How to run Witcher 3 Next Gen 4.0 on Linux (or how Ray Tracing does not yet work)

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  • vkd3d-proton

    Fork of VKD3D. Development branches for Proton's Direct3D 12 implementation.

  • The good news is we are VERY close to getting it. If you have seen in the past 5+ years, we went from only supporting DX9, to getting DX10, then DX11 and now we got some support for DX12. We got a much better Proton version, a better support for dxvk, even vkd3d-proton, LatencyFleX and the amazing dxvk-nvapi so things are changing REALLY fast. We have also seen gaming performance much better in several scenarios when comparing them directly against Windows 11. At this speed, maybe 2023 or 2024 will be the Game on Linux year.

  • Proton

    Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

  • The good news is we are VERY close to getting it. If you have seen in the past 5+ years, we went from only supporting DX9, to getting DX10, then DX11 and now we got some support for DX12. We got a much better Proton version, a better support for dxvk, even vkd3d-proton, LatencyFleX and the amazing dxvk-nvapi so things are changing REALLY fast. We have also seen gaming performance much better in several scenarios when comparing them directly against Windows 11. At this speed, maybe 2023 or 2024 will be the Game on Linux year.

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  • dxvk

    Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine

  • The good news is we are VERY close to getting it. If you have seen in the past 5+ years, we went from only supporting DX9, to getting DX10, then DX11 and now we got some support for DX12. We got a much better Proton version, a better support for dxvk, even vkd3d-proton, LatencyFleX and the amazing dxvk-nvapi so things are changing REALLY fast. We have also seen gaming performance much better in several scenarios when comparing them directly against Windows 11. At this speed, maybe 2023 or 2024 will be the Game on Linux year.

  • LatencyFleX

    Vendor agnostic latency reduction middleware. An alternative to NVIDIA Reflex.

  • The good news is we are VERY close to getting it. If you have seen in the past 5+ years, we went from only supporting DX9, to getting DX10, then DX11 and now we got some support for DX12. We got a much better Proton version, a better support for dxvk, even vkd3d-proton, LatencyFleX and the amazing dxvk-nvapi so things are changing REALLY fast. We have also seen gaming performance much better in several scenarios when comparing them directly against Windows 11. At this speed, maybe 2023 or 2024 will be the Game on Linux year.

  • dxvk-nvapi

    Alternative NVAPI implementation on top of DXVK.

  • The good news is we are VERY close to getting it. If you have seen in the past 5+ years, we went from only supporting DX9, to getting DX10, then DX11 and now we got some support for DX12. We got a much better Proton version, a better support for dxvk, even vkd3d-proton, LatencyFleX and the amazing dxvk-nvapi so things are changing REALLY fast. We have also seen gaming performance much better in several scenarios when comparing them directly against Windows 11. At this speed, maybe 2023 or 2024 will be the Game on Linux year.

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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