{"id":226634,"date":"2026-03-23T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:30:09","slug":"d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling\/\">D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-23 06:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>D7VK v1.6 is another impressive sounding release for the Direct3D 3, 5, 6 7 to Vulkan translation layer bringing further compatibility improvements for Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The developer mentioned it brings an &#8220;overhaul and cleanup of D7VK&#8217;s interaction with DXVK&#8217;s D3D9 backend, particularly in the area of vertex processing, but also in terms of VSync handling&#8221;. The result should be that it &#8220;technically improve GPU bound performance&#8221; but mostly noticable in benchmarks but certain games like Praetorians will see a nice boost.<\/p>\n<p>Plus a bunch of issues fixed for D3D5 and other assorted bug fixes. Enabling some more early titles to work on Linux with it including DethKarz, Total Annihilation: Kingdoms and Moto Racer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pictured &#8211; Total Annihilation: Kingdoms<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Other noted fixed and additions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tweaked vertex processing mappings, which generally improves performance and addresses various buffer locality issues, fixing crashes seen in Age of Wonders II: The Wizard&#8217;s Throne and Escape From Monkey Island.<\/li>\n<li>Exposed DDCAPS2_FLIPNOVSYNC and flip interval capabilities in DDraw, with proper handling. This has enabled previously greyed out VSync controls in Re-Volt.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a regression in Deathtrap Dungeon, caused by D3D3-D3D5 viewport interoperability.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to @CkNoSFeRaTU, a bug affecting the D3D6 renderer (background color clears in particular) in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit was identified and fixed.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed invalid color key update skipping during SetTexture() calls, which has fixed various color key transparency artifacts in Moto Racer.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a D3D6 specific bug which caused alpha blending states set by the application to be wrongly overridden. This has fixed missing transparency issues in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, Slave Zero and potentially other titles.<\/li>\n<li>Worked around a color keying precision issue in Metal Fatigue.<\/li>\n<li>Handled an oversight in texture re-mapping during swapchain resets. This has fixed occasional texture corruption following mode switches in Vampire:&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-23 06:48:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/tagline_images\/717333820id28701gol.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-226634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226636,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226634\/revisions\/226636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}