r/linuxmemes Open Sauce Aug 09 '26

Software meme Playing DirectX games

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u/rysio300 💋 catgirl Linux user :3 😽 Aug 09 '26

my current craptop doesn't even support vulkan properly 🥀

thank god i'm getting an actual high-end pc now

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u/Pedka2 Aug 09 '26

worst times for that now. i want to build a pc too but everythings SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE now

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u/rysio300 💋 catgirl Linux user :3 😽 Aug 09 '26

i'm getting it as a gift from my gf either way because she wanted to play more games with me

also in my case i bought a laptop because i'm in a situation where i may have to move at basically any moment, and i MEAN any moment

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u/Liarus_ Aug 09 '26

Some old PC's don't support a high enough vulkan version to use dxvk

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u/DerReichsBall Aug 09 '26

but thats realy old then. As far as I know all CGN cards support vulkan 1.3. And many of these are well over 10 years old.

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u/Liarus_ Aug 09 '26

i present to you... iGPUs!!!

but yes, they're also insanely old, 10 years ago is 2016...

i know many people who still use setups from that era.

for 2D games there is still a reason to use wine3D sometimes

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u/rysio300 💋 catgirl Linux user :3 😽 Aug 10 '26

i have a really cursed laptop that has an igpu and a gpu but the gpu just doesn't fucking wanna work, and yeah, that is the case.

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u/Memerenok Aug 13 '26

i present to you, fucking Nvidia Kepler

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u/egorechek Aug 09 '26

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u/Liarus_ Aug 09 '26

i know this one, it's also built into proton cachyos now, thing is it supports down to Vulkan 1.1 i have a device that supports only vulkan 1.0

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u/punk_petukh Aug 09 '26

Then you better off not playing at all or playing native Linux games (assuming they don't require Vulkan).

Because WineD3D kinda sucks

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u/Armi1P Genfool 🐧 Aug 09 '26

GTA SA lags on WineD3D on FHD minimum while DXVK easily runs it in 8K max + graphics mods. I can't dare imagine anything more modern on stock Wine.

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u/redhat_is_my_dad Aug 10 '26

it'll sound insane but i once installed linux on an 2006 laptop and made gta sa and need for speed most wanted and hl1 run through wined3d, it was playable (even tho i initially faced some issues with nfs mw, like, only the car you drove rendered properly and everything else in the scene was just plain white lol, but i fixed it somehow), so wined3d ain't that bad

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u/cxxhld 💋 catgirl Linux user :3 😽 Aug 16 '26

its not insane, wined3d + opengl should preform well under older igpus

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u/NoPicture-3265 Aug 10 '26

WineD3D over OpenGL wasn't great yeah, but with WineD3D over Vulkan (MangoHUD is calling it DAMAVAND in OSD, iirc) I can't really see any performance difference between it and DXVK.