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kokoko3k Jan 23, 2019
Hy guys,
I'm still not playing this title because of performance issues on my system.
I've read that under windows it comes with a dx12 backend and i hope that when the wine translation layer from dx12 to vulkan will be usable, i could try it and see if i can squeeze some more fps.
I'd even try via steam play, but at the moment it doesn't even start.
I've read that it is "infected" from Denuvo protection, that's why i cannot start via wine/proton.
What am i asking is if is there another way of trying the non native version under linux.

Thanks!
Xpander Jan 23, 2019
i don't think denuvo is the issue here, i was able to launch it like ~5 months ago with DXVK+wine staging just fine and perf was a bit better than the native one, but it had some graphical glitches back then, i dont have it installed currently to test again, but probably the issue is somewhere else than denuvo. DXVK has improved since i tried it quite a bit so it should in theory perform much better now also. It's a huge download though and im not interested really playing it, so im not really willing to download this atm.
kokoko3k Jan 23, 2019
Thanks for answering.
Is there something special i can do to debug the issue?
Starting steam from command line and then launching the game does not print anything useful in the terminal.
Xpander Jan 23, 2019
PROTON_LOG=1 %command% into launch options should create a log file into your home folder to see
kokoko3k Jan 23, 2019
Thanks, i did it, but i can't see something useful, unfortunately:

/home/koko/steam-337000.log
https://pastebin.com/xUf8mkdP

/tmp/dumps/koko_stdout.txt
https://pastebin.com/h7gzs0EU

Also, it seems that i'm not alone, it worked in the past, but not anymore, weird:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/ah4d2u/good_news_everyone_steam_play_can_be_forced_for/eeek5c0/
2fastHunter Feb 3, 2019
Tactical dot with the same problem...
kokoko3k Nov 5, 2019
...and now this:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DXVK-Philip-More-For-VKD3D
QuoteHe made his intentions more clear today on the Wine developer list. Philip is currently aiming to get Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's D3D12 renderer working on VKD3D. For that to happen, there are some missing pieces to be addressed by VKD3D.
How is he testing it?

-EDIT-
Found it; it seems to work with wine, running it now via steam + wine + lutris.


Last edited by kokoko3k on 5 November 2019 at 1:03 pm UTC
kokoko3k Nov 5, 2019
Made some benchmarks:
GPU: gtx 1050 ti 4Gb
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz
WINE: Lutris-4.16 + Esync
DXVK: 1.4.4
nvidia drivers: 435.21
no vsync, no MSAA, FOV: 85, textures always set to HIGH

native     min  avg  max
--------------------------------------
low      : 30.8 42.1 54.7
medium   : 16.9 34.5 45.7
high     : 21.7 30.2 38.6
very high: 19.1 24.8 32.3
ultra    : 16.1 21.1 28

dxvk       min  avg  max
--------------------------------------
low      : 24.5 48.9 66.7
medium   : 21.5 39.3 49.5
high     : 27.6 33.9 43.3
very high: 20.5 26.9 34.5
ultra    : 17.6 22.8 29.9

dxvk/native    min  avg  max
--------------------------------------
low          : 0.79 1.16 1.21
medium       : 1.27 1.13 1.08
high         : 1.27 1.12 1.12
very high    : 1.07 1.08 1.06
ultra        : 1.09 1.08 1.06


Not much of improvement, i expected more, but better than nothing :-)

Last edited by kokoko3k on 5 November 2019 at 1:16 pm UTC
Ehvis Nov 5, 2019
One question. Does the native version render hair for you? For me I just see a shimmer on the background for where the hair is supposed to be.

Edit: That's hair for NPCs in game. Player and cutscenes are fine for me.

Last edited by Ehvis on 5 November 2019 at 1:35 pm UTC
kokoko3k Nov 5, 2019
I just ran the benchmark and hairs were there.
I cannot double check because i uninstalled the native version.
kokoko3k Nov 5, 2019
Damn, steam just got an update and it refuses to start now :)
-edit-
I've rolled back to v1.16 "beta" and had to use the skidrow 1.16 crack, yes. It works now.
Have had to replace just the .exe to make it work, it seems to just disable denuvo. Replacing the .dlls breaks steam savegames
I suspect it has something to do with denuvo and new steam, meh...

PS: Liam, it is fine to write such things here? (i own the game)


Last edited by kokoko3k on 27 December 2019 at 3:23 pm UTC
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