Wine's Direct3D Vulkan Backend Is Seeing Some New Activity

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Phoronix: Wine's Direct3D Vulkan Backend Is Seeing Some New Activity

While there exists DXVK offering great Direct3D 9/10/11 support atop Vulkan that is used by Steam Play / Proton and others, Wine developers continue working on their Vulkan back-end to WineD3D as a similar Direct3D-over-Vulkan approach for pre-D3D12...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WineD3D-Vulkan-April-2020

[ix900]

Wake me when it works. zzzzz

[Xaero_Vincent]

What is Codeweavers plan for when Apple removes the deprecated OpenGL support in macOS? IIRC, vanilla wine doesn't even run in macOS 10.15 without using the special thunking build of Crossover.

Seems like their engineering resources would be better spent on fixing Mac support with an OpenGL and Direct3D to Metal translation layer, rather than reinventing the wheel that is DXVK.

[Lanz]

What is Codeweavers plan for when Apple removes the deprecated OpenGL support in macOS? IIRC, vanilla wine doesn't even run in macOS 10.15 without using the special thunking build of Crossover.

Seems like their engineering resources would be better spent on fixing Mac support with an OpenGL and Direct3D to Metal translation layer, rather than reinventing the wheel that is DXVK.

There's already MoltenVK to translate Vulkan into Metal for macOS. If everything can be translated to Vulkan, then it can just get run through MoltenVK.

[SpyroRyder]

What is Codeweavers plan for when Apple removes the deprecated OpenGL support in macOS? IIRC, vanilla wine doesn't even run in macOS 10.15 without using the special thunking build of Crossover.

Seems like their engineering resources would be better spent on fixing Mac support with an OpenGL and Direct3D to Metal translation layer, rather than reinventing the wheel that is DXVK.

Pretty sure they said they were going to write everything in Vulkan and use MoltenVK.

[eydee]

That's strange, Wine devs tend to reject everything that doesn't work on all platforms. Most phones don't have Vulkan, Macs don't have Vulkan. If this is allowed why Gallium9 wasn't?

[R41N3R]

I fail to see why they do this besides that they want to have their OWN implementation. Anyway, let's wait (many years) and see... I only remember how slow they did progress with D3D10/11 in their own WineD3D and that was the reason why I used Wine only in very very rare exceptions (like for tax software) :-(

[Etherman]

That's strange, Wine devs tend to reject everything that doesn't work on all platforms. Most phones don't have Vulkan, Macs don't have Vulkan. If this is allowed why Gallium9 wasn't?

Phones can't run x86 binaries, Gallium9 does not work on Nvidia and macs are stupid.

[Leopard]

That's strange, Wine devs tend to reject everything that doesn't work on all platforms. Most phones don't have Vulkan, Macs don't have Vulkan. If this is allowed why Gallium9 wasn't?

Android 7 and newer has VLK , Google even has a beta going on at Android 10 that wraps GLES stuff to VLK with their Angle wrapper, MoltenVK works on IOS and MacOS ( FFXIV Mac port , ESO Mac Port , Dota 2 MacOS port , Dota Underlords MacOS and IOS ports are running with MoltenVK ) , even some emus like Yuzu started to experiment with MoltenVK , Dolphin uses it for a long time.

https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolph...091330ed29de94

https://twitter.com/yuzuemu/status/1...485885441?s=19

So in a sense VLK runs on pretty much everything , hw that doesn't support VLK are pretty much is a waste of time when you think about the end result you will get with current GL wrapping offerings anyway.

[F.Ultra]

I fail to see why they do this besides that they want to have their OWN implementation. Anyway, let's wait (many years) and see... I only remember how slow they did progress with D3D10/11 in their own WineD3D and that was the reason why I used Wine only in very very rare exceptions (like for tax software) :-(

The creator of DXVK himself said that DXVK is not the correct path forward for Wine. DXVK was created to get great performance in games right now while WindeD3D is the long term solution for full support of DirectX for applications that need stuff that games usually do not use.