D9VK 0.20 Offers Performance Improvements, New Features For Direct3D 9 Over Vulkan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: D9VK 0.20 Offers Performance Improvements, New Features For Direct3D 9 Over Vulkan

Joshua Ashton has released D9VK 0.20 "Frog Cookie" as the newest version of this project mapping Direct3D 9 over Vulkan to help improve the Windows gaming on Linux experience...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=D9VK-0.20-Released

[Panda_Wrist]

EDIT: update the issue has now been fixed. So the next release whenever that happens, should work again. And now if i run into another problem with d{9,x}vk not working on haswell, I will post a proper bug report. So in the mean time the few haswell users here, build from master and things will be good now

...Original Post...

For Haswell users, this is a sad release as d9vk no longer works on it anymore.

Last Good commit: https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9v...ee44a4a62f4b2a

First Bad commit: https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9v...ef7f81f8e031dc

I of course haven't made a proper bug report on JoshuaAshton repo because I know how flakey Haswell Vulkan support is. At this time current dxvk master still works. So I'm guessing that bad commit might add a vulkan extension that is not supported by haswell.

Damn the "INTEL-MESA: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete" making me not feel good for posting a proper issue for it and also it being mentioned before that only broadwell and up is supported in a dxvk issue.

[pinguinpc]

This d9vk version fix various bugs case outrun 2006 water, fog implementation (fix rogue warrior), boiling point geometry and black issues, psi ops fonts and others

[FireBurn]

For Haswell users, this is a sad release as d9vk no longer works on it anymore.

Last Good commit: https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9v...ee44a4a62f4b2a

First Bad commit: https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9v...ef7f81f8e031dc

I of course haven't made a proper bug report on JoshuaAshton repo because I know how flakey Haswell Vulkan support is. At this time current dxvk master still works. So I'm guessing that bad commit might add a vulkan extension that is not supported by haswell.

Damn the "INTEL-MESA: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete" making me not feel good for posting a proper issue for it and also it being mentioned before that only broadwell and up is supported in a dxvk issue.

Try the Iris driver and nine, it'll probably be quicker than the vulkan wrapper anyway

[fahrenheit]

Try the Iris driver and nine, it'll probably be quicker than the vulkan wrapper anyway

Haswell is not supported by the Iris driver.

[s_j_newbury]

Maybe somebody could resurrect the old Intel i965 Gallium driver and attempt to merge/reuse the relevant improvements from Iris to support up to Broadwell? There must be a lot of new code that can be shared..? Not that I've looked though.

It won't help the IvyBridge/Haswell Vulkan support either :-(

[JoshuaAshton]

Hi, thanks for bisecting that Haswell issue

https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9vk/commit/b23a94155506bc7e704931f4db46bd94eebff55d

Should fix that -- although some games will forever be unsupported on Haswell due to the need for SWVP which I emulate with a geometry shader + buffer writes (which they don't support.)

[Panda_Wrist]

Hi, thanks for bisecting that Haswell issue

https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9vk/commit/b23a94155506bc7e704931f4db46bd94eebff55d

Should fix that -- although some games will forever be unsupported on Haswell due to the need for SWVP which I emulate with a geometry shader + buffer writes (which they don't support.)

Thanks you very much for the fix. I quickly built it and tried it on the game that I can currently playing and it loaded right up!!!

One question though, will it be possible to tell from the log if a game isn't working correctly because of this being disabled? either way i guess i could still check on my much weaker but supported by intel, boardwell laptop.

[theriddick]

Couldn't get this working with gothic-3-fgse when I tried the previous version (mostly black polygons and thats all). D9VK however does work with Risen3, shrug.

[JoshuaAshton]

> Couldn't get this working with gothic-3-fgse when I tried the previous version (mostly black polygons and thats all). D9VK however does work with Risen3, shrug.

Can you set ``d3d9.allowLockFlagReadonly = False`` in dxvk.conf