You can sign up to get a daily email of our articles, see the Mailing List page.
We do often include affiliate links to earn us some pennies. See more here.

DXVK [GitHub], the awesome Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation that's used in Wine and Steam Play's Proton has just put out version 0.90 after the latest release of the Vulkan API.

As mentioned in the weekend roundup (typical of this to happen just after…), the Vulkan API now has the VK_EXT_transform_feedback extension supported. This does require you to update your GPU drivers. To quote my own article since it's important and I don't want people to miss it:

NVIDIA have already pushed out 396.54.09 of their beta Vulkan driver to support it, along with AMD's RADV for Mesa getting a bunch of patches for it and Intel's ANV driver also getting patches.

The biggest addition in DXVK 0.90 is support for Stream Output, which fixes rendering issues in a lot of games when run in Wine with DXVK. Here's what the developer said:

Implemented Stream Output (#695#135). This fixes rendering issues in a lot of games, most notably missing characters or NPCs in Unity Engine-based games and The Witcher 3, Nvidia Hairworks in The Witcher 3 and Final Fantasy XV, as well as issues in Quake Champions, Overwatch, and other games.

As for bug fixes and improvements, here's what made it in:

  • Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Slight reduction of CPU overhead
  • Bioshock: Fixed race condition in D3D10 mode (#655)
  • Dark Souls 3: Fixed bug causing resolution changes not to be applied correctly
  • The Evil Within: Fixed regression causing random geometry to be rendered

Really amazing progress as always, can't wait to see this included in Steam Play seems like it's going to be quite a difference. It doesn't seem like there's much left for DXVK to do, although there's no doubt small performance improvements could still be made with enough time.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Tags: Vulkan, Wine
24 Likes
About the author -
author picture
I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. Find me on Mastodon.
See more from me
The comments on this article are closed.
38 comments
Page: «2/4»
  Go to:

YoRHa-2B Oct 13, 2018
Witcher 3 should work fine now.
elmapul Oct 13, 2018
"Most notably missing characters or NPCs in Unity Engine-based games and The Witcher 3"
so, looks like some people were playing witcher 3 missing content (npc) without even realizing it supose to be there...
https://spcr.netlify.com/app/292030

"Nvidia Hairworks in The Witcher 3 and Final Fantasy XV,"
so, hair works is finally working?
edmondo Oct 13, 2018
Yes, Hairworks in The Witcher 3 is working.
jens Oct 13, 2018
  • Supporter
Avehicle7887 Oct 13, 2018
Quoting: elmapul"Nvidia Hairworks in The Witcher 3 and Final Fantasy XV,"
so, hair works is finally working?

In Witcher 3 it surely works, looks rather nice I must say as well, except it killed my fps by 10-15 :p

I just spent over an hour in Vikings, Stream Output works like a charm :)


Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 13 October 2018 at 10:22 pm UTC
Shmerl Oct 14, 2018
Congrats to everyone involved! Time to play The Witcher 3 now. I wouldn't use hairworks in TW3 though, it's known to have hardware acceleration only on Nvidia, so save your CPU cycles for other things.


Last edited by Shmerl on 14 October 2018 at 1:11 am UTC
Shmerl Oct 14, 2018
To download Mesa patches:

#!/bin/bash

patches=(
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256575/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256578/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256579/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256576/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256577/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256585/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256582/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256581/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256583/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256580/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256586/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256587/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256584/raw/
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/256588/raw/
)

for patch in ${patches[@]}; do
    wget --content-disposition $patch
done


Hm, for some reason code tag here messes up whitespace.


Last edited by Shmerl on 14 October 2018 at 1:42 am UTC
Shmerl Oct 14, 2018
After building, result from vulkaninfo:

VK_EXT_transform_feedback           : extension revision  1


Last edited by Shmerl on 14 October 2018 at 2:00 am UTC
Shmerl Oct 14, 2018
Hm, it doesn't show up in the Wine run though. I guess something is still missing.
While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:

Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.

This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!

You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
The comments on this article are closed.