dxvk
Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine (by marzent)
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. (by KhronosGroup)
| dxvk | MoltenVK | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 103 | |
| 110 | 4,548 | |
| - | 1.0% | |
| 0.0 | 9.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | about 8 hours ago | |
| C++ | Objective-C++ | |
| zlib License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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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
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 2023-10-10.
- MoltenVK is a layered implementation of Vulkan 1.2
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Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening, There Aren't Enough Players
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
Translating between rendering APIs is not really the problem. The GPU design is more different than the API is.
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Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library
Khronos maintains MoltenVk though, which is "official" as it gets: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
...technically, Vulkan on Windows is also only supported via 3rd-parties (the GPU vendors), Microsoft doesn't support Vulkan either ;)
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I love the ally, but fuck Windows
MoltenVK implements large parts of Vulkan on top of Metal for Apple systems. It isn't full Vulkan but it makes porting Vulkan games to OS X easier.
- Apple releases a Game Porting Tool, based on open-source platform Wine, which can translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming
- Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit is Wine
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CrossOver announces DirectX 12 support coming to macOS this summer
That's cool. Maybe I haven't thought enough about this. Let me check it out. FWIW it's this PR that you are referring to I think: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/pull/1815/
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Apple Begins Testing Speedy M3 Chips as It Pursues Mac Comeback
For Metal specifically, they could adopt and contribute to Vulkan and get access to a lot more software. Right now you need to use a compatibility layer, and surely Apple could just support both APIs natively with much lower overhead. But they don't, because it nudges developers to stick to the Apple ecosystem instead of being able to support multiple platforms.
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What do we miss to play DirectX 12 Games on Mac?
At the moment the most promising thing is MoltenVK (DX12 -> DXVK -> Vulkan -> MoltenVK -> Metal), but the development is not that quick mainly because there aren't tons of developer that works at the same time on the project. It's not actually a Metal related problem at the moment (they have a road map of things that they can be achieved with Metal 3 like Mesh shader and Geometry shader).
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Is there a good reason to not allow vulkan on macos as another option?
What you asked is already existed for at least 8 years. Yeah EIGHT years. It's called "MoltenVK". So far it's the only implementation of Vulkan for macOS. Basically it's a wrapper that runs on top of Metal API.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dxvk and MoltenVK you can also consider the following projects:
dxvk-async
DXVK-macOS - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D10 and D3D11 for macOS / Wine
wineskin - Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X
metal-cpp - Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++.
FF14-MAC_ModSupport - Alternative method of running FFXIV on Mac with Mod Support.
MoltenGL
nixos-configs - My NixOS and nix-darwin configs
winecx - Codeweavers modified wine version. This repository is just a mirror of https://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/source/
XIV-on-Mac - Wine Wrapper, Setup tool and launcher for FFXIV on mac
Vita3K - Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator