vkd3d-proton

Yep, someone needs to do the same workarounds Windows drivers do but on Linux and the translation layer is a good spot for them, look at https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/blob/938d7... for example

I am, I have an Nvidia 5070 Ti, Aurora for my OS (from the same people as bazzite, but I'm a light gamer so I'm fine using flatpak steam/heroic/etc). the only problems I've faced are - occasionally an online game breaks and it's usually fixed within a day or two. for example at some point a Battle.net update broke the launcher under Wine some time last year, then for a while Overwatch would intermittently crash once every few sessions. I haven't gamed on Windows in years so I can't even compare anecdotally, but I suspect Windows is probably slightly more stable with live service games. I've never had any issues with a single player game, period. (YMMV) - DX12 performance is 10-20% worse on Nvidia. This should be improved Soon (TM) - I think the last piece is https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/tree/descr... - Some anticheats

I think the actual answer you are looking for is this paragraph: > These old workarounds got subtle edge cases wrong in ways that produced occasional hitches, deadlocks, or weird behavior in specific games, which are bugs that don't show up on benchmark charts but can absolutely ruin individual experiences. NTSYNC fixes those at the source by matching Windows behavior exactly, and that means as soon as your favorite distro moves to the new kernel version, whether it be Bazzite, CachyOS, Fedora, or a flavor of Ubuntu, they all get this much-needed fix. That's the crux of the article. NTSYNC isn't faster, it's more "correct". Most games are around the same level of performance, with certain outliers both ways. Right now there isn't anything performance wise that Linux has to do that would impact all games. Just tweaks and additions to the d

Another fun one is AMD's Linux drivers support emulated ray tracing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT6qbcKT7YY . This game won't even start on a newer/faster GTX 1080Ti Though speaking of a 1080Ti, that's a GPU you don't want to run on Linux because it lacks some Vulkan features for good DX12 translation: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/465

Proton (Steam Play 2.0) is a set of game-focused patches on top of Wine, plus several other components that improve game compatibility and/or performance. The most notable of these are DXVK, which implements Direct3D 8/9/10/11 APIs in terms of Vulkan, and vkd3d-proton, which does the same for Direct3D 12. In many cases, it's possible to get a game running with regular Wine (or Wine-staging) if you install into the Wine prefix not only the game, but also one or more of: DXVK, vkd3d-proton, whatever Microsoft Visual C++ runtime the game wants, and Mono. If a game also needs custom Wine patches, you'll have better luck with a game manager like Lutris, which automates installing patched Wine versions, or running a Wine build like the one that GloriousEggroll maintained until recently. Be sure that your graphics card's Vulkan drivers are inst

If anyone is playing on Linux with an AMD GPU and has texture issues (missing FBI text on the characters' jackets is the give away), it can be fixed with applying a patch to mesa-git: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/175.... It should hopefully be implemented soon. I think it's only limited to RDNA2.

I know you've said native in capital letters, but it does work under proton / wine. There are a couple of "gotchas" – if you're using lutris, make sure you run it from the game's working directory. If you're using steam, use GloriousEggroll's latest version (https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases). In both cases, you'll need vkd3d-proton to get the dx12 shaders working (https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton). I tried the game briefly. It's buggy, with a terrible UI that is obviously built for the X-box, and it's beyond punishing. It's just not my cup of tea at all.

Probably. It's funny that the game at least used to run better on Proton due to bad DX12 API usage workarounds implemented in the translation layer. Enabled mitigations can be tracked from https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/blob/maste...

Something I found pretty interesting, in that same line of thought, is that the VKD3D developer apparently added a specific hack [0] to work around a game bug that causes heavy stuttering even on Windows systems, effectively making Wine/Proton a better platform to play this game than Windows itself. [0]; https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/commit/f39...

I very much suspect it's this [0] — I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. A library intending to implement a Direct3D API support, on top of the Vulcan API. [0] https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton