, so no DXVK is used here. Maybe fixes in Wine itself or an update in your drivers did the trick.
Plintslîcho Mar 2, 2020
Should've posted it over in the wine news.
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