Philip Rebohle has announced the release of a new version of DXVK, a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Overall D3D9 performance improvements
• Improved depth bias implementation in D3D9. This fixes rendering issues like missing shadows and decals in a lot of titles.
• Fixed a bug where some D3D9 games would crash with a divide by zero error on launch
• Fixed incorrect specular rendering in many D3D9 games using Pixel Shader 1.x
• Restored functionality of the dxvk.hud configuration option which was accidentally removed in 1.5. (#1279)
• Tweaked number of threads used for pipeline compilation. This was done to reduce the performance impact on common 6-core and 8-core CPUs while also allowing newer CPUs with more than 12 cores to use more threads.
  Note that this can still be customized with the dxvk.numCompilerThreads option.
• GTA V: Fixed a regression that would cause extremely poor performance when enabling Vsync in full-screen mode (#1314)
• Halo CE: Fixed shield and glass rendering in Halo and Halo CE (#1309)
• Need For Speed: Carbon: Fixed blur effect (#1295)
• Risen 2: Fixed inventory in not rendering (#1290)
• Sims 4: Fixed a crash when changing to/from fullscreen (#1304)
• Trackmania Forever: Fixed crash on startup (#1278)
• Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines: Fixed an issue with the game window being a small box when using fullscreen mode with a non-native resolution.

Download DXVK 1.5.1