ghost
commented
4 years ago Well looks like it's working all right ... but it doesn't raise the D3D level, it's still at D3D9. DXVK may work differently than D3D8TO9 and similar. Perhaps what I need is something like D3D8TO11 or D3D9TO11 (there is one attempt but unsuccessful), or just wait until profilers support Vulkan properly.
EDIT: The below text is a side comment that's totally unrelated but the lag around the green lines (patriot binary data stream) is what I was trying to debug with the profilers so it was all happening at the same time as with trying DXVK an D3D8TO9 etc.
The picture actually depicts a modified case, the green patriot datalink lines are disabled and thus the lag is completely gone (30FPS instead of 1-5), it was a fairly simple INI workaround, but we're not yet to the bottom why those green lines take so much horsepower.
K0bin
jp7677
WinterSnowfall
This would be like 2-3 FPS with severe slowdown in terms of gamespeed, so it's also lagging the process it self.
doitsujin
Alekc89
Hello
I got as far as I could yesterday to try daisy-chaining but it doesn't look like it'll work out of the box. I'm thinking I must have misunderstood this project, is this meant to be used only on Linux and Wine? The DXVK installation script seems to be meant only for Linux too.
I'm trying to get a better idea of the lag in C&C Generals that has been plaguing everyone for a long time, to be able to help with workaround/fix efforts. However various various profilers and debuggers these days don't support DX9 let alone DX8.1, with the exception of Intel GPA which supports DX9 and that's how I was able to use it so D3D8TO9 does work it for sure.
In a way I may already be happy with just that one, so I might get all the things I need from it, but it kinda uses a legacy simple toolset compared to the modern one with later APIs. I'm just being stubborn as I kinda want this to work as an example and for my own enjoyment/challenge :)
UPDATE1:
I now got rid of the gentool and it's proxy DLL loading feature and tens of other combinations of namings and cleaned out all the experimentation, only placed D3D8TO9's dll as "d3d8.dll" and DXVK's 32-bit "d3d9.dll" into the Generals ZH root, for a long time I haven't seen any indication of it working but later in the evening I noticed a DXVK logfile "d3d9.log" so that's a good sign.
Note: C&C Generals uses child process for the main engine executable called
game.datas other Westwood/EALA games at the time. But it must be started withgenerals.exeor else it won't boot.AMD GPUPerfStudio still reports DX9 is active and won't work since it doesn't support DX9 anyway ... but then again it doesn't support Vulkan either what was I thinking, the thing is from 2015 with last update on 2016 somewhere.
Intel GPA also won't work now, it launches, doesn't crash, but won't work ... now I figure out it doesn't support Vulkan either, what in the hell was I thinking, how the heck did I miss that, because I got the latest version a week ago I thought it should have but yeah I must have mixed that news with RenderDoc being the one adding Vulkan support.
RenderDoc just won't work either, perhaps it's a RenderDoc problem and not DXVK. RenderDoc is not a profiler so it will not help me as much but it would be great to make it run just to prove the point, perhaps it may be useful for other DXVK cases if this problem also affects other daisy-chained games. RenderDoc won't launch the game no matter what I try, it'll just crash the game and even one of it's own components. Lastly the only combination that worked the best so far was injecting it into game.dat which is launched by Thyme. (TheAssemblyArmada's project) It doesn't work but it doesn't crash, game runs normally, but no API is detected and can't do anything really so it's so far useless.