- updated to 1.10
## Performance improvements
- Reduced unnecessary worker thread synchronization around resource readbacks for both D3D11 and D3D9. This can significantly increase CPU-bound performance in games like **Assassin's Creed: Origins** and other titles built on the same engine, with smaller improvements seen in **Elex II**, **God of War**, **GTA IV** and others.
- When using [D3D11_MAP_WRITE](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/d3d11/ne-d3d11-d3d11_map) on a staging resource that's currently being read by the GPU, DXVK will now attempt to create a copy of that resource in order to avoid GPU synchronization. This improves performance in **Quantum Break** and potentially other games. This behaviour can be tweaked using the `d3d11.maxImplicitDiscardSize` option.
- Optimized [UpdateSubresource](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/d3d11/nf-d3d11-id3d11devicecontext-updatesubresource) for small constant buffer updates. This further improves performance in **God of War** and potentially other games.
- Improved the way resource uploads and staging buffers are handled in D3D11. This may reduce memory usage and CPU overhead in some - Added more information to the HUD that can be useful for troubleshooting performance issues: GPU synchronizations per frame, worker thread synchronizations per frame, and pipeline barrier count.
- GPU synchronization, when necessary, no longer uses busy-waiting, which may reduce power consumption on portable devices in some games.
## Bug fixes and Improvements
- Added a `D3D11On12CreateDevice` stub so applications using this don't immediately crash (PR #2278).
**Note** that supporting D3D11on12 is currently not viable.
- Version numbers for Intel's Windows driver should now be reported properly.
**Note** that using DXVK on this driver is highly discouraged and will likely not work.
- **ArmA 2**: Fixed texture-related issues (PR #2477).
- **Black Mesa**: Fixed
- **Resident Evil 0**, **5**, **6**, **Resident Evil: Revelations 2**: Improved performance (PR #2466).
- **Total War: Warhammer III**: Significantly improved GPU-bound performance on setups with a dedicated GPU.
## Per-game workarounds
Replaced the previous `d3d11.apitraceMode` option with `d3d11.cachedDynamicResources`, which provides a more granular way to specify resource types to allocate in cached system memory. Refer to the example `dxvk.conf` for details. This change was not made for the equivalent D3D9 option yet.
Normally, [D3D11_USAGE_DYNAMIC](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/d3d11/ne-d3d11-d3d11_usage) resources are expected to be write-only from the CPU and read-only from the GPU, but despite this, some games perform CPU-side reads on the mapped memory, which can cause severe performance degradation since those reads would have to go over PCI-E, or at least uncached write-combined memory. This is especially problematic on systems with Resizeable BAR and can cause issues even on Windows D3D11 drivers.
Games that will use this option by default include **Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition** (#2491), **Anno 1800**, **Final Fantasy XIV**, **Nier Replicant**, **The Evil Within** (PR #2522), and all games that previously had `d3d11.apitraceMode` enabled by default.
- updated to 1.9.4
Bug fixes and Improvements:
- Fixed an issue that would cause VRAM to not be utilized on RBAR-enabled Nvidia GPUs if the `dxvk.shrinkNvidiaHvvHeap`option is enabled (#2438).
- Enabled strict D3D9 float emulation by default on future versions of RADV. This may improve both accuracy and GPU-bound performance (PR #2448)..
- Improved memory allocation behaviour. This may reduce memory usage especially in games that create multiple processes or D3D devices.
- Removed obsolete options to disable OpenVR support.
- **God of War**: Enabled performance optimizations and DLSS support. *Note that these changes are already included in Proton Experimental.*
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/959619
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=29
- DLSS should now work in supported games in combination with [dxvk-nvapi](https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi).
- Optimized D3D9 shader constants by relying on `VK_EXT_robustness2` and removed the old app options for games using software vertex processing. (#2282)
- Added an option for more accurate emulation of D3D9 floating point behaviour and enabled that by default for a bunch of games. (#2294, #2359). This fixes issues in **Red Orchestra 2**, **Dark Souls 2** (original version), **Dog Fight 1942**, **Bayonetta**, **Rayman Origins**, **Guilty Gear Xrd** and **Richard Burns Rally**.
- Fixed a DXGI issue which would sometimes cause games to fail to enter fullscreen mode on some displays that do not support low rates across all resolutions (#2395).
- **Black Mesa**: Fixed a regression with shadows. (#2317)
- **Crysis 3 Remastered**: Worked around poor performance. (#2339)
- **Euro Truck Simulator**: Fixed a shading issue resulting in black geometry (#2312)
- **Injustice Gods Among Us**: Fixed missing characters on the character selection screen. (#2332)
- **Rocksmith 2014**: Fixed white screen on startup. (#2383)
- **Spliter Cell: Chaos Theory**: Fixed brightness with the shader model 3 option. (#2340)
- **Sim City 2013**: Fixed rendering.
- **The Guild 3**: Fixed artifacts in overview map.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=28
- Reduced overall CPU overhead in D3D9.
- Fixed various failures in wine's D3D9 tests.
- Fixed various issues when the `d3d9.evictManagedTexturesOnUnlock` option is enabled.
- Fixed various issues when the `d3d11.relaxedBarriers` option is enabled.
- **Call of Cthulhu**: Fixed reflection rendering (#2248)
- **Crysis 3**, **Homefront The Revolution**: Worked around poor performance (#2256) (#2241)
- **GODS**: Fixed gamma curve (#2250)
- **Total War Medieval 2**: Fixed black lines on the world map (#2258) and settings text (#2247)
The game still crashes when loading battles due to running out of address space.
- **Fantasy Grounds**: Fix incorrect rendering (#2251)
- **Need For Speed Heat**: Fixed ground textures rendering incorrectly (#1764).
- **Paranormal Files**: Fix black screen (#2192)
- **Pathfinder: Wrath of the Rightous**: Fixed GPU hang in loading screen.
Note that the game itself has further issues loading certain parts
of the game, which do not appear to be related to wine or DXVK in
any way.
- **Payday**: Fix flickering reflections (#2259)
- **Shin Megami Tensei 3**: Fixed hang when entering save room (#2161)
- **Sine Mora EX**: Added 60 FPS lock (#2261)
- updated to 1.9.1
- Fixed a number of performance and stability issues introduced with the D3D9 locking rewrite in 1.9 (#2142, #2149, #2150, #2164, #2168).
- Rewrote the way staging textures are handled in D3D11. This can reduce memory usage and the number of image copies necessary to move data between the CPU and GPU, and fixes severe performance issues in Roblox on Nvidia GPUs.
- Removed some workarounds for very old Mesa versions (19.0 and older).
- Reimplemented locking primitives based on Windows SRW locks. This may be more efficient compared to the winpthreads implementation in mingw builds.
- Earth Defense Force 5: Work around performance issues caused by the game frequently turning vertical synchronization on and off between frames (#2127)
- Far Cry 1: Spoof Nvidia GPU in order to enable higher-quality water rendering.
- Far Cry 5 and other Dunia Engine games: Fixed various issues due to uninitialized memory (PR #2137).
- GTA IV: Fixed broken app profile that would break the game on Nvidia GPUs.
- Risen 3: Fixed crash on Nvidia GPUs (#2154).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=27
## Features
- Implemented basic support for various subsampled YUV texture formats such as NV12, which is used for video playback in some games, as well as basic support for `ID3D11VideoProcessor` APIs
. This is needed for videos in **Nier Replicant** to play back (#2048), and may also be required for **Contra: Rogue Corps** (#1676). Note that Nier videos currently do not work with Proton
for other reasons.
- Implemented Conservative Rasterization for supported GPUs, which allows enabling the Nvidia ShadowLibs option in **Final Fantasy XV** and possibly similar options in other games.
- Reduced presentation latency by up to one frame under some circumstances. This may help with games that are limited by vertical synchronization, DXGI frame latency settings, or external frame limiters that operate on `vkAcquireNextImageKHR` (PR #2075).
- Added a frame rate limiter. This is mostly intended as a workaround for games that do not work correctly at high frame rates, but can also be controlled with an environment variable. Check the README for detais.
## Device selection
Software-only Vulkan implementations such as Lavapipe are no longer reported to the application as long as there is a Vulkan-capable GPU present on the system. This should fix issues where games try using Lavapipe over a proper driver on some setups with recent Mesa versions and then crash due to hitting an unsupported texture format.
Lavapipe can now be used with DXVK by manually setting the `VK_ICD_FILENAMES` environment variable. While some of DXVK's feature requirements have been lifted in order to allow it to run, note that limitations of this driver may still cause some games to crash or render incorrectly, while others (such as The Witcher 3) were tested successfully.
## Bug fixes and Improvements
- Improved texture and buffer uploads in D3D9.
- Fixed the Origin overlay not showing up when using DXVK's DXGI implementation (#1996).
- Disabled Wine Gecko/Mono installers showing up when using install script.
- Disabled a workaround to reduce the amount of random crashes on Nvidia drivers since the underlying driver issue was fixed in the 465.xx releases (#1963), which may improve performance in some games.
- Fixed precision issues in shaders that do not have the `refactoringAllowed` flag set.
- Fixed some potential issues around image clears that could lead to artifacting or broken rendering.
- Fixed an issue where games with upper-case file extensions may create duplicate logs or cache files (#2079).
- Fixed monitor layout issues when restoring display modes on multi-monitor setup (#2064).
- Fixed a bug in D3D9 where child windows did not have their positions converted relative to their parents (#1958).
- Removed workarounds specific to RADV with the LLVM shader compiler. Please use the ACO backend instead (default since Mesa 20.2).
- Removed `d3d11.enableRtOutputNanFixup` workaround, and enabled that behaviour by default for older RADV versions (prior to Mesa 20.3).
- Further reduced the size of state cache files. State caches from previous DXVK versions will be converted automatically.
- Debugging symbols now work in GDB with wine-reload (4kb file alignment)
- Misc. vector/matrix math fixes and optimizations in D3D9.
- **Atelier Mysterious Trilogy Deluxe Pack**, **Dal Segno** and **Nights of Azure**: Added the usual white screen workaround (#2035, #2022, #2044).
- **Days Gone**: Implemented missing DXGI frame statistics functions in order to fix very low frame rates (#2065).
- **Demon Stone**: Work around the game breaking at >60fps (#2103).
- **Dragon Quest Builder 2**: Fixed an issue where the game would immediately run out of system memory (PR #1995).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=22
## Bug fixes and Improvements
- Fixed a regression that would cause a number of D3D9 games to crash when changing the resolution or during startup.
- Improved performance in many D3D9 games when using MSAA on RADV.
- Improved presentation logic for MSAA swap chains, which are common in older D3D9 games.
- **Mafia II**: Work around shadows being broken when the game thinks it's running on an AMD GPU. (#1294)
- **Warhammer Online**: Work around the game trying to use unsupported image formats. (#1296)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=21
## Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Fixed some build system warnings with newer Meson versions.
- CPU-based Vulkan implementations such as Lavapipe will now always be enumerated last. This should avoid issues on systems without a dedicated GPU where games could potentially default to a CPU rasterizer.
- Optimized image layout transitions, which may improve performance on Intel GPUs in some games.
- D3D9: Improved performance of texture uploads and occlusion queries in some cases.
- D3D9: Fixed an issue where supported back buffer formats would be reported incorrectly.
- DXGI: Enabled multi-monitor support. This requires a relatively recent Wine version with XRandR 1.4 support to work correctly.
- D3D11: Fixed a number of reference counting issues that could potentially lead to stability issues (PR #1887, PR ##1888).
- D3D11: Improved correctness of NaN handling in shaders with `VK_KHR_shader_float_controls`, and removed most app workarounds setting `d3d11.enableRtOutputNanFixup`.
- Enabled `d3d11.enableRtOutputNanFixup` by default on older RADV versions.
- Enabled `d3d11.invariantPosition` option by default to fix common Z-fighting issues, especially on RDNA2 GPUs.
- **Atelier Ryza 2**: Added workaround for video playback breaking D3D11 rendering, like in other games of the series.
- **Battle Engine Aquila**: Fixed broken textures (PR #1759).
- **Dark Messiah of Might & Magic**: Work around out-of-memory issues on startup.
- **Everquest**: Work around performance issues.
- **F1 2018/2020**: Work around broken compute shaders causing artifacts on Mesa drivers, similar to F1 2019 (#1897).
- **Hitman 3**: Work around AMDAGS issues on AMD GPUs similar to Hitman 2 (PR #1909).
- **Nioh 2**: Work around black screen issues.
- **Tomb Raider Legend**: Work around performance issues (#1685).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=18
- Added an option to scale the HUD on high-DPI displays. Refer to the README for details. (#771)
- Changed generated D3D11 shader code to allow drivers to optimize away texture operations in case no texture is bound.
- Fixed some D3D9 games crashing on RADV due to invalid shader code.
- Fixed Vulkan validation errors when the HUD is active.
- Optimized away redundant render target clears in some games to potentially increase performance.
- Indirect draw batching can now work with arbitrary strides. This may slightly reduce the draw call count in Trine 4.
- **EverQuest 2** Fixed broken cloth rendering on Nvidia. (#1832)
- **Trine 4**: Fixed rendering issues that would occur on some Nvidia GPUs as well as on RADV. (#1816)
- disable stack-clash, as the PE mode of it is buggy. (bsc#1179804)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=16
- Added an option to scale the HUD on high-DPI displays. Refer to the README for details. (#771)
- Changed generated D3D11 shader code to allow drivers to optimize away texture operations in case no texture is bound.
- Fixed some D3D9 games crashing on RADV due to invalid shader code.
- Fixed Vulkan validation errors when the HUD is active.
- Optimized away redundant render target clears in some games to potentially increase performance.
- Indirect draw batching can now work with arbitrary strides. This may slightly reduce the draw call count in Trine 4.
- **EverQuest 2** Fixed broken cloth rendering on Nvidia. (#1832)
- **Trine 4**: Fixed rendering issues that would occur on some Nvidia GPUs as well as on RADV. (#1816)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=14
- Added support for new DXGI interfaces introduced in Windows 10 version 1809.
- Added an option to scale the HUD on high-DPI displays. Refer to the README for details. (#771)
- Changed generated D3D11 shader code to allow drivers to optimize away texture operations in case no texture is bound.
- Fixed some D3D9 games crashing on RADV due to invalid shader code.
- Fixed Vulkan validation errors when the HUD is active.
- Optimized away redundant render target clears in some games to potentially increase performance.
- Indirect draw batching can now work with arbitrary strides. This may slightly reduce the draw call count in Trine 4.
- **EverQuest 2** Fixed broken cloth rendering on Nvidia. (#1832)
- **Trine 4**: Fixed rendering issues that would occur on some Nvidia GPUs as well as on RADV. (#1816)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=13
- Fixed a major D3D9 regression that would cause crashes in many games.
- Fixed D3D9 crashes on AMDVLK due to invalid Vulkan API usage (#1742).
- Work around stack overflows in some 32-bit D3D9 games.
- Added workarounds for rendering issues on AMD drivers in some Unity Engine games.
- Work around Unicode support on Windows being garbage (PR #1761).
- Log file creation can now be disabled by setting `DXVK_LOG_PATH=none`, but logs will still be printed to stderr (#1743).
- **Age of Empires II HD**: Fixed video playback (#1726).
- **Baldur's Gate 3**: Fixed crash after character selection screen in D3D11 mode.
- **Final Fantasy XIV**: Improved stability on recent Nvidia drivers.
- **Just Cause 3**: Work around a game bug causing flickering terrain on RADV (#1553).
- **Marvel's Avengers**: Fixed spurious crashes due to invalid resource copies.
- **Need for Speed Heat**: Fixed some Vulkan validation errors.
- **PGA TOUR 2K21**: Fixed Vulkan validation errors and potential crashes.
- **Trails in the Sky SC**: Fixed fog rendering (#1771).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=9
- fixes and Improvements
- VK_EXT_4444_formats is now used on supported drivers to resolve potential issues with sampler border colors on Intel hardware.
- VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state is now used on supported drivers to implement out-of-bounds vertex buffer access behaviour correctly.
- Minor performance improvements.
- Implemented NV12 video format support for D3D9. This should make the GeForce Now app usable with DXVK.
- Implemented missing shader instruction for D3D9 to fix shadow rendering in a number of games.
- Anarchy Online: Fixed an out-of-memory error.
- Metro Exodus: Added missing DXGI entry points required to run the game.
- Observation: Work around a game bug causing rendering issues on RADV.
- Resident Evil 7: Disabled relaxedBarriers option again due to rendering issues.
- Serious Sam 2 and others: Fixed incorrect water reflections.
- SpellForce 2: Work around black water ripples.
- Timeshift: Fixed shadows
- TrackMania: Fixed water and other rendering issues.
- Work around performance issues in Darksiders: Warmastered Edition (#1719) and Monster Hunter World on AMD and recent Nvidia drivers.
- Work around Z-fighting issues in Borderlands 3, Halo, Halo CE, Mafia III: Definitive Edition, Terminator: Resistance.
- Compatibility notes
VK_EXT_transform_feedback is now a hard requirement for D3D10 and
D3D11. This extension is supported by all Nvidia and Mesa drivers
released in early 2019 or later, as well as recent AMDVLK releases
and the proprietary AMD driver.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Emulators:Wine/dxvk?expand=0&rev=2
