d9vk VS FF13Fix

Use https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

It will be easier to understand if you show me an example of terminal commands under GNU/Linux. I tried to follow his instructions but I don't know one method is good

If you know the directory structure and where the versions of Proton live that Heroic uses, you can also go to the dxvk github page and select the 1.10.3 tar ball, download it and extract it, then manually move the appropriate files to their desired location in the Proton file structure. As with all things like this, .old is your friend if you stuff something up. And yes this does work, I compile my own vkd3d versions and use this approach as a lazy way to test them in Steam.

You can try dkvx Github dkvx , which is a mod that supposedly translates the DX11 stuff to Vulkan but I am not an IT guy so no clue how that works but as I said somewhere else on this thread it helped some people.

Worry not, if you want to play Windows games on Linux, you will use Wine, and Wine has codepaths for very old DirectX versions, it translates it to OpenGL. Alternatively if you really insist there is D8VK although it shouldn't be necessary. For DirectX games that use DirectX 9, 10, or 11 you are covered with DXVK which translates those APIs into Vulkan. And for DirectX 12 games you're back to Wine with WineD3D which will do translation to Vulkan. Technically WineD3D supports every DirectX version, but DirectX 9, 10, and 11 codepaths are half finished, buggy, and less performant, that's why DXVK exists.

You can give DXVK a try.

If you are going to download DXVK, you can download from GitHub.

No, it does not. Check the readme - https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk DX12 goes through this - https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton

The ports aren't perfect, but the only mod you really need is FFXIII Fix for XIII and XIII-2. Lightning Returns is fine from my memory.

I prefer using this on PC and Deck for smooth gameplay: https://github.com/rebtd7/FF13Fix/releases

If you apply FF13Fix you can make the game run pretty much perfectly at 60 FPS and nearly perfectly above 60 FPS (characters' lips desync in cutscenes unless you cap to 60).

The most important factor when it comes to getting a decent framerate on the PC version is your single core CPU performance. The GPU doesn't have a big influence. What that means for laptops goes beyond my understanding, but what I can do is recommend is the FF13 Fix. This is a fan made fix, that helps with framerate and some other minor bugs. It even allows you to exceed 60fps, but I would avoid that since the game can behave weirdly above 60.

I tried with FF13Fix but it still didn't fix the overall framerate. Oddly enough, when I tried it in Windows, it crashed all the time. With Linux / DXVK, a got a little better performance (after it compiles the shaders of course).