this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
55 points (100.0% liked)
PC Gaming
14915 readers
123 users here now
For PC gaming news and discussion.
PCGamingWiki
Rules:
- Be Respectful.
- No Spam or Porn.
- No Advertising.
- No Memes.
- No Tech Support.
- No questions about buying/building computers.
- No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
- No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
- No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
- Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates.
(Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources.
If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Didn't vkd3d stand for Vulkan Direct 3D?, a directx reimplementation/translation of proton/wine?
As far as I know, it has always been specifically for Direct3D 12, which makes sense because of that version's design similarities to Vulkan.
DXVK does the same thing for earlier Direct3D versions.
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/raw/master/README
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/refs/heads/master/README.md