MoltenVK
MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on iOS and macOS. (by The-Wineskin-Project)
dxvk
Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine (by marzent)
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| MoltenVK | dxvk | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 19 | |
| 125 | 106 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 9.0 | 0.0 | |
| 12 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Objective-C++ | C++ | |
| Apache License 2.0 | zlib License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
MoltenVK
Posts with mentions or reviews of MoltenVK.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.
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Game runs on wine but the graphics won't work
You could try replacing the wrappers libMoltenVK.dylib found in /Frameworks with the one I’d just uploaded https://github.com/The-Wineskin-Project/MoltenVK/releases/download/v1.2.3/macos-1.2.3-g5cbeaaa-UE4hack-zeroinit-dxvk.tar.xz
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Crab Champions (UE4 game) playing through Crossover
Here's the Roguelike third-person shooter Unreal Engine 4 game called Crab Champions that seems to be working thanks to the people who made the UE4 Moltenvk fix (https://github.com/The-Wineskin-Project/MoltenVK/releases).
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Astroneer is working using the latest libMoltenVK with the UE4 hack!
However, it looks like the latest libMoltenVK (macos-1.2.3-g7b9a415a-UE4hack-Wideline-zeroinit) (huge thanks to Gcenx and nastys/italomandara!) allows the game to work almost perfectly (at least in the few minutes I've been testing).
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KSP 2 on Mac OS and performance optimizations
There’s no need to build MoltenVK from source you can grab prebuilt archives from https://github.com/The-Wineskin-Project/MoltenVK
- Windows (Steam) Borderlands 3 on Mac via Crossover - Quick update
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Dishonored texture issue run through PortingKit on M1 Mac Air. Game runs fine but textures constantly glitching out as seen in the video. Anyone know how to fix?
If this game uses DXVK then try using the following build https://github.com/The-Wineskin-Project/MoltenVK/releases/download/v1.2.0/macos-1.2.0-pr1678-UE4hack-Wideline-zeroinit.tar.xz
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Cemu on Mac now gives playable BOTW (M1 Max 32GB)
You could instead grab an archive from my mirror https://github.com/The-Wineskin-Project/MoltenVK/releases
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Black ops 1 Almost perfect
https://github.com/Gcenx/MoltenVK/releases/tag/v1.1.7 apply these to your crossover and see how it works.
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on crossover
I was testing this version of MoltenVK (Macos_dxvk_patched-1.1.8.tarxz) (https://github.com/Gcenx/MoltenVK/releases/tag/v1.1.8) and I was able to able to get in the game. Before this the game was able to get to the Manu but would just black screen after starting.
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The forest on crossover
The same is true for MoltenVK don’t use the upstream releases/VulkanSDK, instead use https://github.com/Gcenx/MoltenVK
dxvk
Posts with mentions or reviews of dxvk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-08.
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Crossover22: The Witcher 3 stops running when intro videos are over and gameplay is supposed to begin
For those 6 dll-files I tried both dxvk 1.10.1 as well as 1.9.3
- Any news on DXVK? Especially with Parallels Desktop
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AOE2:DE on Macbook Pro
To make the stutter less bad I also had to install new dxvk files from here: https://github.com/marzent/dxvk/releases
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DXVK DLLs - Marzent versus Doitsujin?
Just a quick question. So I was just setting up Crossover and downloaded the newest DXVK DLLs. I noticed there's the Marzent version and the original Doitsujin one. What's the difference between these, and which should be used for Crossover?
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Trying to play hello neighbor on MacOS High Sierra
Grab DXVK from here: https://github.com/marzent/dxvk and replace the .dll files in system32 from the DXVK file in the x64 folder.
- The state of FFXIV on macOS
- Black ops 1 Almost perfect
- DXVK 1.10 for Mac
- Sifu on crossover
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The forest on crossover
That’s why you shouldn’t use upstream DXVK instead use https://github.com/marzent/dxvk
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MoltenVK and dxvk you can also consider the following projects:
dxvk-async
dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine
wineskin - Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X
WineskinServer - Wineskin
MoltenVK - MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on macOS, iOS and tvOS.
FF14-MAC_ModSupport - Alternative method of running FFXIV on Mac with Mod Support.
nixos-configs - My NixOS and nix-darwin configs
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
winecx - Codeweavers modified wine version. This repository is just a mirror of https://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/source/