Comment by stonemetal12
6 hours ago
Also of note Valve's Proton only goes back to DX8. Versions prior to that were considered not worth it.
6 hours ago
Also of note Valve's Proton only goes back to DX8. Versions prior to that were considered not worth it.
That's only kind of true; Wine itself supports older versions of DirectX with the target API being OpenGL instead of Vulkan. It's just not quite super performant and kinda buggy. That said, there's other wrappers you can use to convert older DirectX versions into new ones, and if you can get to DirectX 8 or 9, now you've got DXVK.