Wine's VKD3D 1.7 Implements More Direct3D 12 Functionality Atop Vulkan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine's VKD3D 1.7 Implements More Direct3D 12 Functionality Atop Vulkan

Not to be confused with Valve's downstream, VKD3D-Proton, that is used by Steam Play but Wine's VKD3D codebase itself is out today with a new version of this Direct3D 12 on Vulkan implementation...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-VKD3D-1.7

[eszlari]

Michael Why not link to Gitlab? https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d...ases/vkd3d-1.7

[Myownfriend]

I would have thought most of these functions were already supported. It makes me wonder what it actually supported before this update.

Definitely makes me excited to see how much this will fix.

[mbriar]

I would have thought most of these functions were already supported. It makes me wonder what it actually supported before this update.

Definitely makes me excited to see how much this will fix.

All of those functions are for the HLSL compiler part, and most games either only ship DXBC/DXIL bytecode, or bundle microsoft's HLSL compiler. Upstream vkd3d still won't run most d3d12 games - it has no support for shader model 6 yet - vkd3d-proton is years ahead in that regard.

[Myownfriend]

All of those functions are for the HLSL compiler part, and most games either only ship DXBC/DXIL bytecode, or bundle microsoft's HLSL compiler. Upstream vkd3d still won't run most d3d12 games - it has no support for shader model 6 yet - vkd3d-proton is years ahead in that regard.

Ah okay. That makes more sense.

[Monsterovich]

Gigachad proton vkd3d vs Virgin wine's vkd3d

[Weasel]

Yeah, wine devs are way too slow sometimes. It's not just features only, it's also performance. By the time they even get all features in order, alternatives have 5× more performance. And they usually don't even care that much even then, because "hacks are evil" (even for perf). DXVK has plenty of hacks though.

[Monsterovich]

Yeah, wine devs are way too slow sometimes. It's not just features only, it's also performance. By the time they even get all features in order, alternatives have 5× more performance. And they usually don't even care that much even then, because "hacks are evil" (even for perf). DXVK has plenty of hacks though.

Still no vulkan child window rendering.

Proton's wine has this feature.