DX12 to Vulkan MOD for older GPUs on Windows

[mirh]

SO Tried on Ubuntu 22.0.4 everything updated. on lutris if i don't add 3 dll's to game i just get black screen. When i add
dll's to game it starts looks like it's working fine but when i start new game all i get is this 1960 looking dress patterns.

Avoid debian-based distros if you actually want the latest and shiniest drivers.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/10060#note_2152727
In fact, you may even want to be running mesa-git

Now you will need to run as administrator sde.exe shortcut on desktop and game will run.

I don't think the admin requirement is truly needed?

 

[Nova8888]

sde.exe didn't work for me but thanks anyways.

 

[Lordofhell]

I don't think the admin requirement is truly needed?

Mine is not working without admin, sde runs and closes immediately.

sde.exe didn't work for me but thanks anyways.

What is your CPU ?

 

[Nova8888]

Mine is not working without admin, sde runs and closes immediately.


What is your CPU ?

old cpu ryzen 5 3600

 

[Lordofhell]

old cpu ryzen 5 3600

I don't think intel emulator works for AMD CPU's.
Your CPU supports AVX2 and all essentials for this game and it's not that old, what I am talking here is intel's 11 years old CPU.
As I know people are able to play game with R5 3600 CPU.

 

[freeman94]

nvidia release some drivers hotfix 546.08, there is some alan wake fix, curious if it changes anything but need testing.

This hotfix addresses the following issue:
[Alan Wake 2] Addressing gradual stability and performance degradation over extended periods of gameplay [4334633]
Windows 10 transparency effects are not displaying correctly after driver update [4335862]
Random Bugcheck may be observed on certain systems [4343844]

 

[izy]

old cpu ryzen 5 3600

The R5 3600 has AVX2 so you dont need that and i think that program will only work for intel anyway, CPUs without AVX2 are older than Haswell processors (only Core and Xeon branded), Q2 2013 / Haswell E processors, Q3 2014 from Intel and older than Excavator processor, Q2 2015 / Zen processors, Q1 2017 for AMD.

nvidia release some drivers hotfix 546.08, there is some alan wake fix, curious if it changes anything but need testing.

This hotfix addresses the following issue:
[Alan Wake 2] Addressing gradual stability and performance degradation over extended periods of gameplay [4334633]
Windows 10 transparency effects are not displaying correctly after driver update [4335862]
Random Bugcheck may be observed on certain systems [4343844]

Interesting , its not up yet on TPU, im on 546.01.
Without the MOD im getting some freezes ( for 10 sec or so) sometimes when i finish a chapter or loading new zone , not sure if its a driver problem , game problem or because my GPU is slightly undevolted but i think i was getting them without any undervolt/OC too, the game is installed on a SSD .. but when checking i see SSD Active time 100% but reads and writes are 0 when the freeze happens.

 

[Fastick]

RTX 2070
+DLDSR 1.78 (1440p)
+DLSS 720p
~55 fps in certain scene.

Vulkan mode:
+DLDSR 1.78(1440p)
+FSR 720p (Dont have DLSS option with vulkan mode)
~75 fps in same scene.


Magic exist

 

[izy]

RTX 2070
+DLDSR 1.78 (1440p)
+DLSS 720p
~55 fps in certain scene.

Vulkan mode:
+DLDSR 1.78(1440p)
+FSR 720p (Dont have DLSS option with vulkan mode)
~75 fps in same scene.


Magic exist

With my RTX 2060 Super (basically an RTX 2070) i didnt noticed such a big fps uplift, ill try using same settings as you , what ingame settings are you using? It looks interesting the combination with DLDSR What version of the MOD are you using?
Edit: Tested with "DX2Vulkan - gplasync" and im only getting 2 -3 extra FPS in the same scene but with the ingame settings on medium / high.

 

[aswerok228]

GTX 1080 TI MSI Gaming X and i5 12400f. Almost x2 frames. (High settings, FSR Quality). In some more "heavy" scenes from 15 fps to 25.

 

[asira_rulz]

This doesn't work on 5700XT right?

 

[Fastick]

Spoiler

DX2Vulkan.zip
Tested when Alan is in subway.

Spoiler

 

[izy]

Spoiler

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DX2Vulkan.zip
Tested when Alan is in subway.

Spoiler

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I see , my GPU is TDP limited , i see that with the MOD you GPU goes up to 220W and only 190W in DX12 , my card is limited at 175W but i undervolted it with the curve and im getting almost same frequency as you.

Click here to download the GeForce Hotfix display driver version 546.08 for Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64. (found the patch)
[Alan Wake 2] Addressing gradual stability and performance degradation over extended periods of gameplay [4334633]

nvidia release some drivers hotfix 546.08, there is some alan wake fix, curious if it changes anything but need testing.

This hotfix addresses the following issue:
[Alan Wake 2] Addressing gradual stability and performance degradation over extended periods of gameplay [4334633]
Windows 10 transparency effects are not displaying correctly after driver update [4335862]
Random Bugcheck may be observed on certain systems [4343844]

It didn't change anything for me, it wasnt something I could notice at least and I played it for ~2 hours.

 

[3d_space_pinball]

Well, no luck on the Radeon VII. Even on the brand new 23.11.1 drivers the game is missing about 20% of the textures in Dx12 mode. Runs ~27/14/9 FPS at 1080/1440/4k (max settings) but the card isn't being used, barely 60-70% utilization and only drawing 120-170W of power.

Tried every combo of dxvk with old supported drivers and the Mesa driver per application (didn't want to try system wide). All on Windows. Man that was a headache. Wouldn't launch at all without Mesa, with Mesa I got about 4 seconds into the main menu before crashing.

 

[dany00711]

for me on 1050 ti playable ok i think 17 fps max but no problem with trainer movement speed is no problem.

 

[iameatingjam]

I tried dxvk on a dx11 game ( iron harvest) as it was maxxing out a single cpu thread and I was hoping vulkan might even it out a little. But unfortunately 90% of the time it would crash before I could get into game. The one time I was able to get into game, like half of every texture was black. And thats about the extent of my experience, though I hear it runs better on linux.

 

[Ashalanti]

Won't work on my pc (1070 msi gs65 RF) some versions give me black screens while others just crash after seconds of black screen. Without the mod i get around 23fps which for this game's pipeline is literally slowmo... I have obviously tried every single advice that I've found here but to no avail and this is the only thread i found on the Internet discussing alan wake 2 on vulkan.
Lets hope someone knows enough about this to identify the issue down the line.

 

[izy]

I tried dxvk on a dx11 game ( iron harvest) as it was maxxing out a single cpu thread and I was hoping vulkan might even it out a little. But unfortunately 90% of the time it would crash before I could get into game. The one time I was able to get into game, like half of every texture was black. And thats about the extent of my experience, though I hear it runs better on linux.

I havent added the libs for DX11 but you can download them from this archive https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases or https://gitlab.com/Ph42oN/dxvk-gpla...es/dxvk-gplasync-v2.3-1.tar.gz?ref_type=heads and put them into the game folder.

Won't work on my pc (1070 msi gs65 RF) some versions give me black screens while others just crash after seconds of black screen. Without the mod i get around 23fps which for this game's pipeline is literally slowmo... I have obviously tried every single advice that I've found here but to no avail and this is the only thread i found on the Internet discussing alan wake 2 on vulkan.
Lets hope someone knows enough about this to identify the issue down the line.

I have no idea , it should work as it works for others with NVIDIA GTX 10 series cards , can you share the log - AlanWake2_dxgi.log ? Maybe we can find the problem there. Did you try all 3 versions of DX2Vulkan? Be sure you dont have any OVERLAYS enabled.

 

[freeman94]

new patch release today 1.0.9

 

[iameatingjam]

I havent added the libs for DX11 but you can download them from this archive https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases or https://gitlab.com/Ph42oN/dxvk-gpla...es/dxvk-gplasync-v2.3-1.tar.gz?ref_type=heads and put them into the game folder.

Thanks. But I'm pretty sure thats the one I used, unless there's been some big changes in the last couple months.

 

[izy]

new patch release today 1.0.9

"Update 1.0.9 doesn’t bring any enhancements to the Path Tracing effects, and it doesn’t make the game run better either. That’s why I said it’s a small update. So, temper your expectations, everyone." anyway ive finished the game , its was fun.

 

[riiching]

I can't seem to get it working on my 1080 TI, it crashes on startup, I've disabled NVIDIA overlay and I'm on the latest drivers, here's the log if anyone can help me figuring this out, thanks

 

[izy]

I can't seem to get it working on my 1080 TI, it crashes on startup, I've disabled NVIDIA overlay and I'm on the latest drivers, here's the log if anyone can help me figuring this out, thanks

Have you tried all the versions? Reinstall your drivers? Delete the cache each time you replacing the MOD , vkd3d-proton.cache in the game folder.
If you are using the last version ive added ( DX2Vulkan - gplasync) you can try to to add this in the dxvk.conf , you can try with False and True, also you can try to delete the dxvk.conf from the folder and see if it will work without it.

dxgi.hideNvidiaGpu = False
dxgi.emulateUMA = False

 

[riiching]

I've tried all the versions and no chance, also without the dxvk.conf, does it matter if I launch it through the EGS or the .exe? Also can the EGS overlay cause some issues?

EDIT: here's my folder

 

[izy]

I've tried all the versions and no chance, also without the dxvk.conf, does it matter if I launch it through the EGS or the .exe? Also can the EGS overlay cause some issues?

Any overlay can cause issues , you should try to use the .exe, dont use any launchers.