In early 2022, while DXVK 1.9.3 was the cutting-edge version for translating DirectX 9, 10, and 11 to Vulkan, it suffered from a fundamental design hurdle. When a game needed a new shader, the entire game would freeze momentarily while the shader compiled. This "stutter" broke immersion in fast-paced titles like Apex Legends The "Async" Solution A community developer named became famous for maintaining a fork known as dxvk-async The Patch: Sporif created a specific patch ( dxvk-async.patch ) designed to be applied to the official DXVK source code. The Benefit:
: If using the Async patch, you often need to set an environment variable to activate it. In Steam’s Launch Options, add: DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command% Safety and Source Verification dxvk193tar file download patched
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