DXVK

And then it's just not a pleasurable experience or a playable experience, in my opinion, right out of the box.

So I went on the... uh, repositories and, and just did the palm act, pulled up the package manager and the GUI and went through and installed, uh, the new version of Vulcan, which was, uh, the DXVK dash bin file.

This installed both the 32 bit and 64 bit version and, uh, some various utilities to check out CL info, of course, CL info package.

And then also, um, GLS Lang for GLX.

I would assume it uses the native Wine DirectX implementation for the rest.

I would be surprised if DXVK couldn't be used here as well.

And the team posted a few videos of some games that run, for example Hollow Knight or The Witcher 3.

32-bit Windows apps will not work, though.

So this is, I guess a bit over eight years ago now.

Beat Saber, Bejeweled 2 Deluxe, Doki Doki, Literature Club, Doom, Fallout Shelter, FF6, which is a random inclusion, Google Earth, obviously Nier Automata, because if you don't know, the story behind DXVK is it was made by the developer because they really wanted to play Nier Automata on Linux.

That is the whole reason we have DXVK.

That list at the time was very short.

Obviously, other games did work.

All I have to do is install certain dependencies for what's called DirectX or the Vulkan aspect of this.

This is DXVK.

And that's kind of another compatibility, much like Wine.

it actually is a compatibility labor with DirectX 10 and 11.

And I go in depth, I'll go ahead and put it up here, but you get those installed, and that video will have it, but it basically is dang near real time.

I'm telling you, my performance is just as good as my Windows box when I get these games working using DXVK.

that's amazing like a lot of my games i just don't have as much crap running in my background i don't have all that overhead of windows all that junk you know i've i've gone through all the reasons why windows sucks i don't have to tell you otherwise you wouldn't be watching this video if you thought windows was just awesome um it's it's just awesome how great it has become like i literally can play most of my games that i love Just like that.

So there are some caveats I want to talk about.

Okay, so let's go ahead and start out.

First thing you need to do is actually install DXVK if you haven't.

Make sure that is installed.

Like I said, check out that video I linked up above if you have problems.

Also, please note, I am using an ultra-wide here, so that's why you see the black lines on the top and bottom.

My resolution is 2540 by 1080.

Also, I enabled some DXVK options.

So what you're seeing in the top left, you're gonna be able to check out my frames per second, all the actual driver settings that I'm currently using as of this recording, which is January 1st or 2nd of 2019.

Okay, so did you look under your seat? Did you find the entire Adobe suite there? Because there is a big project.

It's a custom Wine DXVK and VKD3D implementation patched specifically for supporting Adobe products.

It's called Neutron and it supports Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom Classic, Illustrator, After Effects and Adobe's Media Encoder.

All of these are listed as beta with 4 out of 5 support level, which apparently means they're ready for real work.

So this thing is called Neutron.

It is a patched wine build.

It bundles DXVK, VKD3D Proton.

But you also have Collider, which finds existing installed apps, which checks the wine prefix where everything is installed, and also launches the apps.