d8vk
Direct3D 8 to Vulkan translation for DXVK! (by AlpyneDreams)
dxvk-native
D3D9/11 but it runs natively on Linux! (by Joshua-Ashton)
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| 8.4 | 3.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| zlib License | zlib License |
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d8vk
Posts with mentions or reviews of d8vk.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.
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Install D8VK to Lutris prefix, how?
You can find more information about D8VK and its installation here: [D8VK GitHub Repository](https://github.com/AlpyneDreams/d8vk)
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Direct3D 8 to Vulkan translator D8VK 'production-ready' 1.0 is out now
the release has a tabular comparison: https://github.com/AlpyneDreams/d8vk/releases/tag/d8vk-v1.0
If you manually installed a 3rd party d3d8 -> d3d9 translation layer, that would indeed be rendered using DXVK since DXVK implements d3d9. See the table at the bottom of the 1.0 release: https://github.com/AlpyneDreams/d8vk/releases/tag/d8vk-v1.0
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Early 2000s rally games were so good
Ps. d8vk came out today. Helps with some of these old DX8 games.
- D8vk Version 1.0
- D8VK Release v1.0 (Vulkan translation layer of Direct3D 8 for DXVK)
- D8VK Release v1.0 (Vulkan translation of Direct3D 8 for DXVK)
dxvk-native
Posts with mentions or reviews of dxvk-native.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-22.
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Left 4 Dead 2 has been updated to DXVK 2.0
DXVK 2.0 has upstreamed the dxvk-native code, meaning the game runs using native Linux libraries but uses DX11 with DXVK. This is mostly done because the ancient OpenGL linux-native renderer was rather bad.
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Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 issue
what works best is games supporting dxvk-native: https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/dxvk-native
- Some games play so well with Proton that it offends me they don't release a native build
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Clip Control on the Apple GPU
There is DXVK native which doesn't require wine.
https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/dxvk-native
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DirectX is the reason we still need wine and proton?
There are also Dxvk native for porting game to Linux. Which is used by valve to port it's game to Linux.(replacing togl)
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Very High VAR spikes on CSGO
I disagree, but I get the frustration. It's just that I've been playing CS:GO for almost a decade, and while I think the game is neglected by Valve in general, it's way a worse scenario on Linux. For instance, Vulkan support (via dxvk-native) was added back in December last year, and it's not been updated ever since, so you get way worse stuttering when compared to OpenGL (which is actually a DirectX 9 to OpenGL translation layer, called toGL, which has its own set of bugs and issues); Plus, you can't change screen resolution when using Vulkan. I get some occasional little stutters on Windows as well, but the whole CS:GO experience is honestly just way worse on Linux, unfortunately.
- What API or program would you like to see re-implemented on top of another platform?
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OpenBSD Gaming Updates Q2 2022
DXVK-Native and the game Perimeter. Perimeter is the one game I know of that's opensource and that uses DXVK-Native. I got it to run, but there was no support for any audio, making this pretty unexciting. This is still being worked on upstream, so maybe a DXVK-native port later and a port of perimeter will happen then...
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Is Proton now the all cure to PC Gaming On Linux or we not 99% there yet?
You never mentioned that requirement, but here you go: https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/dxvk-native
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which should I click?
DirectX isn't an option on linux/mac anyway, it's just launch or safe mode. (Note to any SCS developers if they're lurking around here... please implement the DX pipeline into the linux build so we can use DXVK-Native, it's much faster than OGL!)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing d8vk and dxvk-native you can also consider the following projects:
dxwrapper - Fixes compatibility issues with older games running on Windows 10/11 by wrapping DirectX dlls. Also allows loading custom libraries with the file extension .asi into game processes.
Dota-2-Vulkan - Tracker for issues specific to the Vulkan version of Dota 2 on Windows, Linux, and macOS
d3d8to9 - A D3D8 pseudo-driver which converts API calls and bytecode shaders to equivalent D3D9 ones.
steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications
renderdoc - RenderDoc is a stand-alone graphics debugging tool.
dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine
UnityPy - UnityPy is python module that makes it possible to extract/unpack and edit Unity assets
ToGL - Direct3D to OpenGL abstraction layer
OpenBSD-Games-Database - Database of games that run on OpenBSD
dxvk-caches - /OUTDATED for DXVK 2.0+/DXVK state caches to reduce stuttering!
ports - Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official cvs ports repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the ports@ mailing list.