how does it run on a nvidia card with their closed driver?

I don't have one now to test it.

@Ehvis: Developers suggested, it could be a Mesa issue. Using newest Mesa on my current frozen Debian is increasingly hard. Do you have a system with recent Mesa to test it?

I don't have any Mesa. I also don't have TW3.

@Ehvis: Developers suggested, it could be a Mesa issue. Using newest Mesa on my current frozen Debian is increasingly hard. Do you have a system with recent Mesa to test it?

I did some checking around. This video is from Wine 2.9 (not staging) and on Nvidia and also doesn't have water.

how does it run on a nvidia card with their closed driver?

Back when I tested the game with Wine-Staging (pre-2.9), the fps was horrible on a gtx 960, it was like 23fps. Haven't tested again since then.

Encouraged by Shmerl's successes, I tried this myself on a computer I have. This is a pretty weak machine (C2Q Q6600 + Geforce 550Ti on whatever proprietary driver is in Ubuntu 17.04 - 375 something, I think), but it runs things like Alien: Isolation surprisingly well. It's below W3's minimum Windows requirements, mind.

The game basically started without a hitch, after following the (again, Shmerl's) pointers on its WineHQ page. The main menu runs OK, at least. ;-) Only walked around the first room. I get maybe 5 fps, which is still higher than I thought it would be. Hair is missing, There's a black wall through the centre of the room and a horribly annoying huge ellipsis of something in the top right quarter of the screen.

Apart from the graphical bugs it seems fully playable. This is progress like I never expected. Good times. :-)

how does it run on a nvidia card with their closed driver?

Back when I tested the game with Wine-Staging (pre-2.9), the fps was horrible on a gtx 960, it was like 23fps. Haven't tested again since then.

23 fps is almost playable. My 5 fps is the one that's horrible.

I was playing around with the Gallium-Nine options recently and noticed I could only get it working on 32bit wine containers. When I made a 64bit container and ran a 64bit game it had lots of flickering textures and such.

Could be related to the DRI3 wine version also I was using? Anyway if I use POL and installed 2.9-staging 64bit container, enable CSMT and all is good. Shrug.

With the latest hack from Józef Kucia, a lot of issues are fixed (missing water, hair distortions, yellow distortions, minimap distortion and etc.).

Samples of how it looks now:





There are some minor missing textures in some cases, but overall it's hugely better. And I get 40fps on my RX480 on max settings (except Nvidia hairworks are off). I think it's close to getting being actually good playable experience.

I was playing around with the Gallium-Nine options recently and noticed I could only get it working on 32bit wine containers. When I made a 64bit container and ran a 64bit game it had lots of flickering textures and such.

Could be related to the DRI3 wine version also I was using? Anyway if I use POL and installed 2.9-staging 64bit container, enable CSMT and all is good. Shrug.

Gallium Nine is pointless for it anyway. TW3 is using DX11, not DX9.

With the latest hack from Józef Kucia, a lot of issues are fixed (missing water, hair distortions, yellow distortions, minimap distortion and etc.).

Interesting how a single not directly translatable opcode can cause so many issues. It does make me wonder if an actual solution will be hard because hacks generally don't make it into the mainline.

There are some DX9 games that need 64bit environment still. CSMT works decent enough anyway so I will stick with that.

It will be interesting to see how that DX9 over Vulkan project ends up whenever its done (I think its about half way there atm). If it does a good job with DX9 then it might be worth doing it for DX11.

I think Wine developers in general aren't fond of taking such implementation specific approaches. That's why they didn't merge Gallium Nine. They work with standard interfaces. So far their implementation of DX9 and DX11 over OpenGL has quite good performance. Switching it to Vulkan I guess is possible, but it's a huge amount of work. They are moving rather slow as it is. So I expect them to focus on improving performance of existing solution, rather than rewriting the whole thing.

If someone else can do it in some near future, then I suppose they can use it as well.

Gallium Nine does give me a boost in performance for 32bit games like Dragons Dogma for example. However for 64bit Risen3 it produces major artifacting and is unplayable for whatever reason.

PS. I generally benchmark my games to run at 4k as thats my native resolution, most the time I'm able to achieve 50+ fps with some tweaking.

With the latest hack from Józef Kucia, a lot of issues are fixed (missing water, hair distortions, yellow distortions, minimap distortion and etc.).

There are some minor missing textures in some cases, but overall it's hugely better. And I get 40fps on my RX480 on max settings (except Nvidia hairworks are off). I think it's close to getting being actually good playable experience.

Holy cow, to think as of a few months ago we could barely make it to the main menu and now it's almost fully working. Pretty amazing work :-)

Holy cow, to think as of a few months ago we could barely make it to the main menu and now it's almost fully working. Pretty amazing work :-)

Yeah it's awesome ! Great screenshots Shmerl. ;)
I'm now thinking about install the game and test it myself.

wine 2.9 + staging + sample_c_lz hack patch by Józef Kucia
work: hbao+, water, shadows, hair, and more.
View video on youtube.com

wine 2.9 + staging + sample_c_lz hack patch by Józef Kucia
work: hbao+, water, shadows, hair, and more.

Your framerate seems pretty low. Is the hardware in your video like in your profile info? It's a bit on the lower side for the game (the minimum req is GTX 660, so your card can be just a bit below it). And did you disable threaded dispatch? Also, you can use Wine 2.10, just apply a couple of staging patches which are needed for the game (and sample_c_lz patch).

Anyone with Nvidia blob, can you please check if you get such distortion in White Orchard inn (in the cutscene which takes place just before you arrive there). Note black lines sticking out of that character's face:


I wonder if it's Mesa specific, or general Wine issue.

nvidia blob, all min/off
Edit:
btw: i have this bug "The Witcher 3: dark surface distortion'

Anyone with Nvidia blob, can you please check if you get such distortion in White Orchard inn (in the cutscene which takes place just before you arrive there). Note black lines sticking out of that character's face:

Interesting. The exact same bug plagues the first Witcher game. It's not consistent there though. Is it always the same here?