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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Wine maintenance release 5.0.5 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine maintenance release 5.0.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Fixes build failure when v4l is missing

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Changes since 5.0.4:

Michael Stefaniuc (1):
      Revert "qcap: Avoid unused variable warning if v4l is absent."

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Wine development release 6.6 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Mono engine updated to version 6.1.1, with upstream updates.
• DWrite and DnsApi libraries converted to PE.
• Plug & play driver support improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Bugs fixed in 6.6 (total 56):

   5162  Multiple applications need ITextServices::TxDraw and ITextServices::TxGetNaturalSize implementation (Google Talk, WebLoad, XMPSetup, ICQ 6.x, Kugou Music, QQ, Wechat, PVSYST)
  14179  Evil Twin Demo crash
  19533  Multiple applications need 'reg.exe' to support 'export' operation
  19626  Half-life engine's software rendering is ridiculously slow
  27528  Half Life Software Rendering completely wrong
  32640  Breath of Fire IV: Mouse is not visible on the installer
  32641  Breath of Fire IV: Crash on starting the game
  35650  CA ERWIN Data Modeler r7.x/8.x installer EULA can't be accepted (RichEdit: missing notification messages to parent for scroll event)
  37837  SteuerSparErklärung 2015: graphics missing when printing with graphics
  37996  Wine mono does not support https connection unless manually imports certification
  38409  Wine's task tray is not shown in the taskbar in KDE 5
  39494  Unused value in ME_RTFTblAttrHook (Coverity #1269505)
  40821  Multiple applications crash with stack overflow when setting IHTMLElement2::accessKey property (Java JRE 8 installer, RealNetworks RealPlayer 18.x)
  43437  Zanzarah game opens a black fullscreen window and then crashes
  45546  Magic The Gathering Arena updater: Unity fork of Mono-runtime reports 'Fatal error in gc, GetThreadContext failed' (suspension of Mono-managed threads sometimes exceed 100ms)
  46048  Crash while installing Neverwinter in Arc (native riched20 is a workaround)
  47296  Google drive crashes before login
  47460  King of Dragon Pass remastered Black Screen
  47970  Legends of Runeterra crashes at launch
  48123  Word 97 crashes after calling stub URLMoniker_ComposeWith
  48391  Dune2000 failed to show anything
  48412  Multiple games have lighting issue and textures blinking (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
  49192  Denuvo Anti-Cheat needs support for NtQuerySystemInformation 'SystemCodeIntegrityInformation' info class (Driver Signature Enforcement)
  49434  Wine builtin 'iexplore' crashes upon loading Google Account login page
  49740  Microsoft Flight Simulator crash after a black screen
  49756  Death Stranding requires windows.gaming.input.dll
  49897  winetricks dotnet45/dotnet452 hangs
  49954  Multiple games and applications need msvcp140_1._Aligned_get_default_resource (EVE Online Launcher, QT Creator 3.x, Kate, Snap Camera 1.11.x, Cppcheck 2.3)
  50054  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Online Multiplayer doesn't work
  50436  Upstream FAudio pkg-config file not found
  50492  Amazon Chime 4.x (.NET 4.5 app) reports 'Failed to InjectErrorHandlingScript, Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'mshtml.HTMLHeadElement''
  50517  Apps with GUI can't work on Apple Silicon Mac
  50673  FlatOut 2 crashes on launch
  50697  Multiple applications crash due to DHTMLEdit 'IOleObject::GetExtent' stub (Atomic Mail Sender 4.2x)
  50725  Nvidia FrameView 1.2 (Win10 app) crashes on unimplemented function tdh.dll.TdhLoadManifestFromBinary
  50742  FAR: Lone Sails is too dark with GL renderer
  50811  gdi32.res fails to compile when freetype pkg-config cflags contain "-pthread"
  50818  Mahou Shoujo Shoumou Sensen - DeadΩAegis (Trial) shows unreadable text in the message box.
  50841  sapi:resource fails on Windows >= 7
  50845  jscript crashes on internal assert(0) in PE build with clang
  50854  Multiple Windows 10 application installers refuse to install, requiring 'advapi32.dll' version >= 6.3.10000.0 (Elgato Stream Deck 4.9.3, Windows Admin Center 2103)
  50858  Regression: Wine doesn't run executables reside under home directory
  50867  wine start /unix stopped working in 6.5
  50873  reg.exe ignores /f parameter
  50874  MUSICUS!: fails to start with "wine: failed to load start.exe: 40000003"
  50875  HTMLElement_get_offsetParent crashes wine if a NULL offset parent is expected (VbsEdit)
  50885  PdfSharp creates invalid PDF files
  50902  HvManager requires websocket.dll
  50904  Altium Designer 17 crashes since wine-6.5
  50905  Wine fails to execute binaries if a dependent placeholder DLL in C:\windows\system32 is missing
  50912  Wine control panel fails to launch applets
  50914  Application specific dll overrides broken since Wine 6.5
  50916  Multiple applications need DHTMLEdit to support 'IOleControl' '{B196B288-BAB4-101A-B69C-00AA00341D07}' (Atomic Mail Sender 4.x)
  50917  Solid Edge 15: Hangs on Save, needs VT_BLOB support when writing properies
  50933  00c4:err:regedit:wWinMain failed to restart 64-bit L"C:\\windows\\system32\\regedit.exe", err 2 (and Wow6432Node key gone)
  50937  mscoree tests fail with "Compilation failed"

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Proton 6.3-2 has been released

 Proton 6.3-2 has been released

 -Fix stuttering mouse cursor issue during longer play sessions.

Link to source code

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