--- title: VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In... description: VKD3D 2.1 has shipped as the upstream Wine component that implements Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan. The release adds HLSL shader language improvements including... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vkd3d-2-1-released-with-new-features-for-direct3d-12-in-upstream-wine-shoadgo4l twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In Upstream Wine | daily.dev og:description: VKD3D 2.1 has shipped as the upstream Wine component that implements Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan. The release adds HLSL shader language improvements including... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vkd3d-2-1-released-with-new-features-for-direct3d-12-in-upstream-wine-shoadgo4l og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SHOadGO4l.png og:image:alt: VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In Upstream Wine 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. # VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In Upstream Wine **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary VKD3D 2.1 has shipped as the upstream Wine component that implements Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan. The release adds HLSL shader language improvements including a dead store elimination pass that better matches the Direct3D compiler's constant table layout, stricter validation, and continued legacy Direct3D bytecode support. The SPIR-V target now supports floating point to 64-bit signed/unsigned integer conversions useful for DXIL sources, alongside improvements to OpenGL shading language target support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What's new in VKD3D 2.1 for Direct3D 12 support in Wine? VKD3D 2.1 adds a dead store elimination pass to its HLSL shader compiler that more closely matches the constant table layout produced by the Direct3D compiler, plus stricter validation. Its SPIR-V target gains floating point to 64-bit signed and unsigned integer conversion operations useful for DXIL sources, and its OpenGL shading language target support was also improved. _Track Wine and VKD3D releases like this one on daily.dev to stay current on Direct3D 12 support on Linux._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan](https://daily.dev/posts/vkd3d-2-0-released-for-wine-s-direct3d-12-implementation-atop-vulkan-ivgboa7pc) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility](https://daily.dev/posts/wine-11-10-released-with-vkd3d-2-0-improved-vbscript-compatibility-iat7h8iqb) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan](https://daily.dev/posts/vkd3d-proton-3-0-1-brings-more-improvements-for-direct3d-12-on-vulkan-bft5rvht5) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [You Can Play Classic D3D7 Games on Linux With This New Project, But Don’t Expect Perfection](https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-play-classic-d3d7-games-on-linux-with-this-new-project-but-don-t-expect-perfection-dqvtilh2a) · It's Foss · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#gaming](https://daily.dev/tags/gaming), [#vulkan](https://daily.dev/tags/vulkan) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/vkd3d-2-1-released-with-new-features-for-direct3d-12-in-upstream-wine-shoadgo4l) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In Upstream Wine","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/vkd3d-2-1-released-with-new-features-for-direct3d-12-in-upstream-wine-shoadgo4l","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/vkd3d-2-1-released-with-new-features-for-direct3d-12-in-upstream-wine-shoadgo4l"},"datePublished":"2026-08-24T10:41:11.438Z","dateModified":"2026-08-24T10:41:36.572Z","description":"VKD3D 2.1 has shipped as the upstream Wine component that implements Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan. 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