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DXVK [GitHub], the awesome project that has helped push Linux gaming further has a new release out and it sounds pretty huge.

Firstly, for Unreal Engine 4 titles (and several other unnamed games) DXVK 1.1 has "Queries" re-implemented which should allow for improved GPU utilization. The feature is widely used apparently, so it may help quite a number of games. DXVK also now comes with basic support for Predication based on the new query stuffs.

Another major difference is that DXVK 1.1 uses "in-memory compression for shader code", which should result in games with a large number of shaders seeing reduced memory utilization. However, it may increase shader compile times "slightly". Games noted to benefit include Overwatch, Quake Champions and Dishonored 2 seeing "several hundred Megabytes of RAM" savings.

Additional changes noted:

  • Includes all fixes from Version 1.0.2.
  • DXVK DLLs now include version information, which some games may rely upon (#980, PR #993)
  • Minor optimizations for multisample resolve operations, presentation, and other things.
  • Fixed various crashes when using the Windows version of RenderDoc inside wine (#877)
  • Dark Souls Remastered and Grim Dawn: Added workaround for rendering issues on Nvidia GPUs (#405, PR #896)
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: Improved overall performance by 5-10%.

See the full changelog here. It does note that for all the new features to be properly supported, you will need at least Wine 4.5 or Proton 4.2 and Nvidia 418.49.4 or Mesa 19.1-git drivers. If you don't have a driver that supports "VK_EXT_host_query_reset", certain games like Quake Champions may perform worse.

The progress DXVK has made is absolutely insane, great stuff that will continue to benefit Linux for a long time. Hopefully the next Steam Play update will pull this in after it's been thoroughly tested.

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Tags: Vulkan, Wine
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jens Apr 7, 2019
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Quoting: YoRHa-2B
Quoting: jensDoes anyone knows what the circumstances are for these GPU hangs? I mean does these hangs happen across the board or just with certain GPU's, driver versions, wine versions etc?
No idea (yet).

This release is a complete disaster anyway, many games seem to be broken at least on some hardware, and of course I can't reproduce any of it.

I removed the release. This is so frustrating.

Uh, that sounds weird.

For what it's worth, I had updated one prefix with DXVK 1.1 (while it was still there) and haven't experienced any issues either, though only run the benchmark in Arkham Knight. This was Fedora 29 with wine-staging (4.5) from official Fedora repositories with an GTX 1080 at 418.56.
1xok Apr 7, 2019
Quoting: YoRHa-2BThis release is a complete disaster anyway, many games seem to be broken at least on some hardware, and of course I can't reproduce any of it.

I removed the release. This is so frustrating.

Maybe a BETA branch for people who want to test? There are so many hardware combinations and games. And DXVK is now used by a lot of people.
Liam Dawe Apr 7, 2019
All the fun happens while I'm asleep eh? Article updated.
codecxbox Apr 7, 2019
I also had issues,but I changed to mesa-git, and so far its working as well as Vk 1.02, same thing..
arkhenius Apr 7, 2019
Quoting: 1xok
Quoting: YoRHa-2BThis release is a complete disaster anyway, many games seem to be broken at least on some hardware, and of course I can't reproduce any of it.

I removed the release. This is so frustrating.

Maybe a BETA branch for people who want to test? There are so many hardware combinations and games. And DXVK is now used by a lot of people.

I mean, people can already build the latest version from the source from GitHub and test it that way. Unless what you mean is testing out a complete release version before it is officially released (like some sort of a "release candidate")? It may be useful for a software with such a wide use I guess. But of course if and how to proceed with something like that would be Philip's decision :)

As it stands though, thanks for your hard work Philip! As I am sure you know much better than I - as you released much more successful and complex software than I - these things happen in development. I'm sure it will all get sorted out. Try to take a breather and look at it with a fresh mind, and no worries, we get you :)
jens Apr 7, 2019
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Quoting: 1xok
Quoting: YoRHa-2BThis release is a complete disaster anyway, many games seem to be broken at least on some hardware, and of course I can't reproduce any of it.

I removed the release. This is so frustrating.

Maybe a BETA branch for people who want to test? There are so many hardware combinations and games. And DXVK is now used by a lot of people.

Having a beta channel or something similar would be heavy overkill imho. The time for doing the administration that would come with it can be spend better at other aspects of that magnificent project. Building from source for testing before a release arrives isn't that hard (actually just very few commands if you use Docker, please ask me if you want to know more) if you have already figured out how to install it manually into a prefix. Please also note that the broader audience should probably stick with the version that comes with Proton.

Edit: Quoted the wrong post initially..


Last edited by jens on 7 April 2019 at 8:01 pm UTC
Shmerl Apr 7, 2019
Quoting: Avehicle7887Newer Wine versions can still be used and compiled without FAudio, the staging patches even reverted the FAudio commits.

You can, but I mean simply using WineHQ builds. They enable faudio now. Luckily, Debian maintainers just reviewed faudio submission, so it should enter unstable soon.
Shmerl Apr 10, 2019
Finally (there was some delay with submission): https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/faudio
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