The release of the DXVK-Sarek project 1.11.0 has been published, which develops a branch from the DXVK layer aimed at working on systems with GPUs or drivers limited to support for older versions of the Vulkan graphics API — 1.1 or 1.2. In the main DXVK project, support for Vulkan 1.3 became mandatory in the DXVK 2.0 release.
DXVK-Sarek continues to use the codebase of the DXVK 1.10.x branch (the last branch of the DXVK 1.x series), into which changes related to game support and bug fixes from new DXVK releases are being transferred. At the same time, the project is accompanied by a branch called Proton-Sarek, which develops a variant of the package for running Windows games Proton (based on GE-Proton 10 and Proton 10-beta) for devices and systems without Vulkan 1.3 support.
Additionally, the author of DXVK-Sarek recently released the volt-gui 1.0 application, which provides a graphical interface for configuring the parameters of graphics drivers, Mesa, and the Linux kernel to optimize gaming performance in Linux. For example, options are provided for selecting the scheduling mode, managing VSync usage, shader caching, enabling various optimizations, and replacing the information on OpenGL and Vulkan versions.
Furthermore, a significant portion of fixes for older AMD Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs, which precede the HD 5000 Evergreen family, has been accepted into the Mesa codebase, on which release 25.2 is based. One of the fixes has enabled the successful passing of about 120 tests from the Piglit suite, aimed at detecting regressions in OpenGL support.
Source: opennet.ru
