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Re:Wine 5.0 by brnt on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:47PM (#22111365)
Proton is a 'distro' of Wine that includes DXVK and is tuned to support games first and foremost. DXVK is a 'regular' Windows program translating DirectX to Vulkan, which makes enables a sort of pass through of that API.
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Re:Wine 5.0 by ufo on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:00PM (#22111505)
Do you know what is the deal with DXVK being separate from upstream WINE?
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Re:Wine 5.0 by brnt on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:19PM (#22111701)
DXVK is a windows program that thus runs on Wine also. It would make sense to include/merge it into Wine at some point, since that is its target, but AFAIK DXVK doesn't even link to anything Wine specific and it thus a completely separate codebase.
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Re:Wine 5.0 by earenndil on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:50PM (#22112033)
DXVK is not intended to be merged into wine. It's written in c++, and prioritizes usability over accuracy.
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Re:Wine 5.0 by brnt on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:16PM (#22112268)
It isn't intended to be merged, but it is intended to be used with Wine. As such, one can envision it being provided by default with Wine.
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