Version 0.80

New Features

• Timestamp Query (#138)
• Resource Synchronization based on MTLFence and intrapass barriers (#73)
• UAV Overlap of nvapi (#144)

Improvements and known bug fixes

• HENPRI: fixed crash when loading a save.
• Middle-earth: Shadow of War: fixed infinite hangs on launch.
• Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch: fixed rendering over-exposure.
• Ni no Kuni II Revenant Kingdom: fixed crash on launch. This game may still have rendering issue with clouds in open area.
• Outcast: A New Beginning: fixed glitchy highlighted outline on characters.
• Overwatch 2: fixed missing effects on certain heroes' ability.
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider: fixed z-fighting on character clothes (again).
• Tiebreak: Official game of the ATP and WTA: fixed broken lighting.
• Yakuza series: fixed a potential crash when changing the resolution from the game.
• Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana: fixed crash on launch.
• 逆水寒 (Justice Online): fixed crash on entering game scene (@yuemingruoan).
• TSR in Unreal Engine no longer produces colorful flashing glitches.
• Many in-game benchmarks now report correct GPU time interval values since timestamp query reports true values.

Also there are other known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report. Version v0.81 is planned for more bug fixes.

News

We are changing the license of DXMT from MIT to LGPL. v0.80 will be the last release distributed in MIT license.

We are also planing for v1.0 release in the following months. Check out our roadmap here.

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Full Changelog: v0.74...v0.80

Version 0.74

Improvements and known bug fixes

• Improved MSAA performance, and fullscreen (exclusive) support.
• Gamma support of swapchain by @aquadran.
• NVEXT: more nvapi stubs implemented.
• Unity Engine: fixed a hang when switch from exclusive fullscreen to borderless or windowed.
• Other minor fixes in Tessellation and NVEXT DLSS.

Also there are other known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report.

Full Changelog: v0.73...v0.74

Version 0.73

Improvements and known bug fixes

• NVEXT: more nvapi stubs implemented by @aquadran
• airconv: shader's fast-math behavior is changed a lot in this version, and it is still not the final version (more trade-offs between performance and correctness). Possible side effects (if any, likely good ones) you may get: 1. better or lower performance 2. rendering looks more correct or broken than before. Please do report if you see a regression. We aim to make this more customizable in the future.
• Street Fighter V: fixed wrong tone-mapping due to an unintended clear of stencil buffer.
• Epic Online Services: fixed crashing of any game launched from Epic.
• Umamusume: Pretty Derby: fixed background video not playing in login screen.
• Counter-Strike 2: fixed blank screen when both exclusive fullscreen and MSAA are both enabled.
• Warframe: fixed DLSS not detected by game.
• Alien: Isolation: fixed vertex explosion.
• Stellaris: fixed missing artworks due to missing handling of BGRX8 format, where X component should be read as 1.0.
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps: fixed missing character due to an edge case of current stream output implementation.
• World of Tanks: fixed z-fighting on specific models.
• Deadlock: fixed corrupted MTLFX temporal scaler output.

Also there are other known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report. Version v0.74 is planned for more bug fixes.

Full Changelog: v0.72...v0.73

Version 0.72

Features

• Shared Resources via D3DKMT (#105 by @marzent ) _{NOTE: Wine 10.18+ is required for D3DKMT.}
• Experimental Intel Macs Support (#111) - Specification of Supported Device

Improvements and known bug fixes

• NVEXT: several nvapi stubs implemented by @aquadran
• BeamNG.Drive: fixed dynamic reflections not working
• Warframe: fixed terrain vertex explosion
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord: fixed cloth simulation glitches

Also there are other known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report.

Full Changelog: v0.71...v0.72

Version 0.71

Improvements and known bug fixes

• Fixed a regression where uncached PSO can take seconds to compile due to unoptimized AIR shaders. This significantly reduces stuttering on the first game run.
• Now converted AIR shaders are also cached, along with Metal framework cache (PSO cache), located in $(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/dxmt/<executable name with extension>. This further improves experience for subsequent game launches.
• Fixed crashes on Sonoma due to unsupported Metal 3.2 shader intrinsic functions. On Sonoma they become no-ops which won't lead to a hard crash but can still produce incorrect rendering. Users are advised to upgrade to Sequoia or above.
• Fixed DLSS-SR not working properly if game provides dilated motion vector (typically Unreal Engine game).
• Anno 2070: fixed a crash due to fixed-size command buffer overflow.

Also there are other known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report. Version v0.72 is planned for more bug fixes.

Full Changelog: v0.70...v0.71

Version 0.70

Features

• New Tessellation pipeline implementation based on Metal mesh shaders (#90)

Improvements and known bug fixes

• Fixed missing water/terrain in multiple games due to missing support of indirect tessellation draw.
• Fixed cutscene video not playing in multiple Unity games (#92).
• Fixed hangs on exit in multiple Unity games.
• Baldur's Gate 3 DX11: fixed "Depth of Field Quality - Quarter Denoise" introducing black background due to unmatched shader signature: It is case-sensitive in Metal but not in D3D11.
• Elite Dangerous: fixed the hang at "planet generation" stage because Metal shader compiler is not happy about an unoptimized compute shader with thousands of branches.
• Genshin Impact: fixed a GPU hang when Dynamic Character Resolution is on, due to wrongly implemented sync instruction.
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider: fixed a GPU hang in the benchmark, the same reason above.
• OMORI: fixed dark color due to unintended HDR colorspace.
• Palword DX11: fixed flickering shadows due to a missing UAV write access flag.
• Total War: Rome II DX11: fixed a crash on startup due to missing parameter normalization for resource creation.
• The Medium: fixed abnormal memory consumption caused by heavy tessellation usage, that old tessellation implementation inevitably allocates a lot of temporary buffer.
• Further WoW64 memory improvements.
• Several performance improvements.

Also there are other known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report. Version v0.71 is planned for more bug fixes.

Full Changelog: v0.61...v0.70

Version 0.61

Improvements and bug fixes

• Plenty of bug & conformance issue fixes ¹ and performance improvements (lower memory footprint), particularly for WoW64.

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There are some other known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report.

Version 0.60

Features

• Direct3D 10 implementation (#68)
• HDR and proper color space support (#70)
• D3D11 fence and multithread layer

Improvements and bug fixes

• NV vendor extension is included in this release.

Also there are known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report. Version v0.61 is planned for more bug fixes.

Version 0.51

Improvements and bug fixes

• Reduced random freeze
• WoW64 : reduced memory usage
• American Truck Simulator: fixed missing reflection
• #Drive Rally: fixed distorted rendering when MSAA is enabled
• Euro Truck Simulator 2: fixed terrain flickering
• Grand Theft Auto V Legacy: fixed tessellation
• Split Fiction: fixed crashes when certain levels are loaded
• The Precinct Demo: fixed lighting glitches
• No Rest For The Wicked: fixed a crash on main menu

There are some other known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report.

Version 0.50

Features

• Proper Unix Call implementation (#65)
• 32-bit program support (WoW64 build) (#67)

Improvements and bug fixes

Since this version introduces major refactoring, there aren't many bug fixes for specific game/program.

• Titanfall 2: fix a crash when entering fullscreen mode (#64)

Also there are known issues with this version, and you can view them or report a new issue (as an end-user) at dxmt.report. Version v0.51 is planned for more bug fixes.