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== Detailed Description ==
== Detailed Description ==


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DXVK is an alternative to wined3d providing more performant and more compatible way to run Windows applications and games using DirectX 9, 10 and 11.
 
DXVK relies on Vulkan support on GPU. More detailed description is available on DXVK Github page ( https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk ).
 
DXVK is available to users as wine-dxvk package since Fedora 31. wine-dxvk package uses alternatives system for following wine dll files: d3d9, d3d10.dll and d3d11.dll .
 
Should this proposal be accepted, PR ( https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/wine-dxvk/pull-request/4# ) will be merged into wine-dxvk package which ensures it gets set as default backend only on systems with Vulkan support. wine-dxvk will then get added as "Recommends: wine-dxvk" into wine package itself.


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Revision as of 09:42, 21 July 2020

DXVK as default wined3d backend on VK capable hardware

Summary

Proposal to replace defualt wined3d backend by DXVK, A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 33
  • Last updated: 2020-07-21
  • FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
  • Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
  • Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

DXVK is an alternative to wined3d providing more performant and more compatible way to run Windows applications and games using DirectX 9, 10 and 11.

DXVK relies on Vulkan support on GPU. More detailed description is available on DXVK Github page ( https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk ).

DXVK is available to users as wine-dxvk package since Fedora 31. wine-dxvk package uses alternatives system for following wine dll files: d3d9, d3d10.dll and d3d11.dll .

Should this proposal be accepted, PR ( https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/wine-dxvk/pull-request/4# ) will be merged into wine-dxvk package which ensures it gets set as default backend only on systems with Vulkan support. wine-dxvk will then get added as "Recommends: wine-dxvk" into wine package itself.

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

Scope

  • Proposal owners:
  • Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
  • Blocks product? product

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes