DXVK Merges Direct3D 10 API Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DXVK Merges Direct3D 10 API Support

Separate from the "DXUP" initiative, the popular DXVK project for accelerating Direct3D 11 atop Vulkan now has support itself for Direct3D 10...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DXVK-Merges-Direct3D-10

[R41N3R]

Uh, this is such a fantastic news. Just yesterday I struggled with DXUP on top of DXVK, but I used it for the first time. I only got a black screen, but this could have been a xorg bug with Vulkan apps. Can't wait until DXVK 0.70 will be released. The progress of this project is just amazing!

[silly]

If you can't wait for 0.70 to come out, and don't want the hassle of the environment needed to build dxvk there is a neat docker image that will do it for you in a container, dxvk-docker on github.

[bpetty]

Why is this project so tightly coupled with Wine?

[sdack]

Why is this project so tightly coupled with Wine?

DXVK isn't coupled with WINE. It's independent of WINE and is a set of two Windows DLLs, which map DirectX11 calls onto Vulkan.

DXVK is only being associated with WINE because many WINE users use DXVK to run their DirectX11 games under Linux.

WINE itself implements DirectX11, but does it on top of OpenGL. WINE also implements Vulkan and because Vulkan is a more modern API than OpenGL is it possible for DXVK to be used with WINE where it maps DirectX11 onto Vulkan, thereby avoids WINE's DirectX11/OpenGL implementation, and allows games to perform better.

WINE developers are working on implementing DirectX12 and now use Vulkan instead of OpenGL for it. It's however still work in progress. DXVK fills the gap in the meantime.

[cRaZy-bisCuiT]

Why is this project so tightly coupled with Wine?

It's not! You can also use it under Windows e.g.

[uid313]

What about Direct3D 9 and 12 support?

[Tomin]

What about Direct3D 9 and 12 support?

One thing at a time. I'm guessing DXVK might get D3D9 support at some point but not now. It probably won't support DirectX12 but Wine has a project for supporting DirectX12 over Vulkan.

BTW, I would be funny if someone made an implementation of X11 and called it DirectX11.

[starshipeleven]

What about Direct3D 9 and 12 support?

What about Direct3D 8 and 13? The children! Someone think of the children!

[Tomin]

What about Direct3D 8 and 13? The children! Someone think of the children!

We should definately support Direct3D 13 before Microsoft. That would be something.