DXVK 2.4.1 Released With Many Improvements, More Robust Direct3D 8

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DXVK 2.4.1 Released With Many Improvements, More Robust Direct3D 8

It's been nearly three months since the last DXVK release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation built atop Vulkan for Steam Play (Proton) / Wine. That changed today with Philip Rebohle having just released DXVK 2.4.1...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-2.4.1-Released

[FireBurn]

Any idea if there's work on getting the older DX version supported directly via vulkan too?

[davidbepo]

Any idea if there's work on getting the older DX version supported directly via vulkan too?

wdym older, literally everything from this millennium is supported on DXVK(except D3D12 which is handled by VKD3D)

[davidbepo]

Very nice release, and there are cool changes coming right after it as well

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/4280

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/4293

[pinguinpc]

This dxvk version in my case run some newer games: memory usage and gpu usage remains similar


2.4




2.4.1




in other things can run other newer titles

[pinguinpc]

Very nice release, and there are cool changes coming right after it as well

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/4280

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/4293

This is interesting however doitsujin write this:

First part of a massive rework. Not going to merge this until after 2.4.1, and this needs a lot of testing anyway, especially on Nvidia and in more memory-constrained scenarios.

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/4280

And according dxvk actions: Rewrite memory allocator is merged after 2.4.1 like as doitsujin write

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/actions

rewrite memory allocator appear 1 hour after dxvk 2.4.1 release in actions

[pinguinpc]

huge work seems very active today in

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/commits/refs/heads/memory-rework-pt2/

Im very interested because doutsujin write this:

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/4293

Slightly higher memory usage again, but also 20% higher frame rate

sadly this appear in next dxvk release

[furtadopires]

Any idea if there's work on getting the older DX version supported directly via vulkan too?

I don't know about Vulkan, but if you have a ancient game that isn't covered by DXVK for some reason, you might check out dgVooDoo2

[ssokolow]

wdym older, literally everything from this millennium is supported on DXVK(except D3D12 which is handled by VKD3D)

I think they're referring to how the official Microsoft DirectX 8 was the threshold that broke stuff like the original Age of Empires (which wasn't "from this millennium") by screwing up 256-color DirectDraw palleting, and one of the fixes involves using a WineDDraw DLL on Windows instead.

(That and other stuff is why, when I'm too tired to fight with Wine, I just power on the HP thin client I upgraded the DoM in and turned into a tiny Windows 98SE PC. Even the Wyse thin client I turned into a tiny Windows XP machine pretending to be Windows 98SE doesn't handle that properly because XP shipped with DirectX 8.1.)

[davidbepo]

It doesn't seem so.

DVXK devs discarded the idea due to the amount of work it would require implementing and maintaining it... and it isn't a feature very requested, as there already are some wrappers (WineD3D, DGVoodoo2, DXGL). AlpyneDreams (the guy behind D8VK) studied the idea, but gave it up later for the same reason, too much work.

Maybe someone will one day start a DirectDraw/D3D7-to-Vulkan wrapper, but it won't happen soon, and it will probably be a independent project or fork from DVXK.




Not everything, there were some d3d7 games released in early 2000s, including some very iconic titles like The Sims, SimCity 4, Spider-Man (2001), Resident Evil 2 & 3, Tomb Raider 4 and 5...

i should have said all APIs from this millenium which is what i meant, fair enough