[Feature] [€40] [IW5] DX9 to Vulkan dll (High FPS BOOST)

[SadSlothXL]

SadSlothXL Contributor last edited by SadSlothXL

Hello,

I recently came across a dll that converts DX (direct X) games to Vulkan and wanted to try it out in plutonium because AMD GPUs are notorious for poor performance in old DX9 titles.

As you can see below there is a significant performance (FPS) increase while using Vulkan on iw5, the only issue currently is while using the dll starting iw5 may not load for multiple tries due to an error occurring. When trying to get these screen shots me and some friends had to keep starting the game for up to 30+ times while in LAN mode.

If this can be added to plutonium or the error is fixed I will donate €40.

Error code: (0xc000007b)

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Here is the github link for the dll.
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

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I have also made some concept art of how this can be add to the launcher visually.

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My Comparisons (All taken in LAN mode)

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PC Specs:
R5 3600
AMD 6600XT
32gb @3733
Win 10, Build 19045

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[Tqhr]

Tqhr last edited by Tqhr

Here are my test results

PC Specs:
I7-13700K
RX 6900XTU
32gb @4133
Win 11, Build 22000

[snxpzz_]

snxpzz_ last edited by

would be nice to see if it had an impact on NVIDIA cards, other than that honestly a good idea since I have a low-end card myself

[RETR0 EDIT]

RETR0 EDIT last edited by

@Tqhr 1080p ?

[Lil Stick]

Lil Stick Contributor last edited by Lil Stick

I will also be willing do add another €40 onto this for all my AMD peeps

[RedxSkull]

RedxSkull last edited by

Vulkan is the future with noticeable performance.

[VanillaPWNZ]

VanillaPWNZ last edited by VanillaPWNZ

Now my results

PC Specs:
R3 3100
RX 6600
16gb @2400
Win 10 Build 19042

[Xerxes]

Xerxes Plutonium Staff Staff last edited by

I used to play Pluto for the longest time using DXVK, you can thank the cheaters (like with most things) for destroying that since they abused ******* to load cheats through the signed DX9 replacement dll.
Personally I would love to have Vulkan back and virtually any card with support for it gains performance as long as it has no problem with asynchronous computing (looking at team green here with some older cards).

[cribsy]

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[cribsy]

cribsy Contributor last edited by cribsy

i will be adding 16 CAD (11€) to see this get support with plutonium.

Here are my results


PC Specs:
Ryzen 5 5500
RX 570
8gb @2133
Win 10, Build 19044

[GhostRider0125]

GhostRider0125 last edited by

would this work for other 3 cods or they have it different

[SadSlothXL]

SadSlothXL Contributor last edited by @ GhostRider0125

@GhostRider0125 yep as they all use DX9

[SimplyCody]

SimplyCody Contributor last edited by @ SadSlothXL

@SadSlothXL Give them about 3 years to support this they need to fix t5 first

[GhostRider0125]

GhostRider0125 last edited by

alright

[Tqhr]

Tqhr last edited by @ Xerxes

@Xerxes https://github.com/Sporif/dxvk-async im not too knowledgeable about this topic myself but is this what you were referring to?

Oh also, may i ask if its fine for the time being to use the DLL while playing online?

We are not injecting anything, we are only putting the x32 d3d9.dll in the pluto BIN folder and re-launching the game until it stops giving the error message. If it could result in a ban then of course we wont, thank you.

[RedxSkull]

RedxSkull last edited by @ Tqhr

@Tqhr He just stated why plutonium doesn't use DXVK. Cheaters abused it. Maybe in the future they will add their own support for Vulkan without cheaters ruining it for everyone.

[Tqhr]

Tqhr last edited by @ RedxSkull

@RedxSkull yes i have read what he said. My question comes from the fact that you do not need to use any injectors to make it work. You simply put it inside the BIN folder.

[RedxSkull]

RedxSkull last edited by @ Tqhr

@Tqhr You can cheat with the .dll without injecting. A lot of ways to cheat now of days.

[Xerxes]

Xerxes Plutonium Staff Staff last edited by

Please don't put words into my mouth,
all I did was to describe why it isn't allowed anymore in online mode.
Also DXVK was (afaik) not used to load cheats however other DX9 Libraries were used to do so.
The async statement is more regarding who is seeing an uplift while using DXVK, DXVK already does (did?) include asynchronous rendering.

[VanillaPWNZ]

VanillaPWNZ last edited by @ Xerxes

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