Experimental Work Allows DXVK To Be Natively Used For Direct3D 11 On Linux

[salsadoom]

So.. DX11 is a native graphics api on Linux now (potentially?) lol this is a strange world we live in. But this is neat, I suppose.

[Britoid]

That PR seems to still need Wine to use DXVK unless I am mistaken.

Yeh. That PR compiles DXVK as a native .so so wine itself can load it natively rather than through its DLL loader. This work allows a native ELF Linux binary to call DirectX as a graphics API, which in turn directly goes through Vulkan rather than Wine Vulkan.

[geearf]

So, what is the difference between this and https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/926 ?

That PR seems to still need Wine to use DXVK unless I am mistaken.

[xxmitsu]

So, what is the difference between this and https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/926 ?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Experimental Work Allows DXVK To Be Natively Used For Direct3D 11 On Linux

The DXVK Direct3D 10/11 over Vulkan implementation to date has been built as a Windows library run under Wine along with the game/software being rendered for converting the calls to Vulkan for execution by the host drivers. There is now experimental work for building DXVK as a native Linux library for converting D3D10/D3D11 calls to Vulkan outside of Wine...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DXVK-Experimental-D3D11-Linux