{"id":375006,"date":"2025-12-29T00:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375006\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:29:11","slug":"d7vk-1-1-released-with-an-experimental-direct3d-6-frontend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375006\/","title":{"rendered":"D7VK 1.1 Released With An Experimental Direct3D 6 Frontend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LINUX GAMING\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/linuxgaming.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nBetween the DXVK and VKD3D(-Proton) projects there is good support for Direct3D 8 through Direct3D 12 implementations atop the Vulkan API for Linux gaming usage. For those preferring more retro classic gaming, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/D7VK-1.0-Released\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D7VK came about more recently for Direct3D 7<\/a> as a DXVK fork. Out today is D7VK 1.1 and besides delivering fixes for its D3D7 implementation has also now tacked on an experimental D3D6 front-end.<\/p>\n<p>D7VK 1.1 adds experimental Direct3D 6 support. D3D6 games can now begin running to varying degrees with D7VK. The developer WinterSnowfall realized after looking at the D3D6 SDK documentation it wouldn&#8217;t be too challenging to add on the new front-end. D3D7 remains the primary focus while D3D6 is an experimental option.&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766968151_595_image.webp\" alt=\"D3D6 Tomb Raider on D7VK\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the experimental D3D6 front-end, D7VK 1.1 brings a number of fixes to allow more Direct3D 7 titles to run nicely with it. More game fixes are planned for future D7VK releases as well as further building out the Direct3D 6 front-end.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the D7VK 1.1 release via <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WinterSnowfall\/d7vk\/releases\/tag\/v1.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between the DXVK and VKD3D(-Proton) projects there is good support for Direct3D 8 through Direct3D 12 implementations atop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-375006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}