I'm going to try that freeze case with dxvk / radv now.

Actually, with old buffer pool hack I was getting close to 40 fps on average (1920x1200, RX 480). With dxvk I'm getting around 30 fps. So there is room for improving performance still.

Rotfiends look like this:

The vegetation looks good during the rain at night, which is an improvement over OpenGL! (see bug #43816.

Quoting: ShmerlRotfiends look like this:

"Hello spikes my old friend."

No freezes with rotfiends, but they aren't rendering properly either yet.

Well, if you're GPU-bound, RadeonSI will probably deliver better results, but when running the game on a Phenom II... well, yeah:
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The Rotfiends seem to require stream output to render properly, which sadly is going to be a massive pain to implement because Vulkan doesn't support anything of the sort natively.

Quoting: YoRHa-2BWell, if you're GPU-bound, RadeonSI will probably deliver better results

Current Wine master is a far cry from old buffer pool hack. GPU is very underutilized, and I'm getting 15-20 fps tops. So dxvk is an improvement, but I thought its design should allow to saturate the GPU to 100%, so I expect it shouldn't be worse than old 40 fps result on radeonsi. Unfortunately without something like GALLIUM_HUD for Vulkan, it's not easy to measure GPU utilization.

I might look into implementing that actually, if Mesa developers have no plans to do it in the near future.

Quoting: YoRHa-2BWell, if you're GPU-bound, RadeonSI will probably deliver better results, but when running the game on a Phenom II... well, yeah:

What is your processor frequency? Do you mean that stronger CPU helps here? I'm using Ryzen 7 1700X which should be quite decent.

My resolution is a bit higher (1920x1200) and I set all settings to max, except hairworks are off.

Quoting: ShmerlUnfortunately without something like GALLIUM_HUD for Vulkan, it's not easy to measure GPU utilization.

Try radeontop.

If it runs into a hard CPU limit, that would indeed be embarassing, but when approaching GPU limits, DXVK will always be slower, one reason is that RADV simply hasn't caught up yet, and another is that OpenGL drivers have an easier time placing efficient execution/memory barriers than DXVK. That's the tradeoff.

QuoteWhat is your processor frequency? Do you mean that stronger CPU helps here?

I'm getting like 20-30% GPU utilization in Novigrad, Beauclair etc. when using wined3d, so yeah, definitely CPU bound. Even DXVK is still CPU bound on this machine, getting between 70% and 80% GPU load most of the time. Constant 60 FPS on Windows.

CPU runs at 3.7 GHz with heavily overclocked IMC, but it's no match for anything modern, your Ryzen is probably at least twice as fast.