DXVK [GitHub] is such an incredible project to bring Direct3D 11 support to Wine using Vulkan and another exciting release is now out.
Released around three hours ago, version 0.51 has these fixes:
- Fixed illegal query usage and resulting visual issues in Shadow Warrior 2
- Fixed bug in the shader compiler causing visual issues in Far Cry 5 and Hitman (2016)
- Fixed bug causing poor performance in Dark Souls 3, Dishonored 2 and other games using Deferred Contexts
- Fixed crash in Overwatch caused by incorrect code alignment (#362)
- Fixed incorrectly reported VRAM size for 32-bit applications
Additionally, a new interesting feature that made it in is "Asynchronous pipeline compilation", currently only supported by the most recent git revisions of the AMD RADV driver. The developer said this about it:
Makes uses of VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION_BIT in an attempt to reduce pipeline compilation stutter, and compiles an optimized version of the pipeline on separate threads.
It's disabled by default, as it seems it may cause issues in certain games.
I've still yet to try out DXVK, mainly as I only usually play native Linux games, very rarely ever touch Wine. Absolutely amazed by the progress with this project though, helping to bridge the gap for new Linux gamers and dual-booters to ease the transition to Linux.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: mao_dze_dunI still think they should some idiot proof way to install and keep this up to date. I'm on board with people on the Phoronix board who say this should absolutely be incorporated in wine. You cannot attract a bigger user base to Linux, unless you dumb things down.
I know installing DXVK seems like the simplest thing to a dedicated Linux user, but to the occasional tux casual like myself, it's too much of a hassle. Put it in wine, make DXVK on-off switch and just be done with it. Sadly, from what I understand, Wine developers will never do that.
Also, it would be nice to see performance go up to about 90% of native Windows. The gap is still too big.
That being said, it's nothing short of a miracle, what one developer has managed to achieve in half an year.
In Lutris you can now just click on a button to enable it. No installing of dlls. Pretty convenient.
Quoting: mao_dze_dunI still think they should some idiot proof way to install and keep this up to date. I'm on board with people on the Phoronix board who say this should absolutely be incorporated in wine. You cannot attract a bigger user base to Linux, unless you dumb things down.It's easy enough on Arch now that there's a binary package in the AUR, so it may well end up in other distros' repos at some point. (Has nobody done a PPA for Ubuntu yet?) It's really building it that's the complicated part. Once you have the DLLs, it's fairly plain sailing, certainly no more difficult than setting up multiple WINE prefixes.
I know installing DXVK seems like the simplest thing to a dedicated Linux user, but to the occasional tux casual like myself, it's too much of a hassle.
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