VKD3D-Proton 2.6 Released With Many Fixes, Shader Model 6.6 & Optimizations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VKD3D-Proton 2.6 Released With Many Fixes, Shader Model 6.6 & Optimizations

VKD3D-Proton 2.6 is out as the latest update to this project used by Steam Play / Proton for mapping the Direct3D 12 API atop Vulkan for accelerating Windows games on Linux...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VKD3D-Proton-2.6

[smirky]

Can we easily see the non-mainlined patches that Proton introduced on top of wine?
Would probably make sense to keep track of these, similar to wine-staging.

[Linuxxx]

• Workaround quirky API usage in Elden Ring. Removes many kinds of stutter and chug when traversing the scenery.

Should allow it to run better on Linux than Windows.

[davykrocket]

Elden Ring already runs better for me on linux than windows. Way less stutter and frame drops.

[kiffmet]

Linuxxx On Windows workarounds are used aswell, albeit on a driver level.