--- title: D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance... description: D7VK 2.0 has been released, bringing significant performance improvements for the Direct3D 7 and earlier implementation built on Vulkan. CPU-limited scenarios... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/d7vk-2-0-released-with-some-nice-performance-improvements-up-to-2x-or-more-mw2yunctu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More | daily.dev og:description: D7VK 2.0 has been released, bringing significant performance improvements for the Direct3D 7 and earlier implementation built on Vulkan. CPU-limited scenarios... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/d7vk-2-0-released-with-some-nice-performance-improvements-up-to-2x-or-more-mw2yunctu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MW2YUncTU.png og:image:alt: D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary D7VK 2.0 has been released, bringing significant performance improvements for the Direct3D 7 and earlier implementation built on Vulkan. CPU-limited scenarios can see up to 2x or more performance gains. Notable examples include Half-Life jumping from 19 to 59 FPS and Toy Story 2 going from 10 to 40 FPS. 3DMark 99 Max and 3DMark 2000 scores also improved substantially. The release includes debug logging optimizations, bug fixes, and pulls in the new DXVK 3.0.2 base. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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