Please post dxvk logs and make a apitrace if able. Then it will be easier to take a look.
The logs usually appear next to the exe.

Does the version in the title imply that it was working for you with 2.3.1?

Game gets stuck on black screen on my setup. Works fine with native DirectX 9, apitrace and logs are attached. Will try making the game run windowed as my monitor blacks out for a bit, the game may be changing exclusive fullscreen resolution in a funky way.

System information

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
• Driver: 24.6.1
• OS version: Windows 11 23H2
• DXVK version: 1.10.3, 2.3.1 and 2.4.0

Apitrace file(s)

• scarface.trace

Log files

• scarface_d3d9.log

Never did work with any version at all, simply gives me a black screen.

I tried going back to ancient versions with RADV driver, no dice; it never worked with DXVK. WINED3D works fine however.

Can you also post a apitrace where it doesn't work with dxvk. Might get something from comparing them

But the game barely runs, literally the screen is blacked out

@Blisto91 How do I do that exactly? Game boots into black screen and crashes whenever I click around. I tried putting dxgitrace.dll from apitrace along with d3d9.dll and dxgi.dll of DXVK next to the game executable; didn't work. Tried using apitrace trace scarface.exe but that also didn't create any trace files on desktop. In all of the cases, the game boots into black screen.

On Windows or Linux?

Oh, sorry, I tried taking apitraces on Windows.

Put the apitrace d3d9.dll next to the game exe and the dxvk d3d9.dll in some folder you've created, where ever. Then in the Windows environment variable gui set APITRACE_FORCE_MODULE_PATH to the path of the folder with the dxvk dll. This will make apitrace use it instead of the system one.
You can just delete the env var again when you are done.

Thank you for the instructions. I started the game, waited a few minutes then force quit. The resulting scarface.trace is just 2 bytes. Also tried running the apitrace with -a d3d9 argument, same result; unable to replay.

If the log is anything to go by it locks up before even creating a swap chain, which is weird. Has this game ever worked with any version of DXVK?

Trace replays fine here, so there might be window message shenanigans going on perhaps, but not sure.

Based on what you seen, what does that mean?

@koffiato thank you for the attempt but the trace with dxvk is sadly empty yes.
I have managed to find a cheap copy of the game so I should be able to give it a poke here next week.

@koffiato thank you for the attempt but the trace with dxvk is sadly empty yes. I have managed to find a cheap copy of the game so I should be able to give it a poke here next week.

I could've just given you a copy bru

Apitrace from Windows with and without dxvk: https://drive.proton.me/urls/206PB23WP0#yAyK1z1Fq12Z

These are made with the game also using the SilentPatch but it freezes/crashes the same with dxvk on first frame.

Try using GangstaPatch, it's here on GitHub too

@K0bin @mirh @doitsujin @Blisto91

Installing D3D9 Wrapper by ThirteenAG in game root

Replacing d3d9.dll of DXVK with C:\Windows\SysWOW64\d3d9.dll

Its not solution but game works with DXVK.... and the wrapper repository available in GitHub

I'm not sure i understand what you mean

@Blisto91 the game not working with DXVK if install dxvk(d3d9.dll) in game root only, and shows only black screen...

but if install d3d9-wrapper also in the game.. then game work with DXVK..... but both have some .dll which is d3d9.dll..........

so I put and replace dxvk d3d9.dll in system folder

You probably already know this but i am just going to put out a disclaimer to others.

DO NOT REPLACE THE WINDOWS SYSTEM DLLS WITH DXVK UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. YOU'LL LIKELY BRICK YOUR INSTALL

But yes thanks. I assume it is working around the dxvk issue via windowed mode or some other tweaks.

Its not solution but game works with DXVK....

Yes, I know.... Thats why I write above

You probably already know this but i am just going to put out a disclaimer to others.

DO NOT REPLACE THE WINDOWS SYSTEM DLLS WITH DXVK UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. YOU'LL LIKELY BRICK YOUR INSTALL

But yes thanks. I assume it is working around the dxvk issue via windowed mode or some other tweaks.

This is a bad "solution".

No one has said it was a solution. The original issue stills stands ofc.

Unorthodox "chaining", but anything will do when grasping at straws I guess..
Can you track down which option may be the fix?

ForceWindowedMode = 1 is working
(if set to 0, then game stuck at black screen)

Which is i noticed but not remember, I will check tomorrow again

I reckon you already tried to play with dxvk's dpiAware, enableDialogMode, and deviceLossOnFocusLoss options?

This is the only option used always enableDialogMode

@mirh I Try with this, but still black screen stuck

dxvk.hud=full
d3d9.enableDialogMode=True
d3d9.dpiAware=True
d3d9.deviceLossOnFocusLoss=True

& In D3D9-Wrapper, This Line set to 1 is Working ForceWindowedMode = 1

You don't have to use d3d9-wrapper with dxwrapper (even though I guess you could try it for starters, to make sure you got the syntax of the RealDllPath value right).
And if EnableWindowMode=1 doesn't do the trick.. then indeed it must not be just a matter of windowed mode alone (maybe check FullscreenWindowMode, WindowModeBorder and DisableMaxWindowedMode for starters).

Yes! Try and working with dxwrapper windowed mode... but not stable
like no-sound and also newGame stuck (even without DXVK)

But I think its Confirm! issue is fixed by WindowedModes related tweaks...

Yes! Try and working with dxwrapper windowed mode... but not stable like no-sound and also newGame stuck (even without DXVK)

But I think its Confirm! issue is fixed by WindowedModes related tweaks...

Have you tried using GangstaPatch?

@Sagatt yes tried... But it's trusted?

Gangstapatch look like stealing entire code of silentPatch, fusionFix, d3d9Wrapper and some other mods (which is already open-source) and compile into one.... no mention credit and not mentioned what actually change? It really trusted?

@Sagatt yes tried... But it's trusted?

Gangstapatch look like stealing entire code of silentPatch, fusionFix, d3d9Wrapper and some other mods (which is already open-source) and compile into one.... no mention credit and not mentioned what actually change? It really trusted?

I never had any problems using it, BUT i also wish their code was open source, it used to be so frankly I think it's stupid to keep it closed, for that reason I get where you're coming from.

But I think its Confirm! issue is fixed by WindowedModes related tweaks...

Which one specifically?

But I think its Confirm! issue is fixed by WindowedModes related tweaks...

Which one specifically?

ForceWindowedMode = 1 no matter which mode use like window or borderless

now one thing about DxWrapper

[General]
RealDllPath                = C:\DXVK\d3d9.dll

[Compatibility]
EnableD3d9Wrapper          = 1

This two work individually (no matter if use at same time or one ON and other OFF)

[d3d9]
EnableWindowMode           = 1      // like windowedmode
FullscreenWindowMode       = 1      // like borderkess windowedmode

something is working OTHER THEN EXCLUSIVE FULLSCREEN MODE

I Mean DXVK only Crash(notWorking) with Game Exclusive/Default Fullscreen Mode

I thought you had said the game still got suck when using dxwrapper WindowedMode options, but I guess you meant in the menu then? Anyhow, FullscreenWindowMode should be it then.

And even that has a bunch of things it does.. It changes the window style, it forces the window position and it peeks the window to avoid the desktop thinking it's unresponsive.
Either there's some odd ass magic with the former, or the game is doing something weird with the window size..

Can you try to play with the windows compatibility settings (from the game executable properties), or with the InitialWindowPosition dxwrapper options?

using InitialWindowPosition still same as before

and only newGame crash, not save game and its dxwrapper issue (without DXVK still new game crash after cutscene)

So doesn't work and no support?

DXVK works with Scarface, even the latest version. I used Gangsta patch & set in the settings.ini borderless fullscreen. The game runs, but, the pop-in and object loading is way slow even slower than vanilla dx9. Performance was good though, but sometimes the game crashes when it cannot load the objects. Running in native dx9 has no such issues and pop-in is like ps2.

Not besides that the graphical issues have been fixed.

this game still can't able to run with DXVK without using windowed or borderlessWindowed (using wrappers).....

with DXVK + ExclusiveFullscreen, game still not able to run

How do i run the game on Windowed mode?
Is there any tutorial

@niresh1234 @Zul479 like I said before, DXVK works with this game only on windowed borderless mode otherwise it will just crash or freeze at startup. What you need is latest Gangsta patch and asi loader & its not compatible with fusion fix so remove it before using. Now after copying it to game directory, go to settings.ini, specify your resolution height and width at the top and under windowed section select Mode=2 and save. Now paste dxvk dx9 in it and run. The game should work but the pop-ins are worse than vanilla dx9 and there are crashes too (don't know if its fixed now). So, for me this game is an exception to just play with vanilla dx9 & fullscreen.

@niresh1234 @Zul479 like I said before, DXVK works with this game only on windowed borderless mode otherwise it will just crash or freeze at startup. What you need is latest Gangsta patch and asi loader & its not compatible with fusion fix so remove it before using. Now after copying it to game directory, go to settings.ini, specify your resolution height and width at the top and under windowed section select Mode=2 and save. Now paste dxvk dx9 in it and run. The game should work but the pop-ins are worse than vanilla dx9 and there are crashes too (don't know if its fixed now). So, for me this game is an exception to just play with vanilla dx9 & fullscreen.

Not work for me at all.

@niresh1234 @Zul479 like I said before, DXVK works with this game only on windowed borderless mode otherwise it will just crash or freeze at startup. What you need is latest Gangsta patch and asi loader & its not compatible with fusion fix so remove it before using. Now after copying it to game directory, go to settings.ini, specify your resolution height and width at the top and under windowed section select Mode=2 and save. Now paste dxvk dx9 in it and run. The game should work but the pop-ins are worse than vanilla dx9 and there are crashes too (don't know if its fixed now). So, for me this game is an exception to just play with vanilla dx9 & fullscreen.

@Mrblubb before commenting anything..... check-out this entire thread..... Everything about Fullscreen and Non-Fullscreen already discussed.....

@Mrblubb before commenting anything..... check-out this entire thread..... Everything about Fullscreen and Non-Fullscreen already discussed.....

Maybe if you weren't eager to reply to get attention but actually read and applied what I said, you'd be playing the game yourself kid. Anyways here's quick footage that the game works with dxvk
https://youtu.be/ps43hddgXU0

Maybe if you weren't eager to reply to get attention but actually read and applied what I said, you'd be playing the game yourself kid. Anyways here's quick footage that the game works with dxvk https://youtu.be/ps43hddgXU0

@Mrblubb next time commenting anything..... you should check-out this entire thread

I can play game with DXVK with FusionFix (I mean without applying what you said)

Note: screen recording looks blurry because GitHub 10mb limit

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5762b080-bd5e-4608-8587-872e2d8ccf66

@Sagatt @Aztec2012 @Zul479 Here the package which can run Scarface with DXVK (v2.7.1 already included)

extract to game directory and play..... or play with _run_game.cmd to show dxvk hud.... scarface_play_with_DXVK.zip

@Sagatt @Aztec2012 @Zul479 Here the package which can run Scarface with DXVK (v2.7.1 already included)

extract to game directory and play..... or play with _run_game.cmd to show dxvk hud.... scarface_play_with_DXVK.zip

Not works with Reshade. So only way by now is using Dgvoodoo2.