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NVIDIA has a new Vulkan beta driver, fixes for Hitman 2 with DXVK and Total War Warhammer II
19 Feb 2019 at 9:30 pm UTC Likes: 2



According nvidia json file:

{ "fileformat_version" : "1.0.0", "ICD": { "library_path": "NV_VK_ICD_", "api_version" : "1.1.99" } }

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Wine 4.2 is officially out with plenty of game fixes
18 Feb 2019 at 12:24 pm UTC

Quoting: 14Years ago, my daughter and I tried to play one of these cooperatively on Windows (it was probably Blacklist).

I bought two copies of the game. It was infuriating because the game had a networking bug that caused us to disconnect after playing for about 2 minutes.

Either the return policy didn't exist back then or I simply didn't know about it.

I was pissed. It's actually a large reason why I stopped buying Ubisoft games for PC.

It would be hilariously sad (insane laughter), if it worked over Wine now.
Curiously only test single player, multi player i dont have idea about work

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The first Steam Play update for this year is out with Proton 3.16-7 beta
16 Feb 2019 at 12:46 pm UTC

Quoting: jens
Quoting: mrdeathjr
Quoting: jensand please put all the screenshots in a spoiler tag, please remember the poor souls like me that sometimes use a mobile to check this site and then need to scroll themselves close to death ;)
But only a few 8 screens, however can put in spoiler some images not all

^_^
Why not all of them?
Because see nice and only left 4, reduced 50%

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The first Steam Play update for this year is out with Proton 3.16-7 beta
16 Feb 2019 at 12:28 pm UTC

Quoting: jensand please put all the screenshots in a spoiler tag, please remember the poor souls like me that sometimes use a mobile to check this site and then need to scroll themselves close to death ;)
But only a few 8 screens, however can put in spoiler some images not all

^_^

The first Steam Play update for this year is out with Proton 3.16-7 beta
16 Feb 2019 at 10:13 am UTC Likes: 11

This proton version update faudio and dxvk

This is some titles running with proton

Crysis



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVtxjwaiHwQ [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl2SVXkY1Iw [External Link]

And now using DXVK with Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFujhDWB25g [External Link]

The Gate of Firmament



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNNcL3xhOW8 [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im616KhZ6jU [External Link]

The King of Fighters XIV



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-q8raj8_l0 [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVLrusHbNoo [External Link]

Darksiders Warmastered

Spoiler, click me

Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCnRl-1uRmc [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUPyu3e0ArY [External Link]

And now using DXVK with Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VbJ0D0dFi8 [External Link]

Bioshock

Spoiler, click me

Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs4B3gvHXzA [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxQ08g8xiDI [External Link]

And now using DXVK with Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhxOvvvWUOo [External Link]

Lego The Hobbit



Last test with Pentium G3220 3.0ghz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCZm9hCvg3I [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2rNckYx-D4 [External Link]

The Game of Life

Spoiler, click me

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRVAx2qVlHw [External Link]

The Hamilton Adventure

Spoiler, click me

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlK0liEjxag [External Link]

^_^

Wine 4.2 is officially out with plenty of game fixes
16 Feb 2019 at 12:40 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Avehicle7887Loving those bug fixes and with the news that Codeweavers are hiring to improve game compatibility means business. I'm still hoping they'll tackle that Windows Media Foundation codecs at some point, which is proving quite the nightmare in some games.
Can add other infamous issues case:

-net framework (ethan lee saves us)
-virtual memory**
-xseed cinematics*
-mpeg cinematics*
-other cinematic formats*

*gstreamer can provide fix if very good coder can work on that: ethan lee saves us

**Very disturbing in many games, workaround is customize level of detail

However new user in wine git send very interesting patch (but dont be approved for now and this patch fall in julliard hands because have direct relation with ntdll)

https://source.winehq.org/patches/data/158612 [External Link]

This is some information about this patch:

Patch attached. This is my first contribution to wine, and I have checked through the wiki for what I should do, and have attempted to fulfill all criteria.

Before, Wine would (very incorrectly) use the argument to specify
how many *low-order* address bits should be 0, when in fact,
in Windows it's used to specify how many *high-order* address bits
should be zero!

The functionality is taken from the documentation for NtAllocateVirtualMemory:

The number of high-order address bits that must be zero in the base address
of the section view.

Used only when the operating system determines where
to allocate the region, as when BaseAddress is NULL.

Note that when ZeroBits is larger than 32, it becomes a bitmask.

and NtMapViewOfSection:

Specifies the number of high-order address bits that must be zero in the
base address of the section view.

The value of this parameter must be less than 21 and is used only if BaseAddress is NULL—in other words, when the caller allows the system to determine where to allocate the view.

and from documentation for LuaJIT's allocator:

/* Number of top bits of the lower 32 bits of an address that must be zero.

** Apparently 0 gives us full 64 bit addresses and 1 gives us the lower 2GB.

*/
\#define NTAVM_ZEROBITS 1

Thus the interpretation done here is:

If zero_bits is 0, use the full address space.

If zero_bits is over 20, err (12-bit pointers are the smallest allowed).

Otherwise only the lower (32-zero_bits) bits should be used.

A lot of internal Wine functionality unfortunately depends on the old
Wine behavior, but thankfully, all of the uses seem to be redundant,
as no function requested an alignment higher than the minimum!

It may however be that I have not fully understood the code,
as it is not always clear what alignment is requested.

In addition, to implement this odd Windows API, Wine somehow has to
mmap an address below the maximum, which is not possible efficiently
on POSIX systems compared to the Windows API.

Linux has the MAP_32BIT flag, but it restricts the address space to just 1 GiB, which is not enough.

For that reason, the implementation of this API in Wine
uses pseudorandom heuristics ripped from the LuaJIT project (which
also seems to be the only project to use this Windows API) to achieve
this.

It is not optimal, but it works.

A proper implementation would
require extensions to the mmap API.
^_^

Wine 4.2 is officially out with plenty of game fixes
15 Feb 2019 at 8:51 pm UTC Likes: 5

In this wine version fix a big quantity of bugs compared before wine versions

Also have various paul gofman patches, this fix some issues with some dx9 games

In splinter cell blacklist dxvk improve over dx9 with around 50 to 70% more fps depending scene but using around 80% of cores compared dx9 when use around 2 cores at max with some pikes in 3rd core

Splinter Cell Conviction



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMZCuwAdnI [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hlmxJ3_wI [External Link]

Splinter Cell Blacklist

DX9



DXVK



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCqvInqwpg4 [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSxEFAjtAQw [External Link]

And now using DXVK with Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SN7tq2JXVI [External Link]

Bloodrayne 2



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4y2abushLg [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdA0tDJtR14 [External Link]

Bloodrayne 1



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-YD97pUVpg [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yqUCpJS6SQ [External Link]

^_^

A new bottle has been opened with the release of Wine 4.1
5 Feb 2019 at 11:57 am UTC Likes: 3

In this wine version have various fixes case test drive unlimited 2 artifacts but in my case before this wine game runs actually crash at begins

NFSMW 2012



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD5MAEOI8O8 [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxzlpngiRfM [External Link]

And now using DXVK with Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + CoolerMaster Hyper T4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6EX0OpNqg [External Link]

Test Drive Unlimited 1 + Mods



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Y7mcH0Pb0 [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOar95_tgb4 [External Link]

Burnout Paradise



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GthP92jZrWI [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5gDYY1pRWA [External Link]

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2010



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJjzE27RCZY [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E8oEL6Qe3U [External Link]

Ninja Blade



Last test with Pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa31B-VF5pQ [External Link]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1H_g5FzX0o [External Link]

And some titles avalaible for test in 2019



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Zj71pHhC4 [External Link]

And with last staging rc series

V-Rally 4

Spoiler, click me

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ps-4msnxXw [External Link]

And some native emulator non wine related

Mame 0.206



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktwBaMIqYyc [External Link]

mGBA 0.70

Spoiler, click me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9DMIwxTOGU [External Link]

Spoiler, click me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xWIOpbZtzU [External Link]



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EIoDXdIjEY [External Link]

^_^

NVIDIA have put out a new Linux beta driver with support for 'G-SYNC Compatible monitors'
30 Jan 2019 at 9:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

According nvidia json file this driver come with:

{
"file_format_version" : "1.0.0",
"ICD": {
"library_path": "__NV_VK_ICD__",
"api_version" : "1.1.95"
}
}

^_^

Talking point: What are you playing this weekend?
26 Jan 2019 at 3:10 pm UTC Likes: 2

Testing some things case





^_^