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VKD3D 1.17 Released With More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan


VKD3D 1.17 made its debut this morning as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation.

VKD3D 1.17 made its debut this morning as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation. VKD3D is bundled with Wine and the upstream effort compared to Valve's VKD3D-Proton downstream that is shipped by Steam Play (Proton). There have also been some new features implemented for the experimental Metal Shading Language (MSL) target for Apple/macOS.

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