Waitable DXGI Swapchains Game Compatibility List

[netborg-afps]

Since this isn't well documented, it's probably a good idea to start compiling a list here. Waitable DXGI Swapchains are Microsoft's offical way for low-latency in DX12. Most games that do support them get pristine mouse input and frame pacing with vkd3d-low-latency, very similar to the Nvidia Reflex path.

The real list of games is probably 100 times as large, as possibly 20-30% of all DX12 games may use them. The following games have been verified to use Waitable DXGI Swapchains:

Dead Space Remake
Devil May Cry 5
Forza Horizon 4
Overwatch (also has Reflex)
Resident Evil 2
Tom Clancy's The Division 2
Warframe
Wuthering Waves (also has Reflex)

If you test your favorite games and find any that actively support Waitable Swapchains, please drop a comment below to help grow this list! We probably should also have a list with already checked games that don't use Waitable Swapchains, so we avoid redundant work.

[Eckoa]

Resident Evil 2
Devil May Cry 5

Im willing to make a solid bet that RE3 Remake should be on this list because RE2/RE3 afaik run identical engine versions and DMC5 should be the same or slightly older version.

[netborg-afps]

Yes, RE engine games were probably all using Waitable Swapchains until they switched to Nvidia Reflex on the most recent titles.

[Eckoa]

ill test it when i get the chance to officially confirm

[thyazide]

Seems to work in Darktide. Using DXVK_CONFIG="dxgi.hideAmdGpu=True" DXVK_NVAPI_ALLOW_OTHER_DRIVERS=1 %command% I was able to enable reflex + boost, and the framerate has increased.

[MangoNYCr]

Sadly Darktide doesn't support this
waitable dxgi swapchain present percentage: 0.0%, total frames 4096

[netborg-afps]

Yes, but that's not an issue. You can use Nvidia Reflex in Darktide.
To engage the low-latency frame pacing, a game needs to use one of those:
EITHER nvidia reflex
OR waitable swapchains.
If a game uses both (happens very rarely), NVIDIA Reflex has priority (if enabled in game options).

[Akezhar]

Does this mean that if a game has waitable swapchains simply using vkd3d-low-latency will automatically use the low-latency frame pacing on an AMD GPU without any environment variable?

[netborg-afps]

Yes, exactly - Waitable Swapchains are a simple concept which is basically "part of DX12" and games won't check the GPU vendor for this.

I still don't know how many games are using it, but my guess would be 20-30%?

[Akezhar]

That's great news, I'll report here if any of the games I play use them.

[Akezhar]

Wuthering Waves
vkd3d-proton:sleep: waitable dxgi swapchain present percentage: 99.9%, total frames 2048