D9VK Forming As Direct3D 9 Over Vulkan Based On DXVK

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Phoronix: D9VK Forming As Direct3D 9 Over Vulkan Based On DXVK

Joshua Ashton, the developer working for CodeWeavers who had been working on "DXUP" as a Direct3D 9/10 to D3D11 translation layer so that the output could be fed to DXVK for running on Vulkan is now developing the "D9VK" project...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=D9VK-D3D9-Vulkan-From-DXVK

[Leopard]

Noice

[JoshuaAshton]

Hi!

I'd like to stress this is not a CodeWeavers project or related to them in any way.

This is a me project.

Cheers!
- Josh 🐸

[Maslou]

DXUP works, and I thank the developer. But I use Gallium Nine for DX9, and it has high performance and smoothness.
Moreover, performance is better than native Windows. Perhaps for Nvidia users, this will be an excellent lifeline. I really would like the G9 to work on Nvidia, because I have several mashines with 600 \ 700 line.

[cybertraveler]

It's unclear if this is intended as a temporary fork or if ultimately the plan will be to try to merge back with DXVK, assuming upstream is interested.

It would be awesome if DXVK natively handled DX 9 as well as DX 10 & 11.

JoshuaAshton - is this your long-term plan?

[JoshuaAshton]

DXUP works, and I thank the developer. But I use Gallium Nine for DX9, and it has high performance and smoothness.
Moreover, performance is better than native Windows. Perhaps for Nvidia users, this will be an excellent lifeline. I really would like the G9 to work on Nvidia, because I have several mashines with 600 \ 700 line.

Yes, DXUP has no CSMT and has very expensive state lookups

D9VK will be much more efficient with this and have CSMT.

[Venemo]

Yes, the world needs another DX9 compatibility layer, we don't have enough of them yet.

[JoshuaAshton]

Yes, the world needs another DX9 compatibility layer, we don't have enough of them yet.

It's my time, I'll do what I want with it, making something I want to make.

[emblemparade]

Yes, the world needs another DX9 compatibility layer, we don't have enough of them yet.

What the world doesn't need is advice from "helpful" people like you. Thank you for your taking time out of your busy day to share your wisdom with us! /s

[schmidtbag]

Yes, the world needs another DX9 compatibility layer, we don't have enough of them yet.

Typically, that's the kind of thing I would say, because I'm usually against skilled developers focusing on unnecessary redundancy. But this project is definitely different. If this work could be merged into DXVK, that could potentially obsolete all other projects. It would be so much more user-friendly to only need 1 library, and who knows, maybe it could be merged into Wine and then they can strip out their old translation layer (though, I'm not keeping my hopes up for that). I think it'd be great for DXVK to be an "all-in-one" DirectX translation layer, ideal for newer PCs with newer capabilities.

Then, we have stuff like Gallium9, which is good for old or low-end PCs that aren't Vulkan compatible.

So, Ashton, keep up the work. I'm excited to see more.