Wine-Staging 2.1 Reworks CSMT For D3D10/D3D11

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine-Staging 2.1 Reworks CSMT For D3D10/D3D11

Riding off last week's Wine 2.1 release as the first post-2.0 bi-weekly development snapshot, Wine-Staging 2.1 has been released that continues to incorporate all of its various experimental/testing patches...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-Staging-2.1

[Hi-Angel]

FTW someone is trying to merge nine into wine-staging https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/pull/333

[leipero]

FTW someone is trying to merge nine into wine-staging https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/pull/333

I'm all for it, for us radeon users that is only valid way to play DX9 games, since CSMT does help, but it's night and day, I get over 2x performance with nine.

[Dukenukemx]

FTW someone is trying to merge nine into wine-staging https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/pull/333

Now that's even bigger news. I'd like to just use Wine Staging. I like using Sarnex as well, but Wine-Staging is kinda the standard now.

[icehand]

What a performance boost on Hitman Absolution with CSMT enabled. Great job!

[AsuMagic]

TW3 has made some great progress thanks to the wine-2.1 update! Now text in menus works and if rendering is broken, it still can get into the game, which is great.

I have got CSMT disabled here, but I get the same results as with it disabled, whereas even the menu was awfully glitchy before.
Sounds like 2017 will be a great year for wine.

[AsuMagic]

Tomb Raider 2013 looks better and gaming is smoother with DX11 than with DX9. Average fps is 60 with Gigabyte RX460 2GB at 1920x1200, normal settings. 45% of the game played with DX11 and wine-2.1 (Staging).

With what GPU? How much better is it than DX9?