DirectX 12 games ran through Proton/Wine on Linux perform so much worse compared to Windows. This can’t be just the overhead from the translation as AMD GPUs perform just fine, but I think it’s due to a lack of proper driver optimizations. DXVK and VKD3D developers have acknowledged this and they c…

Exactly my thoughts. Many of us indeed deeply appreciate the hard work of Nvidia’s Linux team. I’m sure everyone there is accomplishing well beyond what can reasonably be expected, given the limited resources clearly allocated to Linux. I’ve used Nvidia GPUs for 20+ years, including on systems like…

I did exactly the same argument earlier, that in big organisations, disclosure and communication is heavily controlled. And AMD have not even set up a dedicated Linux forum! Now saying there is absolutely no acknowledgement is not entirely true: a few tickets have been filled and @amrits has posted…

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on a good light I think this dx12 issue will be solved this year, I think it might actually be resolved with driver 580, worst case scenario driver 585 I’ve seen that even if they don’t say anything it doesen’t mean that they’re not working on it, for example I’ve made a bug report here some months…

Many thanks for the feedback. Would you know if all these issues are game-specific, and need to be fixed on a case-per-case basis, or can we hope that when you fix it it will propagate to at least some other VKD3D games? Thanks a lot in advance.

A fix for a performance issue found in HZD? That’s great but I found the reply very vague.

[image] kerberizer: management The difference there is that on AMD we don’t have to rely on AMD. There we’ve got the whole stack: AMDGPU MESA RADV DXVK & VKD3D Proton + Wine And then the game itself I’ve seen fixes come from anybody in the above stack, where all the devs are talking to…

DirectX12 performance is terrible on Linux

Graphics / Linux Linux

amrits June 4, 2025, 6:21am 279

I really apologize for not communicating earlier.
Team is currently investigating performance issues, and we do have identified the root cause for Horizon Zero Dawn and are working on a fix.

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