• somebody_to_love@lemmy.todayEnglish
    9 hours

    Sorry for the off topic, but I have to share it. I read the title as “DIVX 3.0 released” and I felt super confused, like, what year is this?!

  • TerdFerguson@lemmy.caEnglish
    22 hours

    Translation. Better performance on Linux.

    I will load up Cyberpunk 2077 and judge for myself.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9 hours

        Proton translates D3D12 to Vulkan. So the game runs with Vulkan on Linux.

        • rue@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7 hours

          But DX12 doesn’t use DXVK, it uses VKD3D-Proton.

          • ColdWater@lemmy.caEnglish
            4 hours

            Didn’t vkd3d stand for Vulkan Direct 3D?, a directx reimplementation/translation of proton/wine?

          • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
            7 hours

            Ah, you are right. I didn’t pay attention to this. It even says this in the introduction of the article. Thanks for clearing up.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    22 hours

    Looks like the new dxvk.maxFrameRate is a convenience setting that applies its value to both dxgi.maxFrameRate and d3d9.maxFrameRate. That’s nice for those of us who use it to save power and reduce heat, rather than to work around API-specific renderer bugs.

    Example: export DXVK_CONFIG="dxvk.maxFrameRate=90"

    • Bananskal@nord.pubEnglish
      21 hours

      Quite a curious value, 90 fps. Don’t think I’ve seen a display other than the one on a Pixel 6 phone have a refresh rate of 90 Hz. Maybe they’re more common than I thought.

        • Bananskal@nord.pubEnglish
          10 hours

          You’re right, of course. I’ve had such monitors myself for over a decade. I just didn’t think of that. 😄️

          90 must be some compromise value then, I suppose. I wouldn’t go for that personally as I find 120 is the absolute minimum for some high-paced games. Preferably 240 fps and above. Sometimes I do play Shapez 2 at like 60 fps, because there’s almost no movement on-screen. If I’m working and I’m just idling, waiting for shapes to churn in, I’ll even set it to 30. 😅️

          • who@feddit.orgEnglish
            35 minutes

            The beauty of the setting is that we can choose a different FPS limit for each game, regardless of which API it uses, even if the game doesn’t offer a limiter of its own. 90 is more than enough for a lot of isometric-view games. 180 is helpful in competitive first-person shooters, where every frame is an advantage. 50 or 60 in graphics-intensive turn-based games like Baldur’s Gate 3* lets the art shine while keeping my GPU cool and my power bill relatively tame.

            *BG3 has its own limiter, so in its case, the same can be done without the dxvk setting.

            Also, lower frame rates are generally less noticeable on smaller displays (at any given distance). We can take advantage of this to save money and extend hardware life when not gaming on an IMAX screen.