WoW + WINE Staging + DXVK + VKD3D Proton = D3D11

[Smoerrebroed]

Hi All,

after a while, I thought I might restart my journey through Azeroth and wanted to revive my sleeping WoW installation. So I updated it to the latest release (via Battle.net).

This is my setup:

• Arch Linux
• nVidia 1080 GPU
• Wayland

In order to get everything up to today's standards (last time I played was on WINE 5.x), I installed

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wine-staging-wow64 9.13

and created a fresh prefix. Then I also installed

• dxvk-bin 2.4
• vkd3d-proton-bin 2.13

and ran their respective setup_ commands.

What I get after starting WoW is (with some additional tinkering) WoW running in D3D11 mode, with no option to select D3D12. When I run

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wine Wow.exe -d3d12

I get a message saying that my GPU is not supported. Any idea what might be wrong here? TIA!

[invisible kid]

Maybe try the same thing, except skip installing DXVK. I believe that's responsible for dx11 support. It may or may not fix your issue, but at least you might force another clue out.

[Smoerrebroed]

Just to clear this up: I am not exactly sure why, but installing dxvk and vkd3d-proton through winetricks did do the trick. Now I have both installed and can switch between D3D11 and D3D12, the latter giving slightly better performance.

[mabian]

Where did you find these?

dxvk-bin 2.4
vkd3d-proton-bin 2.13

Thanks,
Mario

[Smoerrebroed]

They're both available in AUR.