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Friday, December 9, 2022

Proton 7.0-5 released

 Released as Proton Next:


  • The following games are now playable:
    • Rift
    • Unravel 2
    • Airborne Kingdom
    • Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull
    • Re-Volt
    • Aspire: Ina's Tale
    • Battle Realms: Zen Edition
    • Deathsmiles II
    • Primal Carnage: Extinction
    • Pico Park Classic Edition
    • Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
    • Darkstar One
    • Indiana Jones and the Emperor Tomb
    • Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
  • Fix Batman: Arkham City GOTY launching in the background on Steam Deck when set to fullscreen.
  • Fix Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered displaying dialog about outdated drivers on AMD systems.
  • Fix Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake) having no audio.
  • Fix Return to Monkey Island not reacting to mouse clicks after a recent game update.
  • Fix upsidedown videos in VRChat and many other games.
  • Fix Call of Duty Black Ops II Zombies and Multiplayer hanging on exit.
  • Fix Bail or Jail crashing when opening the Terms of Serivce.
  • Improve GTA V situation with not loading textures.
  • Fix Red Dead Redemption 2 crashing after a recent game update.
  • Fix Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher functionality after game update.
  • Fix cutscene stutter in Disgaea 5.
  • Fix Thrustmaster HOTAS having non-functional dial in Elite Dangerous.
  • Fix Planet Zoo randomly crashing.
  • Fix SCP: Secret Labratory not being playable after a recent game update (again).
  • Fix Tekken 7 crashing at launch.
  • Fix Armello hanging on exit.
  • Fix Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization freezing after the tutorial.
  • Fix Space Engineers intro video not playing correctly.
  • Fix Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen videos not playing correctly.
  • Implement network video support for VRChat.
  • Update dxvk to v1.10.3-28-ge3daa699.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Steam and Lutris in EuroLinux Desktop

The holiday season is approaching, so today we offer a slightly lighter, but interesting topic. After a period of tumultuous development, Linux gaming has finally managed to win the trust of gamers and convince them to the platform from under the penguin sign. Thanks to digital video game distribution services, gamers can enjoy their favorite Windows titles also on EuroLinux Desktop.

However, before trying to install Steam, you should make sure that EuroLinux Desktop includes the required graphics drivers. If not, Nvidia users should download the company's official drivers, and AMD users should install the open Mesa drivers.

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Compatibility layers

  • Wine – allows Windows programs to run on Linux using native Linux libraries, APIs and drivers.
  • Proton – Wine fork by Valve, with some special tools for additional compatibility.
  • Vulkan – a cross-platform, open-source graphics API that is capable of using most DirectX calls present in Windows games. Although you can install DirectX in Wine, a "more native" alternative is to use just Vulkan.

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A breakthrough for gaming on Linux systems was the introduction of DXVK (DirectX to Vulkan), a tool for converting Microsoft DirectX 11 and DirectX 10 graphics calls to Vulkan, an open source graphics API that is compatible with Linux. DXVK is mainly used in Steam Play and is part of the Proton group. The solution works differently than the traditional emulator approach to gaming, where you have to use a Windows virtual machine and play as if "inside it." DXVK allows translation and full use of the computer's hardware resources. With this solution we get comparable performance to the native version of the game.

ProtonDB

ProtonDB is a service that compiles player experiences into a convenient-to-view database where you can see how well a title performs on GNU/Linux. The service has an actively growing community of testers who help improve Proton. Users can easily check the game's compatibility rating, leave reviews, and rate performance and compatibility. Game testers also leave bug fixes and tips on what to do to fix a game and help it run on Linux. Using the site, you can search for games from your library on the homepage or link your Steam account to check the status of each game in one go.

Steam

Steam is Valve's digital video game distribution service and store. The Steam software client was launched in September 2003 as a way to provide automatic updates for games developed by Valve. It was then expanded in late 2005 to include the ability to distribute titles from other game publishers. Steam offers various features such as digital rights management (DRM), game server matchmaking and anti-cheat programs, as well as social services and streaming games.

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Civilization V game running via Steam on EuroLinux Desktop

To install Steam on EuroLinux 9 Desktop, run the following commands:

sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm && \
sudo dnf install snapd && \
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket  && \
snap install --beta steam

Activate Proton in Steam

Proton is integrated into the Steam client via "Steam Play." To activate Proton, launch the Steam client and click the Steam menu in the upper left corner. Then click the Settings menu to open a new window, and the Steam Play button. At the bottom of the panel, select Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles and leave the Proton Experimental selection in the drop-down list. The application will ask you to restart the Steam client. If you want to try other games that are not guaranteed to work on Linux, check the Enable Steam Play for All Other Titles checkbox.

GOG

GOG is a digital distribution platform service for video games and movies. It makes many DRM-free digital games available for many platforms, including Linux. A Linux version of the client is planned, but an expected release date is not available. Nevertheless, in the Software application in the FlatHub repository, you can find several minimalist clients for this (Polish) provider. In addition, GOG provides standalone game installers, so you can use it with any web browser. GOG is also integrated with the Lutris platform.

Lutris

Lutris is a free and open source game manager for GNU/Linux. It provides a consistent interface and community installation scripts that automatically configure the Wine environment for specific game titles. Lutris also offers integration for software purchased from GOG, Humble Bundle, Steam and Epic Games Store. These can be run after logging into the respective services, directly through the Lutris app. In addition, Lutris supports more than 20 emulators, including ScummVM, DOSBox. Dolphin, MAME, Snes9x, PCSX2 and PPSSPP. On EuroLinux Desktop, the Lutris client can be installed directly from the Software application by searching the FlatHub repository.

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Lutris interface after GOG.com integration

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Installing a game from GOG.com via Lutris

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Game running on EuroLinux Desktop thanks to the Lutris service

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Friday, August 26, 2022

Lutris 0.5.11 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

  • Fix for some installers commands exiting with return code 256
  • Change shortcut for show/hide installed games to Ctrl + i
  • Show/hide hidden games is assigned to Ctrl + h
  • Install game launcher before login for services that use one.
  • Add Amazon Games integration
  • Added SheepShaver, BasiliskII and Mini vMac runners
  • Don't perform runtime updates when a game is launched via a shortcut
  • Support variables in script URLs
  • Fix crash when Lutris is unable to read the screen resolution
  • Enable Gamescope on Nvidia >= 515
  • Fixes for Steam shortcuts
  • Add Gnome Console and Deepin Terminal to supported terminal emulators
  • Fix crash when Mangohud is used alongside Gamescope
  • Translation updates

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Friday, August 5, 2022

Lutris 0.5.11-beta1 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

  • Fix for some installers commands exiting with return code 256
  • Change shortcut for show/hide installed games to Ctrl + i
  • Show/hide hidden games is assigned to Ctrl + h
  • Install game launcher before login for services that use one.
  • Added SheepShaver, BasiliskII and Mini vMac runners
  • Don't perform runtime updates when a game is launched via a shortcut
  • Fix crash when Lutris is unable to read the screen resolution
  • Enable Gamescope on Nvidia >= 515
  • Fixes for Steam shortcuts
  • Add Gnome Console and Deepin Terminal to supported terminal emulators
  • Fix crash when Mangohud is used alongside Gamescope
  • Translation updates

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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Lutris 0.5.10.1 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

This is a small update for the client released a few weeks ago. The goal is mainly to provide some fixes to improve Flatpak compatibility and provide a good experience on the Steam Deck.

A few fixes unrelated to Flatpak have been added as well and the MangoHUD option is now a simple switch (this requires the latest version of MangoHUD to have support for both 32bit and OpenGL games.)

CHANGELOG

  • Check for Steam executable in home folder for Flatpak
  • Adjust the Steam, application and desktop shortcuts to launch with
    Flatpak when necessary
  • Disable local (XDG) service in Flatpak
  • Simplify MangoHUD option (now an On/Off toggle)
  • Remove ability for Lutris to quit Steam
  • Don't default to fsync on older kernels
  • Default to a base resolution when Lutris is unable to read the current
    configuration
  • Fix issue with .NET 4.8 installation which affects the FF XIV launcher

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Saturday, April 2, 2022

Lutris 0.5.10 has been released with Steam Deck support

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Steam Deck support

We're pleased to announce the release of Lutris 0.5.10! This is the first release since the Steam Deck has started shipping and yes, Lutris runs quite nicely on the device. Many thanks to Valve for providing a dev kit!

Please note that the Flatpak version still needs some work and will be the next point of focus now that 0.5.10 is out. Currently, Lutris has been tested with the installation from the Arch and AUR repositories. This requires disabling the read only flag of your Deck's system drive and should only be done if you're comfortable with Linux to some extent. Consider re-enabling the read-only flag after installing Lutris.

Also note that major SteamOS upgrades might reset the system partition and require you to reinstall Lutris. This hasn't happened yet, and minor Steam Deck updates won't affect your Lutris installation. We hope having the Flatpak version ready before any major upgrade happens.

It's recommended to use the "Create Steam shortcut" when installing games, this will make the game available in the Deck UI and allow you to benefit from Steam Input. If you want to play games in desktop mode and use the Deck controls as a joypad, make sure you configure Steam accordingly, as it is set by default to emulate a keyboard and mouse.

Adding games

Make sure to click the "+" button to see its new functionality. It used to be for adding a game manually but now offers a lot of other options as shown below

Screenshot from 2022-04-01 14-11-20

"Search the Lutris website" replaces the "Community installers" tab in the Lutris service. The Lutris service now acts like the others and simply show your library from lutris.net.

"Scan a folder for games" is useful if you have a folder of games you previously installed with lutris but are no longer indexed in the client. This feature matches folder names with lutris game identifiers and uses the install script to find the correct executable

"Install a Windows game from media" is useful when you want to install a game from a setup.exe in an optical media or a download.

"Install from a local install script" is a GUI version of the previously available -i / --install command line flag and allows you to install local YAML installers

"Add locally installed game" open the dialog to add a game manually, this was the default behavior of the "+" button.

Integrations

Lutris receives 2 new integration with support for Origin and Ubisoft Connect. As with the Epic Games Store integration, you will need to install the Origin and Ubisoft Connect clients to use this integration. This is especially important for Ubisoft Connect, since their API doesn't return all your games and most will be available once you have logged in the Windows client.
Ubisoft Connect also has a tendency to be slow and getting stuck on an "Initializing" dialog. If this happens, close the dialog and retry installing or launching the game you which to play.

The Origin client can sometimes fail to update itself. When this happens click the "cancel" button but when Origin asks you for confirmation to cancel the update, say no and Origin will restart the update process, completing it successfully.

Humble Bundle has made changes to their API and it is currently not possible to log in or install games until we provide a patch.

Changelog

  • Add new window to add games to Lutris, with searches from the website,
    scanning a folder for previously installed games, installing a Windows
    game from a setup file, installing from a YAML script or configuring a
    single game manually.
  • Move the search for Lutris installers from a tab in the Lutris service
    to the window for adding games.
  • Add option to add a Lutris game to Steam
  • Add a coverart format
  • Add integration with EA Origin
  • Add integration with Ubisoft Connect
  • Download missing media on startup
  • Remove Winesteam runner (install Steam for Windows in Lutris instead)
  • PC (Linux and Windows) games have their own dedicated Nvidia shader cache
  • Add dgvoodoo2 option
  • Add option to enable BattleEye anti-cheat support
  • Default to Retroarch cores in ~/.config/retroarch/cores if available
  • Add support for downloading patches and DLC for GOG games
  • Add --export and --import command line flags to export a game a lutris
    game and re-import it (requires --dest for the destination path, feature still experimental)
  • Add command line flags to manage runners: --install-runner, --uninstall-runners,
    --list-runners, --list-wine-versions
  • Change behavior of the "Stop" button, remove "Kill all Wine processes" action
  • Gamescope option is now disabled on Nvidia GPUs
  • Enable F-Sync by default

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Friday, March 4, 2022

vkd3d-proton version 2.6 has been released

VKD3D-Proton is a fork of VKD3D, which aims to implement the full Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan. The project serves as the development effort for Direct3D 12 support in Proton.

 

It has been a long while since 2.5, and this release rolls up a lot of fixes, features and optimizations.

Fixes

  • Fix black screen rendering bug in Horizon Zero Dawn after latest game updates.
  • Fix crashes on startup in Final Fantasy VII: Remake and Warframe.
  • Fix crashes in Guardians of the Galaxy when interacting with certain game objects.
  • Fix hang on game shutdown in Elden Ring.
  • Fix broken geometry rendering in Age of Empires: IV.

Optimization

  • Improve generated shader code for vectorized load-store operations in DXIL.
  • Greatly reduce CPU overhead for descriptor copy operations,
    which is a key contributor to CPU overhead in D3D12.

Features

Pipeline library rewrite

Support D3D12 pipeline libraries better where we can now also cache
generated SPIR-V from DXBC/DXIL.
Massively reduces subsequent load times in Monster Hunter: Rise,
and helps other titles like Guardian of the Galaxy and Elden Ring.
Also lays the groundwork for internal driver caches down the line for games which do not use this API.
Also, deduplicates binary blobs for reduced disk size requirements.

Shader models

Shader model 6.6 is now fully implemented. This includes support for:

  • ResourceDescriptorHeap[] direct access
  • 64-bit atomics
  • IsHelperLane()
  • Compute shader derivatives
  • WaveSize attribute
  • Packed math intrinsics

Minor features

  • Handle API feature MinResourceLODClamp correctly if VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod is supported.
  • Expose CastFullyTypedFormat feature.
  • Expose some advanced shader features on Intel related to UAV formats (VK_KHR_format_feature_flags2).
  • Support COLOR -> STENCIL copies.

Workarounds

  • Workaround DEATHLOOP not emitting synchronization commands correctly. Fixes menu flicker on RADV.
  • Workaround quirky API usage in Elden Ring. Removes many kinds of stutter and chug when traversing the scenery.
  • Workaround certain environments failing to create Vulkan device if some VK_NVX_* extensions are enabled.
  • Workaround glitched foliage rendering in Horizon Zero Dawn after latest game updates.
  • Workaround some questionable UE4 shaders causing glitched rendering on RADV.

Note on future Vulkan driver requirements

2.6 is expected to be the last vkd3d-proton release before we require some newer Vulkan extensions.
VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering and VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state
(and likely dynamic_state_2 as well) will be required.

VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering in particular requires up-to-date drivers and the legacy render pass path
will be abandoned in favor of it. Supporting both paths at the same time is not practical.
Moving to VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering allows us to fix some critical flaws with the legacy API
which caused potential shader compilation stutters and extra CPU overhead.

Link to source code

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Saturday, February 26, 2022

Lutris 0.5.10-beta2 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

  • Add new window to add games to Lutris, with searches from the website,
    scanning a folder for previously installed games, installing a Windows
    game from a setup file, installing from a YAML script or configuring a
    single game manually.
  • Move the search for Lutris installers from a tab in the Lutris service
    to the window for adding games.
  • Add a coverart format
  • Add integration with EA Origin
  • Add integration with Ubisoft Connect
  • Download missing media on startup
  • Remove Winesteam runner (install Steam for Windows in Lutris instead)
  • PC (Linux and Windows) games have their own dedicated Nvidia shader cache
  • Add dgvoodoo2 option
  • Add option to enable BattleEye anti-cheat support
  • Default to Retroarch cores in ~/.config/retroarch/cores if available
  • Add support for downloading patches and DLC for GOG games
  • Add --export and --import command line flags to export a game a lutris
    game and re-import it (requires --dest for the destination path)
  • Add command line flags to manage runners: --install-runner, --uninstall-runners,
    --list-runners, --list-wine-versions
  • Change behavior of the "Stop" button, remove "Kill all Wine processes" action
  • Gamescope option is now disabled on Nvidia GPUs
  • Enable F-Sync by default

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Saturday, February 12, 2022

Lutris 0.5.10-beta1 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

  • Add new window to add games to Lutris, with searches from the website,
    scanning a folder for previously installed games, installing a Windows
    game from a setup file, installing from a YAML script or configuring a
    single game manually.
  • Move the search for Lutris installers from a tab in the Lutris service
    to the window for adding games.
  • Add a coverart format
  • Add integration with EA Origin
  • Add integration with Ubisoft Connect
  • Download missing media on startup
  • Remove Winesteam runner (install Steam for Windows in Lutris instead)
  • PC (Linux and Windows) games have their own dedicated Nvidia shader cache
  • Add dgvoodoo2 option
  • Add option to enable BattleEye anti-cheat support

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Monday, October 18, 2021

vkd3d-proton version 2.5 has been released

VKD3D-Proton is a fork of VKD3D, which aims to implement the full Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan. The project serves as the development effort for Direct3D 12 support in Proton.

 


This is a release with a little bit of everything!

Features

DXR progress

DXR has seen significant work in the background.

  • DXR 1.1 is now experimentally exposed. It can be enabled with VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11.
    Note that DXR 1.1 cannot be fully implemented in VK_KHR_ray_tracing's current form, in particular
    DispatchRays() indirect is not compatible yet,
    although we have not observed a game which requires this API feature.
  • DXR 1.1 inline raytracing support is fully implemented.
  • DXR 1.0 support is more or less feature complete.
    Some weird edge cases remain, but will likely not be implemented unless required by a game.
    VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr will eventually be dropped when it matures.

Some new DXR games are starting to come alive, especially with DXR 1.1 enabled,
but there are significant bugs as well that we currently cannot easily debug.
Some experimental results on NVIDIA:

  • Control - already worked
  • DEATHLOOP - appears to work correctly
  • Cyberpunk 2077 - DXR can be enabled, but GPU timeouts
  • World of Warcraft - according to a user, it works, but we have not confirmed ourselves
  • Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition -
    gets ingame and appears to work? Not sure if it looks correct.
    Heavy CPU stutter for some reason ...
  • Metro Exodus (original release) - GPU timeouts when enabling DXR
  • Resident Evil: Village - Appears to work, but the visual difference is subtle.

It's worth experimenting with these and others.
DXR is incredibly complicated, so expect bugs.
From here, DXR support is mostly a case of stamping out issues one by one.

NVIDIA DLSS

NVIDIA contributed integration APIs in vkd3d-proton which enables DLSS support in D3D12 titles in Proton.
See Proton documentation for how to enable NvAPI support.

Shader models

A fair bit of work went into DXIL translation support to catch up with native drivers.

  • Shader model 6.5 is exposed.
    Shader model 6.6 should be straight forward once that becomes relevant.
  • Shader model 6.4 implementation takes advantage of VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product when supported.
  • Proper fallback for FP16 math on GPUs which do not expose native FP16 support (Polaris, Pascal).
    Notably fixes AMD FSR shaders in Resident Evil: Village (and others).
  • Shader model 6.1 SV_Barycentric support implemented (NVIDIA only for now).
  • Support shader model 6.2 FP32 denorm control.

Performance

Resizable BAR can improve GPU performance about 10-15% in the best case, depends a lot on the game.
Horizon Zero Dawn and Death Stranding in particular improve massively with this change.

By default, vkd3d-proton will now take advantage of PCI-e BAR memory types through heuristics
as D3D12 does not expose direct support for resizable BAR, and native D3D12 drivers are known to use heuristics as well.
Without resizable BAR enabled in BIOS/vBIOS, we only get 256 MiB which can help performance,
but many games will improve performance even more
when we are allowed to use more than that.
There is an upper limit for how much VRAM is dedicated to this purpose.
We also added VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv to disable all uses of PCI-e BAR memory.

Other performance improvements:

  • Avoid redundant descriptor update work in certain scenarios (NVIDIA contribution).
  • Minor tweaks here and there to reduce CPU overhead.

Fixes and workarounds

  • Fix behavior for swap chain presentation latency HANDLE. Fixes spurious deadlocks in some cases.
  • Fix many issues related to depth-stencil handling, which fixed various issues in DEATHLOOP, F1 2021, WRC 10.
  • Fix DIRT 5 rendering issues and crashes. Should be fully playable now.
  • Fix some Diablo II Resurrected rendering issues.
  • Workaround shader bugs in Psychonauts 2.
  • Workaround some Unreal Engine 4 shader bugs which multiple titles trigger.
  • Fix some stability issues when VRAM is exhausted on NVIDIA.
  • Fix CPU crash in boot-up sequence of Far Cry 6 (game is still kinda buggy though, but gets in-game).
  • Fix various bugs with host visible images. Fixes DEATHLOOP.
  • Fix various DXIL conversion bugs.
  • Add Invariant geometry workarounds for specific games which require it.
  • Fix how d3d12.dll exports symbols to be more in line with MSVC.
  • Fix some edge cases in bitfield instructions.
  • Work around extreme CPU memory bloat on the specific NVIDIA driver versions which had this bug.
  • Fix regression in Evil Genius 2: World Domination.
  • Fix crashes in Hitman 3.
  • Fix terrain rendering in Anno 1800.
  • Various correctness and crash fixes.

 Link to source code

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Sunday, October 17, 2021

Lutris 0.5.9.1 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

This is a small update to Lutris 0.5.9 to fix a number of issues:

  • Fix possible escaping error for gamescope option
  • Remove walrus operator to restore compatibility with Python 3.7 / Ubuntu 18.04
  • Remove log file being written in the home folder
  • Fix install button for community installer
  • Fix markup error on gamescope option
  • Update URL for Ryujinx build
  • Fix Steam sync creating duplicate games

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Lutris 0.5.9 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

  • Add initial support for Epic Games Store
  • Add support for Steam for Windows as a game source
  • Add support for DXVK-NVAPI and DLSS
  • Add FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) option for compatible Wine versions
  • Add workaround for locale issues when Lutris is launched from Steam
  • Add gamescope option
  • Lutris games can now be launched from Steam
  • 3rd party services can be enabled or disabled in the preferences
  • The main preferences window has now tabs on the left side
  • Runner configuration is now available from the main preferences window
  • VKD3D is a separate option from DXVK
  • Esync is enabled by default
  • Dolphin is available as a game source (reads games from the emulator's
    local database of games)
  • Scan for installed games when using Steam source
  • Improved automatic installers for GOG, detection of DOSBOX and ScummVM
    games.
  • DRM free services (Humble, GOG) can locate existing installations of games
  • Use 7zip as the default extractor when not given an archive type
  • Improve process monitoring, allowing for monitoring of Steam games
  • Disable AMD switchable graphics layer by default (breaks games)
  • Removed support for Gallium 9
  • Removed support for X360CE
  • Removed legacy WineD3D options

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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Lutris 0.5.9-beta2 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

This is the second beta release for Lutris 0.5.9.

  • Add initial support for Epic Games Store
  • Add support for Steam for Windows as a game source
  • Add support for DXVK-NVAPI and DLSS
  • Add FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) option for compatible Wine versions
  • Add workaround for locale issues when Lutris is launched from Steam
  • Add gamescope option
  • Lutris games can now be launched from Steam
  • 3rd party services can be enabled or disabled in the preferences
  • The main preferences window has now tabs on the left side
  • Runner configuration is now available from the main preferences window
  • VKD3D is a separate option from DXVK
  • Esync is enabled by default
  • Dolphin is available as a game source (reads games from the emulator's
    local database of games)
  • Scan for installed games when using Steam source
  • Improved automatic installers for GOG, detection of DOSBOX and ScummVM
    games.
  • DRM free services (Humble, GOG) can locate existing installations of games
  • Use 7zip as the default extractor when not given an archive type
  • Improve process monitoring, allowing for monitoring of Steam games
  • Disable AMD switchable graphics layer by default (breaks games)
  • Removed support for Gallium 9
  • Removed support for X360CE
  • Removed legacy WineD3D options

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Sunday, August 1, 2021

Lutris 0.5.9-beta1 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

This is the first public beta release for Lutris 0.5.9.

  • Add initial support for Epic Games Store
  • Add support for Steam for Windows as a game source
  • Add support for DXVK-NVAPI and DLSS
  • Add FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) option for compatible Wine versions
  • Add workaround for locale issues when Lutris is launched from Steam
  • Add gamescope option
  • 3rd party services can be enabled or disabled in the preferences
  • The main preferences window has now tabs on the left side
  • Runner configuration is now available from the main preferences window
  • VKD3D is a separate option from DXVK
  • Esync is enabled by default
  • Dolphin is available as a game source (reads games from the emulator's
    local database of games)
  • Scan for installed games when using Steam source
  • Improved automatic installers for GOG, detection of DOSBOX and ScummVM
    games.
  • DRM free services (Humble, GOG) can locate existing installations of games
  • Use 7zip as the default extractor when not given an archive type
  • Improve process monitoring, allowing for monitoring of Steam games
  • Disable AMD switchable graphics layer by default (breaks games)
  • Removed support for Gallium 9
  • Removed support for X360CE
  • Removed legacy WineD3D options

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Thursday, July 8, 2021

vkd3d-proton version 2.4 has been released

VKD3D-Proton is a fork of VKD3D, which aims to implement the full Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan. The project serves as the development effort for Direct3D 12 support in Proton.

 


This is a release which focuses on performance and bug-fixes.

Performance

  • Improve swapchain latency and frame pacing by up to one frame.
  • Optimize lookup of format info.
  • Avoid potential pipeline compilation stutter in certain scenarios.
  • Rewrite how we handle image layouts for color and depth-stencil targets.
    Allows us to remove a lot of dumb
    barriers giving significant GPU-bound performance improvements.
    ~15%-20% GPU bound uplift in Horizon Zero Dawn,
    ~10% in Death Stranding,
    and 5%-10% improvements in many other titles.

Features

  • Enable support for sparse 3D textures (tiled resources tier 3).

Bug fixes and workarounds

  • Various bug fixes in DXIL.
  • Fix weird bug where sun would pop through walls in RE: Village.
  • Workaround game bug in Cyberpunk 2077 where certain locales would render a black screen.
  • Fix various bugs (in benchmark and in vkd3d-proton) allowing GravityMark to run.
  • Improve robustness against certain app bugs related to NULL descriptors.
  • Fix bug with constant FP64 vector handling in DXBC.
  • Fix bug where Cyberpunk 2077 inventory screen could spuriously hang GPU on RADV.
  • Add workaround for Necromunda: Hired Gun where character models would render random garbage on RADV.
  • Fix bug in Necromunda: Hired Gun causing random screen flicker.
  • Fix windowed mode tracking when leaving fullscreen. Fix Alt-Tab handling in Horizon Zero Dawn.
  • Temporary workaround for SRV ResourceMinLODClamp. Fix black ground rendering in DIRT 5.
    The overbright HDR rendering in DIRT 5 sadly persists however :(
  • Implement fallback maximum swapchain latency correctly.

Development features

Various features which are useful for developers were added to aid debugging.

  • Descriptor QA can instrument shaders in runtime for GPU-assisted validation.
    Performance is good enough (> 40 FPS) that games are actually playable in this mode.
    See README for details.
  • Allow forcing off CONCURRENT queue, and using EXCLUSIVE queue.
    Not valid, but can be useful as a speed hack on Polaris when single_queue is not an option
    and for testing driver behavior differences.

Link to source code

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Saturday, July 3, 2021

Lutris 0.5.8.4 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

This is a bugfix release only and doesn't contain any new features. The release of lutris 0.5.9 is due soon.

Fixes:

  • Fix Steam icon showing too big on some systems
  • Fix DXVK not updating
  • Fix Python 3.9 compatibility
  • Update sidebar on service login
  • Remember position of window except on Wayland maybe
  • GST plugin path is now only set if it exists
  • Default to 7zip when not given an archive extractor
  • Switch IRC to Libera chat
  • Fix libretro info file loading
  • Let pipewire users toggle "Reduce PulseAudio latency"

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

vkd3d-proton version 2.3.1 has been released

VKD3D-Proton is a fork of VKD3D, which aims to implement the full Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan. The project serves as the development effort for Direct3D 12 support in Proton.

 


 This is a minor bugfix release to address some issues solved shortly after the last release.

Fixes

  • Improved support for older Wine and Vulkan Loader versions.
  • Fix blocky shadows in Horizon Zero Dawn.
  • Fix the install script failing on Wine installs not built with upstream vkd3d.
  • Fix minor dxil translation issues.

Link to source code

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Thursday, April 22, 2021

vkd3d-proton version 2.3 has been released

VKD3D-Proton is a fork of VKD3D, which aims to implement the full Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan. The project serves as the development effort for Direct3D 12 support in Proton.

 


This release adds support for more D3D12 features and greatly improves GPU bound performance
in many scenarios.

Features

Early DXR 1.0 support

VK_KHR_raytracing is used to enable cross-vendor ray-tracing support.
The implementation is WIP, but it is good enough to run some real content.

As of writing, only the NVIDIA driver works correctly.
It is expected AMD RDNA2 GPUs will work when working drivers are available
(amdgpu-pro 21.10 is known to not work).

Games which are expected to work include:

  • Control (appears to be fully working)
  • Ghostrunner (seems to work, not exhaustively tested)

To enable DXR support, VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr %command% should be used when launching game.
Certain games may be unstable if DXR is enabled by default.

Conservative rasterization

Full support (tier 3) for conservative rasterization was added.

Variable rate shading

Full support (tier 2) for variable rate shading was added.

Command list bundles

Allows Kingdom Hearts remaster to get past the errors, unsure if game fully works yet.

Write Watch and APITrace

Support for D3D12_HEAP_FLAG_ALLOW_WRITE_WATCH has been added.
This means APITraces of titles can now be captured.

Performance

  • Improve GPU bound performance in RE2 by up to 20% on NVIDIA.
  • Enable async compute queues. Greatly improves GPU performance and frame pacing in many titles.
    Horizon Zero Dawn and Death Stranding see exceptional gains with this fix,
    due to how the engines work. GPU utilization should now reach ~100%.
    For best results, AMD Navi+ GPUs are recommended, but Polaris and earlier still
    see great results. It is possible to disable this path, if for whatever reason
    multiple queues are causing issues. See README.
  • Optimize bindless constant buffer GPU-bound performance on NVIDIA if certain API code paths are used.
  • Optimize sparse binding CPU overhead.
  • TRACE logging calls are disabled by default on release builds.

Fixes and workarounds

  • Fix various DXIL bugs.
  • Be more robust against broken pipeline creation API calls.
    Avoids driver crashes in Forza Horizon 4.
  • Workaround some buggy shaders in F1 2020.
  • Fix bugs if depth bounds test is used in certain ways.
  • Fix a read out-of-bounds in UpdateTileMappings.
  • Fix SV_ClipDistance and SV_CullDistance in Hull Shaders.

Link to source code

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Saturday, February 20, 2021

vkd3d-proton version 2.2 has been released

VKD3D-Proton is a fork of VKD3D, which aims to implement the full Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan. The project serves as the development effort for Direct3D 12 support in Proton.

 


This release is mostly a maintenance release which fixes bugs and regressions.
It also unblocks significant future feature development.

Workaround removals

  • Replace old force_bindless_texel_buffer workaround with
    a more correct and performant implementation.
    Death Stranding and Cyberpunk 2077 (and probably other games as well) do the right thing by default without the hack now.
  • Remove old workaround disable_query_optimization for occlusion queries which was enabled for AC: Valhalla,
    and is now replaced by a correct and efficient implementation.

Cyberpunk 2077 status

From recent testing on our end, it is unknown at this time if VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor_type is still required for
Cyberpunk 2077. Manual testing hasn't been able to trigger a GPU hang.
The memory allocation rewrite in 2.2 can plausibly work around some of the bugs that VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor_type fixed by accident.
The bugs in question could also have been fixed since release day, but we cannot prove this since the bug is completely random in nature.

Regression fixes

  • Fix regression in Horizon Zero Dawn for screen space reflections on water surfaces.

Stability fixes

  • Greatly improve stability on Polaris or older cards for certain titles.
    Crashes which used to happen in Horizon Zero Dawn and Death Stranding seem to have disappeared
    after the memory allocation rewrite.
    GPU memory usage should decrease on these cards as well.
  • DIRT 5 can get in-game now due to DXIL fixes, but is not yet playable.

New features

  • Add support for Variable Rate Shading tier 1.

Future development

DXR is not yet supported, but has seen a fair bit of background work.

  • Basic DXR pipelines can be created successfully.
  • Memory allocation rewrite in 2.2 unblocks further DXR development.

Link to source code

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Saturday, January 23, 2021

Lutris 0.5.8.3 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

  • Really fix popovers not showing on Wayland without making them non-modal
  • Prevent GStreamer based configuration from being applied in incompatible
    wine builds.
  • Fix crash when wine runner accesses DXVK versions before they are
    uploaded.
  • Prevent init dialog from being closed while it downloads the runtime.

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