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DXVK implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop the Vulkan graphics API for use on Linux. DXVK is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for accelerating Direct3D games on Linux.

DXVK Articles & Reviews

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux Gaming Performance   Processors   2023-03-02
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 / RTX 4090 Linux Performance   Graphics Cards   2023-02-16
Left 4 Dead 2 Vulkan Performance With Radeon Graphics On Linux   Linux Gaming   2021-06-23
OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance For Portal 2 With Radeon Linux Graphics   Linux Gaming   2021-02-20
Mesa 21.0-devel RADV vs. AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Vulkan Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2021-01-13
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance On Mesa 20.1 Looking Good With RADV+ACO   Display Drivers   2020-05-04
NVIDIA RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 SUPER Linux Gaming Performance - 26 GPUs Benchmarked   Graphics Cards   2019-09-26
NVIDIA/AMD Linux Gaming Performance For Hitman 2 On Steam Play   Linux Gaming   2019-05-02
DiRT Rally 2.0 Linux NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon 18-Way Steam Play Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2019-03-04
Mesa 19.0 RADV vs. AMDVLK 2019.Q1.2 vs. Radeon Software 18.50 Linux Vulkan Performance   Linux Gaming   2019-01-17
RadeonSI Gallium3D Made Some More OpenGL Performance Gains This Year   Display Drivers   2018-12-21
16-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Valve's Steam Play For Windows Games On Linux   Linux Gaming   2018-11-06

DXVK Linux & Open-Source News

AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May   Free Software   2026-06-01
Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux   Linux Gaming   2026-05-17
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming   NVIDIA   2026-05-12
D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API   Linux Gaming   2026-04-27
Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play   Valve   2026-04-16
Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play   Radeon   2026-04-14
D7VK 1.7 Brings More Improvements For Legacy Direct3D On Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2026-04-11
Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver   WINE   2026-04-03
D7VK 1.6 Overhauls Interaction With DXVK's D3D9 Backend   Linux Gaming   2026-03-22
D7VK 1.5 Released With Direct3D 3 Now Implemented Over Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2026-03-11
Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option   Linux Gaming   2026-02-16
D7VK 1.3 Brings Support For Direct3D 5 On Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2026-02-08
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 Released With New Override & Improvements   Linux Gaming   2026-01-24
D7VK 1.2 Released For Improving Direct3D 6 Front-End   Linux Gaming   2026-01-15
Mesa 26.0 RADV Lands Dedicated Transfer-Only Queue Using SDMA   Radeon   2026-01-09
FEX 2601 Brings Various Fixes, Improvements For Wine & DXVK/VKD3D-Proton   Free Software   2026-01-07
Radeon Linux Driver Enhancements, Linux 6.19 Activity & Other December Highlights   Phoronix   2026-01-02
The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025   Mesa   2025-12-30
D7VK 1.1 Released With An Experimental Direct3D 6 Frontend   Linux Gaming   2025-12-28
The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025   Intel   2025-12-25
D7VK 1.0 Released For "Production Ready" Direct3D 7 On Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2025-12-11
Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0   Mesa   2025-12-05
VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support   Valve   2025-11-17
Proton 10.0-3 Released For Steam Play With Dozens Of Fixes, More Games Working   Valve   2025-11-13
D7VK Aims To Deliver Direct3D 7 Atop Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2025-11-07
Mesa NVK Lands Support For VK_NVX_image_view_handle - Needed For NVIDIA DLSS   Nouveau   2025-10-16
Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver   Mesa   2025-10-14
Hangover 10.14 Released With Updated FEX, Box64 & DXVK   WINE   2025-09-07
DXVK 2.7.1 Delivers Improved Performance For Some Direct3D 9 Titles   Valve   2025-08-30
Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July   Phoronix   2025-08-01
Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming   Valve   2025-07-29
DXVK 2.7 Released With Many Improvements & Better Support On Newer Intel GPUs   Linux Gaming   2025-07-05
DXVK 2.6.2 Released For Direct3D On Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2025-06-10
Mike Blumenkrantz Axes Old Mesa Code: Goodbye Gallium Nine   Mesa   2025-05-24
Valve Releases Updated Proton 10.0 Beta For Testing   Valve   2025-05-06
Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux   Valve   2025-04-29
Gallium Nine Has Been Deprecated, Planned For Removal In Mesa 25.2   Mesa   2025-04-10
DXVK 2.6.1 Released With More Bug Fixes & Performance Optimizations   Valve   2025-04-07
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9 Brings New Features For NVIDIA GPUs With Valve's Steam Play   Valve   2025-03-16
DXVK 2.6 Released With NVIDIA Reflex Support, Numerous Improvements   Valve   2025-03-13
NVIDIA RTX Remix 1.0 Released With DXVK DLSS4 & Neural Radiance Cache   NVIDIA   2025-03-13
Hangover 10.0 Released For Running Windows Games/Apps On ARM64 Linux   WINE   2025-01-28
Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI   WINE   2025-01-21
DXVK 2.5.3 Brings More Fixes For Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 On Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2025-01-13
Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4   Mesa   2024-12-30
DXVK 2.5.2 Brings Fixes & Optimizations For Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 Atop Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2024-12-20
VKD3D-Proton 2.14 Released With New Features For D3D12 On Vulkan   Valve   2024-12-13
Proton 9.0-4 Released To Improve More Windows Games On Linux   Valve   2024-12-11
NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build   NVIDIA   2024-12-05
NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.6 Brings CPU/GPU Performance Improvements   NVIDIA   2024-12-03
Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements   Linux Gaming   2024-12-01
DXVK 2.5.1 Released To Fix A Major Regression & Other Bugs   Linux Gaming   2024-11-18
DXVK 2.5 Brings Memory Management Rewrite & Other Improvements   Virtualization   2024-11-11
NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D   NVIDIA   2024-10-22
Apple Silicon On Linux Now More Capable For Gaming With Latest Mesa + Steam On FEX   Apple   2024-10-10
DXVK 2.4.1 Released With Many Improvements, More Robust Direct3D 8   Linux Gaming   2024-09-26
Valve's Proton 9.0-3 Brings Support For More Games On Linux, Many Fixes   Valve   2024-09-19
Mesa's Gallium3D Direct3D 9 "Nine" State Tracker To Be Retired   Mesa   2024-08-29
Open-Source Apple GPU Vulkan Driver Merged For Mesa 24.3   Mesa   2024-07-27
DXVK 2.4 Released With Direct3D 8 Support, Native WSI Improvements   Vulkan   2024-07-10
Direct3D 8 Support "D8VK" Merged Into DXVK   Linux Gaming   2024-07-07
Valve Rolls Out Proton 9.0-2 With Many Fixes For Running More Games On Steam Play   Valve   2024-06-12
"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver   Apple   2024-06-05
Box64 0.2.8 Released With Support For 16K Page Size - Allowing Games On Apple Silicon   Linux Gaming   2024-05-22
AMDVLK 2024.Q2.1 Driver Adds Phoenix 2 APU Support   Radeon   2024-05-15
Proton 9.0-1 Released With Many Improvements For Steam Play Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2024-05-02
NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.5 Released For Remastering Old Games   NVIDIA   2024-04-30
Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Implements Extended Dynamic State - Important For DXVK   Raspberry Pi   2024-04-29
NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance   Nouveau   2024-04-23
DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs   Linux Gaming   2024-03-20
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex   Valve   2024-03-15
NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver   Nouveau   2024-03-09
Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found   Valve   2024-02-29
Proton 9.0 Beta Makes More Games Playable Under Steam Play, Updates VKD3D-Proton & DXVK   Linux Gaming   2024-02-23
Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play   Vulkan   2024-02-16
Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android   Mesa   2024-02-04
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable   Valve   2024-01-22
NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.4 Released With Updated DXVK, Performance Improvements & Fixes   NVIDIA   2024-01-22
AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023   AMD   2024-01-01
Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023   Phoronix   2023-12-27
Intel Fixes Up Baldur's Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics   Intel   2023-12-22
Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series   Radeon   2023-11-09
Lutris 0.5.14 Released For Better Managing Your Games On Linux   Linux Gaming   2023-10-20
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor   Valve   2023-10-18
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-4 As A Big Improvement For Windows Gaming On Linux   Valve   2023-10-05
Mesa 23.3 Will Enable More Efficient MSAA Anti-Aliasing Use With Radeon RDNA3 GPUs   Mesa   2023-10-03
AMDVLK 2023.Q3.3 Released With Radeon RX 7700 / 7800 Series Support   Radeon   2023-09-29
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community   Valve   2023-09-22
VKD3D-Proton 2.10 Released With More Performance Improvements, Game/Driver Workarounds   Valve   2023-09-11
DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 Implements HDR Support Via DXVK   Valve   2023-09-09
DXVK 2.3 Brings Presentation Improvements, More Game Fixes, "hideNvidiaGpu" Option   Valve   2023-09-04
CrossOver 23 Enables EA App On Linux, Many Fixes   Linux Gaming   2023-08-16
Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted   Linux Storage   2023-08-13
NVK Merge Request Opened For Landing Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver In Mesa   Nouveau   2023-07-26
Proton 8.0-3 Released With More Windows Games Running On Linux, Fixes   Valve   2023-07-21
What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023   Phoronix   2023-06-30
RADV Lands Fragment Shader Interlock Support - Useful For Emulators, DXVK & VKD3D   Radeon   2023-06-26
Vulkan 1.3.254 Published With Another Extension Drafted By Valve   Vulkan   2023-06-16
RadeonSI ACO Code Lands More Functionality   Mesa   2023-06-04
Mesa "Terakan" Driver Aims To Provide Vulkan Support For Old Radeon HD 6000 Series   Radeon   2023-05-19
DXVK 2.2 Released With D3D11On12 Support, Many Game Fixes   Valve   2023-05-12
NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.2 Released + Remix Runtime Bridge Open-Sourced   NVIDIA   2023-05-12
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Enables GPL By Default While Hiding Mesh Shaders   Intel   2023-05-10
D8VK v1.0 Released For Running Direct3D 8 Games Atop Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2023-05-10
AMDVLK 2023.Q2.1 Brings Mesh Shaders, Several New Vulkan Extensions   Radeon   2023-04-19
Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Graphics Pipeline Library Support   Intel   2023-04-18
Proton 8.0-1 Published With More Games Now Running On Steam Play   Valve   2023-04-17
Renewed Work For ACO Compiler Support With The RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver   Radeon   2023-04-17
NVIDIA RTX-Remix 0.1 Released For Adding Path Tracing To Classic Games   NVIDIA   2023-04-12
RADV Sees Experimental Fragment Shader Interlock - Important For Emulators, D3D12   Radeon   2023-04-04
Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights   Phoronix   2023-04-02
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1   Phoronix   2023-03-31
FEX 2303 Released For Improving Linux x86_64 Gaming On ARM64   Linux Gaming   2023-03-06
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-02-28
Proton 7.0-6 Released With More Windows Games Playable On Linux   Valve   2023-02-03
Intel Highlights Their Progress On Arc Graphics Drivers Since Launch   Intel   2023-02-01
Wine 8.1 Picks Up Vulkan HDR Extension For Helping With Valve's HDR Gaming Enablement   WINE   2023-01-26
DXVK 2.1 Released With HDR Support, Many Game Improvements   Vulkan   2023-01-24
AMD's GPUOpen Announces ADLX Library But For Now It's Windows-Only   Radeon   2022-12-14
Linux Adding New Control Since Its Splitlock Detector Is Wrecking Some Steam Play Games   Linux Kernel   2022-12-13
AMDVLK 2022.Q4.3 Vulkan Driver Released With More Performance Tuning   Radeon   2022-12-09
AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November   Phoronix   2022-12-01
DXVK-NVAPI 0.6 Released With DLSS Fixes, Other NVIDIA Enhancements   Linux Gaming   2022-11-30
Proton 7.0-5 Gets More Games Running On Linux & The Steam Deck   Valve   2022-11-23
RADV Wires Up VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer, VKD3D-Proton Usage Pending   Mesa   2022-11-21
Box64 0.2 Gets DXVK 2.0 Running, Many Other Improvements For Emulating x86_64 On Arm   Linux Gaming   2022-11-17
DXVK 2.0 Released With Many Improvements For Direct3D Over Vulkan   Linux Gaming   2022-11-10
AMDVLK 2022.Q4.2 Brings More Performance Tuning   Radeon   2022-11-10
Arc Graphics, Google KataOS, Python 3.11 & Linux 6.1 Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts   Phoronix   2022-11-01
Proton 7.0-5 RC Gets More Windows Games Running On Linux   Valve   2022-10-17
VirtualBox 7.0 Released - Full VM Encryption Support, Direct3D Acceleration Using DXVK   Virtualization   2022-10-10
Mesa's Turnip Now Advertises Vulkan 1.3 Support   Mesa   2022-09-22
Amazon Engineer Adds LTR Encode Support To Open-Source AMD Radeon Linux Driver   Radeon   2022-09-19
Steam On Linux Marketshare Crawls Up To 1.27% For August 2022   Valve   2022-09-01
Proton 7.0-4 Released For Steam Play With Many Game Fixes, More Playable Titles   Valve   2022-08-16
Vulkan 1.3.224 Introduces Another New Extension To Help Valve's Steam Play   Vulkan   2022-08-04
DXVK 1.10.3 Released With Shared Fences - Needed By Halo Infinite On Linux   Linux Gaming   2022-08-02
DXVK 1.10.2 Released With Many Game Fixes, Performance Optimizations   Vulkan   2022-07-13
Proton 7.0-3 With More Games Running Well On Linux, Experimental Preps More Changes   Valve   2022-06-14
Vulkan 1.3.217 Adds Extension To Interact With Apple Metal Objects   Vulkan   2022-06-09
Wine 7.10 Brings 56 Fixes, Proton 7.0-3 RC Prepared With Support For More Games   WINE   2022-06-04
Red Hat Experimenting With "NVK" Nouveau Open-Source Vulkan Driver   Nouveau   2022-06-02
XWayland Adds New Option To Expose Dummy Modes For Gamescope / Steam Deck   Wayland   2022-05-20
Proton 7.0-2 Released For Getting More Windows Games Running On Steam Play   Valve   2022-04-21
DXVK 1.10.1 Released With Initial Support For Shared Resources, Game Fixes   Linux Gaming   2022-03-26
Google Finally Announces Steam For Chrome OS   Google   2022-03-15
DXVK-NVAPI 0.5.3 Released To Improve NVIDIA API Integration For Games On Steam Play   Valve   2022-03-06
DXVK 1.10 Released With More Performance Improvements   Linux Gaming   2022-03-04
Amazon Officially Launches Luna In The US - Limited Linux Support   Linux Gaming   2022-03-01
AMDVLK 2022.Q1.3 Vulkan Driver Released With A Few Fixes   Radeon   2022-02-23