Version 1.11.0 of the DXVK-Sarek project has been released, developing a branch from the DXVK layer aimed at systems with GPUs or drivers limited to supporting older versions of the Vulkan graphics API â 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 from new DXVK releases related to game support and bug fixes are transferred. Simultaneously, a project fork, Proton-Sarek, is maintained, developing a variant 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 version 1.0 of the volt-gui application, providing a graphical interface for configuring parameters of graphics drivers, Mesa, and Linux kernel to optimize game performance on Linux. For example, options are provided to choose the scheduler mode, manage VSync usage, shader caching, enable various optimizations, and override the reported OpenGL and Vulkan version information.
Furthermore, it is noteworthy that a large portion of fixes for older AMD Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs, preceding the HD 5000 Evergreen family, has been accepted into the codebase of Mesa, which forms release 25.2. One of the fixes enabled the successful passage of about 120 tests from the Piglit suite aimed at identifying regressions in OpenGL support.
KĂ€lla: opennet.ru
