Left 4 Dead 2 Updated With Vulkan Rendering Via DXVK, Many Other Improvements

[willmore]

Same question here

Yes, similar changes are in the Windows version. Or at least that's what the changelog said when I looked it as the app updated yesterday.

[pracedru]

Hm, but why is DXVK involved here? I mean, on Linux it's currently running OpenGL, not DirectX. So the translation should be OpenGL -> Vulkan not DirectX -> Vulkan, what do I miss here?

The old version of the game on linux runs a DirectX -> OpenGL translation layer that Valve developed in house.
Now they are using a DirectX -> Vulkan translation layer that is developed not only by Valve.

So this means less code for Valve to maintain.

[Azpegath]

No comparison benchmarks?

[Guest]

If you look at the release announcement, there are a bunch of fixes including things like crash fixes on Linux. Or you know, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. The fact that they are updating it at all after more than a decade, let alone on a niche platform for gaming that wasn't even a choice when the game launched, is quite frankly phenomenal.

Yeah, they practically give it away at very low prices, like CDPR does for some of it's older games.

[Soul_keeper]

https://openbenchmarking.org/result/2106207-IB-L4D2VULKA83

OpenGL is about 3x faster than Vulkan for me.