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Whine no more, the bottle for Wine 4.0 RC3 has been popped open
21 December 2018 at 8:34 pm UTC Likes: 2

In this wine version only fix bugs as usual in release candidate phase



However can try dgvoodoo with nolf 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Mg6u289sQ

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Some thoughts on Linux gaming in 2018, an end of year review
19 December 2018 at 6:45 pm UTC

Thanks to ethan lee for FAudio

With lastest wine staging is interesting try FAudio for courtesy of Kron4ek reddit user



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaguTYa0S9E

Respect video have tested some titles using wine64 case:

Begins with tales of berseria this game dont sound correctly if use default wine pulse but with faudio pulse dont give troubles in tests

Followed by darksiders 3, show bad sound with default xaudio wine implementation (darksiders warmaster also affected) and dont possible recording with correct audio by this

And finish with ultimate marvel vs capcom 3, another title with missed sounds with default xaudio wine implementation

Him put avalaible Faudio build and seems him compiled with ffmpeg support, more about in this topic

Quotehttps://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gamin...ilds_for_wine/

This is some fragments cited by this user:

QuoteThe easiest way is to use "wine_setup_native" script from the archive. Just set WINEPREFIX variable to your Wine prefix path and then execute that script, like this:

export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" ./wine_setup_native
And if it's already usable, why didn't Wine upstream it yet?

It's quite usable, but there are some unimplemeted features. I suppose, that's why it's not in upstream yet.

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VK9, the project that aims to support Direct3D 9 over Vulkan has hit another milestone
17 December 2018 at 8:39 pm UTC

Quoting: johndoe86x
Quoting: jens
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI wish Valve support this...

This project can give Proton the proper retro compatibility/performance for heavy weight DX9 games.

Are there any heavy weight DX9 games?

There are a ton of them.

It was the de facto API before DX11, but the biggest one that comes to mind is the original Skyrim.
Quoting: wvstolzingAs already mentioned, loads of Triple AiAiAi (hat tip to Jim Sterling) games run on dx9, even those that came out after dx10 became available.

Assassin's Creed 1 has a dx10 mode and a dx9 fallback; but the next 3 games in the series are all dx9. GTA IV + its expansion packs are also dx9.

Yeah wine / proton actual dx9 implementation is very heavy specially with various unreal engine 3 games, need for speed hot pursuit 2010, skyrim vanilla and many others

















































































































Normally this games dont use more than 2 cores at max (in some rare cases use more cores but are few compared with regular dx9 titles)

For before reason ryzen dont work good with this type of games, for this reason have core i3 8350K 5.0ghz / 215 single thread cinebench r15

Without forget i put more attention on older titles than newer because older titles lack of tests compared newer games

Another thing high single thread cpu in this games give better fps min

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NVIDIA released the 415.22.01 Vulkan driver
15 December 2018 at 6:04 pm UTC Likes: 2



According nvidia json file show this:

{ "fileformat_version" : "1.0.0", "ICD": { "library_path": "NV_VK_ICD_", "api_version" : "1.1.95" } }

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Just when you think you can stop drinking, Wine 4.0 has another release candidate available
15 December 2018 at 5:10 pm UTC

Quoting: torbidoThere is a new option in staging tab called "Use ARB Shaders". What is that for?

Interesting sometime ago devs talks about that setting could be show improvements on nvidia cards

However seems more interesting if them add faudio to staging

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DXVK 0.94 is out with fixes and performance tweaks
15 December 2018 at 4:25 pm UTC Likes: 3

Works ok with lastest nvidia vulkan driver 415.22.01 in tests



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Just when you think you can stop drinking, Wine 4.0 has another release candidate available
14 December 2018 at 6:40 pm UTC Likes: 2

In this wine version only fix bugs, dont any new feature here

Dynasty Warriors 7 Xtreme Legends



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wchLuLJQIdI

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There's a brand new Steam Play Beta version out with FAudio, also a Steam Play whitelist update
13 December 2018 at 2:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: wvstolzing
Quoting: legluondunetWorks very well here in directx10 mode with DXVK. Are you using the last Proton beta? Are you using the correct Nvidia drivers? (or MESA if you own an AMD GPU, see requirements here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements)
First thing to do: uninstall and reinstall the game.

Latest proton beta & latest stable nvidia drivers (415.22). The dx10 executable launches, plays the intro video, then the screen goes blank on the intro menu screen (sounds still playing). All I can do is to kill -9 it.

In my case use 415.18.04 and vulkan stay on 1.1.92

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There's a brand new Steam Play Beta version out with FAudio, also a Steam Play whitelist update
12 December 2018 at 11:14 pm UTC

Quoting: wvstolzingI gave in to my curiosity, and downloaded the whole thing ... but AssCreed 1 still doesn't work. I wonder how the folks on youtube got it to work.

I use wine prefix as windows xp, no csmt, game dx10 binary will be renamed as dx9 binary and PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command% in launch options

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There's a brand new Steam Play Beta version out with FAudio, also a Steam Play whitelist update
12 December 2018 at 12:21 pm UTC

Quoting: wvstolzing
Quoting: mrdeathjrIn this proton version

Assasins Creed 1

...

SteamPlay DXVK With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=MuES02HzDDs

I think you need to edit the link to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuES02HzDDs

... so DXVK finally works on AC1? Out of the box? There are no updates on protondb just yet.
I also wonder if there's any improvement on the uplay drm'ed titles (AC1 has no uplay/drm).

Fixed

Thanks

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