mesa-dist-win VS DXVK-macOS

Go to the website https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win/releases and download mesa3d-23.3.0-release-msvc.7z, or whatever the latest version is. Just make sure it’s the release version. I assume either the MinGW version or the MSVC version will work, but I’ve only tried the MSVC version (and it's a smaller download).

The thing is, I'm only a little more smart than most normies and the instructions provided in the website aren't clear enough for me, so I figured out I could use a precompiled version of Mesa3D (if it even exists) for Windows for convenience sake. In my searches, I have found two Github repositories of pre-built Mesa3D drivers but I don't know if they're safe. (https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win) (https://github.com/mmozeiko/build-mesa)

all you need to do is download and run this thing called the "Mesa Injector"

The default WDDM driver provided by Microsoft for that GPU is a stripped down version of Intel's reference drivers without the control panel applet and the OpenGL dlls. The older Windows 7 driver will not install on anything newer because it is hardcoded to expect NT version 6.x. There were some patches released about a decade ago to fix this but you're better off running Mesa3D which re-implements OpenGL 3.3 in software https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win

I've managed to run Windows game (Homeworld Remastered) that uses modern OpenGL (3.3) on Crossover using Mesa Zink (OpenGL implementation over Vulkan) build for Windows that you can find here: mesa-dist-win. So if you check Homeworld Remastered or any other modern OpenGL game status on Crossover you will notice that it doesn't work. The issue is that Crossover OpenGL support is limited to 2.1 even if macOS itself supports up to 4.1. I'm not sure why but that means no modern OpenGL Windows games for us. This is where Mesa Zink comes to shine. Zink is Mesa (open source OpenGL/Vulkan/etc. and drivers implementations that are used by Linux and some other operating systems) driver that implements OpenGL on top of Vulkan. There is no native Vulkan on macOS but there is MoltenVK. I was curious if MoltenVK is good enough to run Zink and some big game and turns out it is. Homeworld is working fine and performance is good. I didn't play whole campaign so I can't promise it will work without any issues but I tested it in tutorials and Player vs CPU mode and it seems to work fine with only two minor issues - game will crash if anti aliasing is enabled and there is some minor graphical glitches with invisible ships.

If it's OpenGL-based, have you tried Zink? It was originally meant for Wine/Linux environments, but it should be in there as a normal DLL. It will redirect OpenGL calls to its own Vulkan-based compatibility layer.

i do wonder if you can use https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win to solve your opengl errors, ive only ever tried it in a vm though

Just gonna leave this here.

instead of 46 & 460 with my Windows drivers. So I think there is still something preventing your system from working. I would recommend you submit an issue and see if pal1000 or someone else can help troubleshoot the issue: https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win/issues

Try this like the Hiacenty did but for win https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win/issues/63

I also downloaded https://github.com/Gcenx/DXVK-macOS/releases and put the contents of x64 directly into the game folder (not sure if this is also necessary)

And DXVK from https://github.com/Gcenx/DXVK-macOS/releases

I just wanted to jump in here and say that i've been playing DRG through Crossover for a few hours now, i have things to note; -Base 14" M1 Pro MBP -Windows 10 64 bit bottle -Used MoltenVK dylib from https://github.com/nastys/MoltenVK/releases ^ This is the important part, replace MoltenVK.dylib in "Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/lib64" (In the Crossover package) with the one above -Tried both original and modded async dll's from https://github.com/Gcenx/DXVK-macOS/releases Both dll kits performed similarly within 5% of eachother, so this step can be ignored in my case. Might help with higher end M1/M2 Max -While i only managed to average 55fps in the lobby, i ended up having a "stable" (minus the compiling of shaders stutters) 75fps+ in 1440p -Performance is only slightly affected by graphics quality/resolution, which leads me to believe that in my case, i'm bottlenecked by the CPU.

DXVK-macOS: install these libraries, then these.Game hungs a bit at start, but then works good for me. And UI icons are missed, so you should know what to press in menu.

For DXVK you’d really want to be using dxvk-macOS-async-1.10.3_for_crossover, that contains all expected dlls and can replace the ones shipped by CodeWeavers.

For the brave ones who are willing to get their hands a little dirty, I discovered some ways to both improve performance and get rid of the graphical issue with the ocean on Kerbin. To do so, you need to build the latest MoltenVK and grab the latest DXVK release and update the proper files in your Crossover installation. In addition, you need to copy the dxvk.conf file and place it in the same directory as KSP2_x64.exe. Set enableRefactoring, ignoreGraphicsBarriers, and enableAsync to True in this config file. My experience from these tweaks was a 20-25% increase in FPS.

Download latest release DXVK from here https://github.com/Gcenx/DXVK-macOS (dxvk-macOS-async-1.10.3_for_crossover)

You’d want to be using ether the version shipped with CrossOver or use the custom version I’m providing DXVK-macOS

According to DXVK-macOS, only DX10 (64-bit) and DX11 (64-bit) are supported so maybe WineD3D is required for D3D9?