DXVK 1.9.1 comes with bug fixes, performance improvements and more

Few days ago the release of the new version of DXVK 1.9.1 was announced in which some fixes have been made errors and the elimination of code related to previous versions of Mesa, among other things.

For those who still do not know about DXVK, they should know what it is one of the tools included in the Steam Play function from Steam. It is a fantastic tool thate can convert Microsoft DirectX 11 and DirectX 10 graphics calls to Vulkan, the open source graphics API that is compatible with Linux. To use DXVK, in addition to Wine and Vulkan, you obviously need a Vulkan-compatible GPU.

While DXVK is still primarily used on Steam Play, it is not the only place Linux users can take advantage of this fantastic technology. It also contributes the Vulkan-based D3D11 implementation for Linux and Wine, Regarding performance and optimization when running Direct3D 11 games on Wine, as they also provide support for Direct3D9.

Main new features of DXVK 1.9.1

In this new version of the implementation the developers have fixed various performance and stability issues after reworking of the D3D9 locking mechanism, in addition to that the handling of the texture of stages in D3D11 was modified, which resulted in less memory consumption and fewer image copies required to move data between the CPU and GPU.

Furthermore, the lock primitives have been redesigned based on Windows SRW locks, which are more efficient than the mingw implementation of winpthreads, plus workaround code for older versions of Mesa was removed (<= 19.0 ).

As for issues that have been resolved with some titles of video games, the following is mentioned:

• Earth Defense Force 5- Fixed performance issues caused by the game frequently turning vertical sync between frames on and off.
• Farcry 1: Nvidia GPU is faked to allow for higher quality water rendering.
• Far Cry 5 and other Dunia Engine games: fixed various issues due to uninitialized memory.
• GTA IV: Fixed a broken application profile that would break gameplay on Nvidia GPUs.
• risen 3: Fixed crash on Nvidia GPUs.
• World of Final Fantasy: forcibly disable MSAA to fix game bugs.

Finally if you are interested in knowing more about it About this new release, you can check the details In the following link.

How to add DXVK support to Linux?

DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games on Linux using Wine, acting as a higher-performance alternative to Wine's built-in Direct3D 11 implementation that runs on OpenGL.

DXVK requires the latest stable version of Wine to run. So, if you don't have this installed. Now we will only have to download the latest stable package of DXVK, this one we found In the following link.

wget https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/v1.9.1/dxvk-1.9.1.tar.gz

After having made the download now we are going to unzip the package just obtained, this can be done with from your desktop environment or from the terminal itself by executing in the following command:

tar -xzvf dxvk-1.9.1.tar.gz

Then we access the folder with:

cd dxvk-1.9.1

And we execute the sh command to run the install script:

sudo sh setup-dxvk.sh install

setup-dxvk.sh install --without-dxgi

When installing DXVK in a prefix of Wine. The advantage is that Wine vkd3d can be used for D3D12 games and DXVK for D3D11 games.

Also, the new script allows the dll to be installed as symbolic links, making it easier to update the DXVK to get more Wine prefixes (you can do this via the –symlink command).

How will you see the folder DXVK contains two other dlls for 32 and 64 bits these we are going to place them according to the following routes.
Where "user" you replace it with the username you use in your Linux distribution.

For 64 bits we put them in:

~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

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/home/”usuario”/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

And for 32 bits in:

~/.wine/drive_c/windows/syswow64

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/home/”usuario”/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/