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D7VK 1.2 released: improves Direct3D 6 front-end in its D3D7 to Vulkan translator, making D3D6 less experimental, enabling more legacy Windows games on Linux with excellent performance over WineD3D (github.com)
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[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not going to take long until Linux is better at running Windows games than Windows itself, especially for older games.

[–] superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

On some hardware and software combinations, this is already true for even recent (2020+) games