I am trying to run Sword with Sauce on my linux laptop. I have it installed through PlayOnLinux using wine 3.0 r6 64bit through steam. The problem when I try to launch the game it tells me I need dx11 level 10 features in order for the engine to work. Does anyone know any way to get around this?
Unless that game is compatible with direct X 10 or lower, unfortunately not. Wine does not support direct X 11 yet. Apparently it uses the Unreal engine so it should be fairly trivial to port to Linux if the Dev wants to.
Thanks for letting me know.
Technically this is no longer true.
Wine 3.0 has initial support for DX11. However I think the catch is that you have to enable it because its not on by default.
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How do I do that?
No clue, I have only read these things in the Wine release notes. I have not done it myself.
One quick search later:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-3.0-RC1-Released
A big change with Wine 3.0-RC1 is that Direct3D 11.0 is now enabled by default on AMD and Intel graphics processors! The D3D11 support in Wine still isn’t completely baked, but it’s working for several Direct3D 11 games like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Prey 2017, Crysis 2 and Witcher 3 to now enjoy under Linux.
So it seems it should be working off the hop if you have AMD or intel Graphics, nVidia will have to be enabled manually, sorry not idea how right now though.
Side note and aditional edit, Man the crawlers work quickly these days. In searching for that above I put “Wine 3.0 DX11 enable” and about 4 or 5 results down on DuckDuckGo was this very post. Pretty cool.
Anyway another back on topic edit. I have not been able to find anything about how to enable it for nvidia cards. I only did a little extra searching but it all talks about AMD and Intel graphics. nothing about nVidia.
One last edit: @Tex it looks like you have an RX480 inwhich case, get Wine 3.0 RC whatever it is now and give it a go it should "Just Work"tm.
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I am trying to get it working on my laptop which has an amd apu in it. It is the amd e2 7110. Sorry I the specs on my profile are for my desktop. Also I am using wine 3.0 rc6.
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Simplest way since you’re not too familiar with CLI is to keep following the RC channel for Wine. Which I’m inferring to be Beta channel for the quickest updates with Direct X11 additions being worked upon.
At this point I will say sorry. I don’t even have linux anything installed at the moment. I just looked it up to see what the news was. I like all this stuff but so far have not even come close to running any of it. Waiting for the next big hardware overhaul before getting linux all set up nice.
Thanks for the help guys.
Linux will always be there when you are ready mate.
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So install the official Wine 3.0 release, not the release candidate. Also a fresh install of Wine 3.0 will default to Windows 7. If your wine Config was set to something like XP or Vista, run wincfg, set the appropriate version of Windows, then run wineboot, and then try again.
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