Wine 3.4 Release Continues With Vulkan Upbringing, Some Wine-Staging Patches

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 3.4 Release Continues With Vulkan Upbringing, Some Wine-Staging Patches

The latest bi-weekly release of Wine is now available for running your favorite or necessary Windows programs/games on Linux and macOS...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-3.4-Released

[shmerl]

dxvk works with the Witcher 3.

[Sethox]

dxvk works with the Witcher 3.

As far as I understand it, the patches from Thursday (15 of May) made it possible to continue improve winevulkan (standalone-patches outside of mainline Wine), apparently (according to Phoronix own article) "including dxvk should now work" which I take it they tested their patches with DXVK as well.

I saw some footage from that Witcher 3 with DXVK, it was not that impressive but it was a step to the right direction and this seem to improve upon it (closer to be mainlined to Wine).

[pinguinpc]

In this wine version more work from roderick colenbrander has been approved

And sonic and all stars racing transformed improve

[shmerl]

I saw some footage from that Witcher 3 with DXVK, it was not that impressive but it was a step to the right direction and this seem to improve upon it (closer to be mainlined to Wine).

See for yourself.

Wine master, wined3d:



Wine master, dxvk (direct-image-mapping branch):



I.e. dxvk gives 40+fps instead of 15+fps of wined3d.

Setup: RX 480 4 GB, 1920x1200, Mesa master.

[aufkrawall]

shmerl Very impressive. How is frametime variance? I hope the HLSL -> SPIR-V conversion doesn't lead to nasty stuttering. However, without help of driver shader cache, Witcher 3 even has stuttering problems on Windows with DX11.

[shmerl]

shmerl Very impressive. How is frametime variance? I hope the HLSL -> SPIR-V conversion doesn't lead to nasty stuttering. However, without help of driver shader cache, Witcher 3 even has stuttering problems on Windows with DX11.

Yes, there is more stuttering with dxvk than with wined3d, caused by shaders compilation I assume. Some built in caching would surely help.

Except for stuttering problem, framerate is very good. I also noticed that setting CPU governor to performance from on demand can help increase the framerate.

[theriddick]

I think on Windows the witcher with a rx480 gets around 60fps at 1080p, could be wrong. (or about 45fps maxed it seems)

[Sethox]

I may not be impressed, but I am excited for the near future that is for sure.

[MartinPL]

stuttering go away with some time on DXVK , do IT van have catching