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…

Is that a beta version? Big brains on Reddit said all the issues would be fixed in a non beta version.

Source? The DX12 improvements will require a lot of changes and would be very unusual to be not included in a beta but included in the final release. Maybe if there is a Beta 2.

580 beta .. Horizon zero dawn… LOL ZERO (pun intended) performance change.

25 FPS in Horizon Forbidden West with a RTX 5090 in 4k without framegen. With framegen about 50 FPS What a joke.

@amrits Also Please look into the shared vram management like in windows. Ontop of the performance regression on dx12 games, the vram management is also poor. In windows the game runs fine but in linux it stuturs like crazy. Steps to reproduce: Pick a vram heavy game like The Last of Us Part 1 A …

I think I can speak for everyone when I say we all have our confetti ready for that moment.

If you want another good test case, then check out Stalker-2, it suffers a whopping %37 hit to performance when compared to Windows, under Linux.

DirectX12 performance is terrible on Linux

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amrits August 5, 2025, 5:44am 432

Hi All,
While looking at Horizon Zero Dawn Linux performance we identified a general optimization that benefits multiple titles with VKD3D. It is still in development. We will give an update when it is available.

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