Windows release?

[donizettilorenzo]

Nothing for Windows? BTW thanks for your hard work!

[ishitatsuyuki]

There are several blockers for Windows support:

• NVAPI, the primary integration method, is harder to hook on Windows. DXVK-NVAPI does not officially support Windows, so I assume there are compatibility issues with this.
• A lot of Windows apps does not use Vulkan. You might be able to get away with this by using DXVK/forcing vkd3d-proton somehow (note that vkd3d-proton has no intention to support native Windows).

Therefore, Windows support is not on the plan. I will keep this issue open just for clarity.

In the future, I will try to work with game developers to get LFX directly integrated into their games. Windows will be supported for the direct integration.

[jp7677]

About DXVK-NAPI i.c.w. Windows, see https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi/issues/63

[Saancreed]

Side note, but just in case Windows hooking support is ever implemented in the future, having the Wine extension with the exact same name and exports as the layer will make using it much simpler for DXVK-NVAPI and similar integration methods: this way they won't have to be aware whether they are running in Wine or not and just always do

auto lfx = LoadLibraryA("latencyflex_layer.dll");
if (!lfx) { … }
auto lfx_WaitAndBeginFrame = GetProcAddress(lfx, "lfx_WaitAndBeginFrame");
…

which should work both in Wine using the extension and on Windows calling the Vulkan layer directly.

Same with Unity integration, a single [DllImport("latencyflex_layer")] private static extern int lfx_WaitAndBeginFrame(); would take care of Windows, Wine and native Linux.