mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 days agoD7VK 1.2 released: improves Direct3D 6 front-end in its D3D7 to Vulkan translator, making D3D6 less experimental, enabling more legacy Windows games on Linux with excellent performance over WineD3Dgithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1113arrow-down10
arrow-up1113arrow-down1external-linkD7VK 1.2 released: improves Direct3D 6 front-end in its D3D7 to Vulkan translator, making D3D6 less experimental, enabling more legacy Windows games on Linux with excellent performance over WineD3Dgithub.commr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 days agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareSynapse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·8 days agoIt’s not going to take long until Linux is better at running Windows games than Windows itself, especially for older games.
minus-squaresuperweeniehutjrs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·8 days agoOn some hardware and software combinations, this is already true for even recent (2020+) games
minus-squareHoloPengin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoDXVK really works around a ton of issues and oddities in older games that Windows and gpu manufactures barely, if ever, fixed. And all because Valve hired/pays the guy who started it as an attempt to play Nier Automata on Linux (which itself is a fairly janky port)
It’s not going to take long until Linux is better at running Windows games than Windows itself, especially for older games.
On some hardware and software combinations, this is already true for even recent (2020+) games
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DXVK really works around a ton of issues and oddities in older games that Windows and gpu manufactures barely, if ever, fixed.
And all because Valve hired/pays the guy who started it as an attempt to play Nier Automata on Linux (which itself is a fairly janky port)