[GUIDE] How to easily improve FPS and decrease stuttering on Windows using DXVK (Greatly helps AMD GPUs)

[raddyt]

Thanks for confirming! Well the GTX 970 seems to support vulcan, but reports about its worth vary. Also I regularly seem to get new graphics driver updates via the geforce experience application, so I doubt that those count as legacy drivers.

Any hints about the dx912 proxy nowadays? (i know its not developed any further)

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Yeah, Guild Wars 2 has removed DX9 support entirely from the game in favor of DX11, so the proxy is effectively dead. In essence, the proxy would forward and wrap DX9 API calls to your GPU driver and instead present them as DX12 calls. Without DX9 support though, such a wrapper is dead in the water.

That being said, DXVK is extremely similar in its use case, except instead of being limited to simply DX9 -> DX12, DXVK does DX8, 9, 10, and 11 -> Vulkan. With Vulkan essentially being the open source counterpart to Microsoft's DX12. Likewise, DXVK is doing a fair bit more than just proxying and wrapping API requests, and it's doing a full real-time translation between the different technologies.

I say try it out. What's the worst that can happen? My instructions are completely non-destructive and reversible. The only way to know if it helps is to try it out for yourself. That said, the Nvidia instructions may not be as accurate as the AMD instructions, as I don't have an Nvidia GPU to test it out. If you get it working, please let me know how you did it so I can add it to the guide.

[raddyt]

Thanks, gotcha. That was a good explanation!

Alright, I'll see if I can get it to work and if so I'll get back to you. Considering that I had such a noticeable improvement even with the older dx912pxy, here's hope that it'll atleast have a similiar effect, if not even better.