Version 0.30 - Froglet 🐸🍼

Smol frogs be like: ᵣᵢᵦᵦᵢₜ ᵣᵢᵦᵦᵢₜ 🐸🍼

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Features

• Rebased upon latest DXVK 1.4.4! 🐸🎉
• Improved performance when locking D3DPOOL_DEFAULT textures via. dirty tracking to avoid unnecessary waiting and copies.
• Improved performance by avoiding throwing out D3DUSAGE_DYNAMIC buffers on unlock.
• Allow DISCARD on non-D3DUSAGE_DYNAMIC resources, which may improve perf in some cases (mirrors native behaviour.)
• Other misc. locking changes.
• Implemented D3DRS_POINTSIZE, D3DRS_POINTSIZE_MIN, D3DRS_POINTSIZE_MAX, D3DRS_POINTSCALE_A, D3DRS_POINTSCALE_B, D3DRS_POINTSCALE_C, D3DRS_POINTSCALEENABLE and D3DRS_POINTSPRITEENABLE.
• Implemented D3DRS_SHADEMODE.
  • Fixes some GameMaker titles.
• Implemented shader predication (experimental).
• Compressed down and improved normalization of fixed function shader keys.
• Implemented a new, more efficient method of hazard tracking enabled for all titles.
  • Removes the now-redundant d3d9.hasHazards option.
• Improved perf. by respecting access type across all of WaitForResource.
• Improved perf. by checking for resource usage before before syncing with the thread in WaitForResource. (mirrors D3D11 change)
• Faked AMD for CS:GO to bypass NVAPI
  • Note: You still cannot play CS:GO with D9VK or Proton w/ VAC due to signature checks! (You will be dumped into -insecure on launch.)
• Improve perf by removing duplicate blend state sent to the CS.
• Generate adapter LUIDs when Vulkan does not provide them.
• Spoof device/vendor for Halo 2
  • Fixes it falling into an invalid render path on some systems where it'd render degenerate tris for fullscreen passes.
  • Fixes it showing annoying unsupported driver/device messages on startup.

Bug Fixes

• Implemented d3d9.invariantPosition option.
  • Enabled this for Halo 2, as otherwise imprecision messes up depth test on NV.
• Disabled D3DLOCK_DISCARD and D3DLOCK_NOOVERWRITE for anything other than D3DPOOL_DEFAULT pool
  • Fixes flickering in Halo CE.
• Retry setting display mode without frequency if it fails.
  • Fixes Battlefield 2 CTD.
• Respected projection texture stage flag in PS 1.x
  • Fixes Psychonauts' video projections and shadows in some older titles.
• Apply given swizzle to texture sample ops.
  • Affects a lot of games, pretty silly oversight on my behalf.
• Disabled alpha test if alpha to coverage is active.
  • Fixes the spoopy ghosty people in Alan Wake 2.
• Zero-initialized output registers that get used
  • The Sims 2 sometimes only writes to .x of them, but reads .yzw and expects 0.
• Fixed a bug where StretchRect would fail if the dst sample count was != 1.
  • Fixes Anno 1404 and Halo 2's player customizer notably.
• Fixed handling of Z extent with POSITION_T, notably wrt. depth testing being enabled.
  • Fixes Manhunt.
• Use VK_BLEND_FACTOR_ONE when with an X8 render target and wanting to get DESTALPHA/INVDESTALPHA.
• Try-catch all of Present, not just the presentation.
  • Fixes a bug where if recreation failed the application would crash.
• Fixed the return value for failed presentations.
• Set the driver version to INT64_MAX rather than UINT64_MAX.
  • Some games, such as Halo 2, interpret this as signed data.
• Fixed a bug where multiple mips were exposed in RT views causing validation errors.
• Fixed the wrong view being used in the generateMipMaps call.
• Default invalid/OOR blend factors to ZERO rather than ONE
  • Fixes lighting in Payday 2.

Notes

Please do not use wine's d3d9x or d3dcompiler with d9vk. They make invalid API calls and generate bad shaders. I cannot stress this enough.

If you are compiling with MinGW, please use the dwarf2 exception patch to improve performance.

Acknowledgements

• ドイツ人 (doitsujin): for creating the base of the project, DXVK
• Rhedox and CME: for helping with debugging
• VKx and Frog Family Discords: for helping with testing
• You: for your love and support and helping me get to where I am today! ❤

Thank you and Enjoy! <3

- Josh 🐸 ❤️ ~