DXVK requirements and the right version for your GPU

Which DXVK version should I use?

The picker follows a fixed order: platforms with no choice first (Steam Deck, Android, macOS), then GPUs that cannot run DXVK, then your driver, then known caveats, then the newest release your GPU family supports. Every row of the GPU table has a source and a confidence label: tested means our lab confirmed it, upstream and vendor-docs mean a project or vendor page says so, and community means reports we could not confirm. We did not have access to old or AMD hardware, so the tests that would turn those rows into “tested” (T-ERR-05 on an old PC, T-PERF-05 on an AMD PC) have not been run, and the picker says so instead of guessing.

Requirements by version

These numbers are the project’s own, from the DXVK wiki and its edit history (checked 7 Nov 2026). Two things to know. Windows 7 and 8.1 are not supported: the wiki says issues from outdated Windows versions are ignored. And the 3.x requirement of Vulkan 1.4 is the release notes’ wording; the wiki adds that older AMD GCN cards are expected to keep working even though they do not advertise 1.4.

GPU families at a glance

The newest DXVK line each family can run, by platform. Read the word in brackets: it is how sure we are.

How to check your Vulkan version

On Windows, install your GPU vendor’s latest driver first, then run vulkaninfo —summary from the Vulkan runtime, or open GPU Caps Viewer or GPU-Z. On Linux run the same command in a terminal. You are looking for the apiVersion of your GPU.

          
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We have no desktop screenshots of this on real hardware (lab machines have no physical GPU), so there are none here.

What you see when the driver is too old

These are real messages from our lab. They come from machines with no Vulkan driver at all, not from an old GPU: the message from a real old GPU (test T-ERR-05) is not collected yet.

In the second case a Direct3D 11 program gets error 0x80004005 and a Direct3D 9 program crashes (F32). A driver that reports Vulkan 1.3 did not stop DXVK 3.1.1 in our lab when the needed extensions were there (F33), but real old GPUs lack those extensions. The errors guide decodes more messages.

Update your driver first

Other requirements

Both 32-bit and 64-bit games work: the archive has an x32 and an x64 folder, and our lab ran both (F01). On Windows, 10 and 11 are the only versions upstream supports. On Linux you need Wine 10.1 or newer for 3.x, and 32-bit games also need the 32-bit graphics drivers installed (F34). DXVK names no CPU requirement. Shader caches use disk space, which grows per game.

Next: download the version you picked, then follow the Windows install guide. For GPUs with no row above, see DXVK 1.10.3 and Sarek; compare 3.x on the DXVK 3 page.