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VKD3D 1.13 Improves Direct3D 12 API Support Atop Vulkan


The Wine project has released VKD3D 1.13 as the newest version of this open-source code for mapping Microsoft's Direct3D 12 API atop the Vulkan API for helping to accelerate Windows games and applications on Linux.

VKD3D remains the upstream Wine project for D3D12 atop Vulkan while Valve's Steam Play (Proton) uses the downstream VKD3D-Proton code. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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