Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

• frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For end users, sure. It’s specifically designed as a lower level interface that’s harder for developers to implement.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Windows users use DXVK to boost framerates, it was the solution for making Elden Ring playable it’s first month

    I would say at that point the cost/reward is worth it

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  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True, though for most game/graphics developers you’re never interfacing directly with the graphics API, you’ll let your chosen engine/library do the heavy lifting.

    It does have the downsides of increasing the barrier to entry for custom/bespoke engines but those edge cases seem to be covered well by DXVK.

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• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right? Dude Vulkan has impressed me a bunch lately. I use it for Deadlock and it feels much smoother than the streamers I see using DirectX, which is crazy since Deadlock is super early alpha. More stuff needs to support Vulkan

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  • piccolo@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wait, you got deadlock to work? Mine crashes trying to join a match. (tbf, i haven’t cared enough to dig into why).

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup, runs super smooth out of the box with Proton, and changing to Vulkan in the video settings

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• Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even so, having more software natively supported will always be a good thing. Half the reason why people drag their feet on switching to Linux is because of the lack of support for their favorite software.

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