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For those of you with a graphics card capable of Ray Tracing who use the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer we have some good news coming for you. While it's still clearly an early work in progress, work towards getting Ray Tracing working in VKD3D-Proton is well underway (VKD3D-Proton is the Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan that's used with Proton).

Developer Hans-Kristian posted on Twitter about "Ray-tracing support in vkd3d-proton is finally starting to come together. Starting with some meme reflections." and shared two pictures showing the reflections working in Control but the performance drop is huge but it will hopefully be improved over time.

For those interested, Control is available in the current Humble Choice.

To go along with that, there's also the Draft proposal up on the official VKD3D-Proton GitHub titled "Enable RT tier 1.0" for those who do wish to jump in at the deep end and follow it along.

On top of that another update to Proton Experimental went out with an additional controller fix for Slay the Spire. That's on top of all the additional extras in this special Proton build where all the latest stuff goes in like support for the futex2 patches, Wine architectural work to reduce CPU overhead, improved video support and so on.

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CatKiller Mar 12, 2021
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Quoting: ShmerlDLSS is DOA being Nvidia only. AMD are working on cross GPU solution that will work everywhere. Once that is ready may be Wine can pick it up.

I think it's this: https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/vsr

I think you're right that AMD are working on some kind of upscaling thing, but that isn't it. That's rendering at higher resolutions and then scaling down - "get the clarity of 1080p and the framerate of 4K!" - rather than the other way round, which is what people want.
Shmerl Mar 12, 2021
Quoting: CatKillerI think you're right that AMD are working on some kind of upscaling thing, but that isn't it. That's rendering at higher resolutions and then scaling down - "get the clarity of 1080p and the framerate of 4K!" - rather than the other way round, which is what people want.

May it's using the same thing for a specific case ("virtual"). But what AMD call "super resolution" is the upscaling idea.

https://wccftech.com/amd-fidelityfx-super-resolution-launching-in-spring-to-tackle-nvidia-dlss/
Shmerl Mar 12, 2021
Quoting: Guesti really don't understand the excitement over dlss. yeah, it tries to be intelligent about how it reduces quality, but it still reduces quality.

I don't think it's something to be exited about either. If anything, Nvidia introduced this idea to have a longer time of arketed exclusive "hot features", because they lost the advantage of actually having better hardware already.


Last edited by Shmerl on 12 March 2021 at 9:40 pm UTC
Linuxwarper Mar 12, 2021
Quoting: ShmerlDLSS is DOA being Nvidia only. AMD are working on cross GPU solution that will work everywhere. Once that is ready may be Wine can pick it up.

I think it's this: https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/vsr
I don't think so. VSR is for lack of better description AMD's primitive resolution upscaling feature. This was a feature equivalent to Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution. I know this because prior to switching to Linux, in 2016, I tried out VSR.

The upscaling AI like AMD is working on will be part of Fidelity FX. And there is no reason to believe Linux will be supported the first year this feature is made available as DirectML is the sole AI implementation. The crossplatform option, whatever it is, will likely come later. I think Sony like always will go for their own implementation.
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