Darling Refreshed To Run OS X Binaries To Linux

[xeekei]

I hope I can play StarCraft 2 with better performance. The Windows version through Wine is slow, even with Nvidia's excellent drivers.
Using the Mac version through Darling would probably work better, right?

[Delgarde]

I hope I can play StarCraft 2 with better performance. The Windows version through Wine is slow, even with Nvidia's excellent drivers.
Using the Mac version through Darling would probably work better, right?

Why do you think it would work better? Surely that depends entirely on the relative quality of Darling vs Wine, and one of these is a well supported project for which a lot of performance work has been done - and the other is pretty new and struggling for manpower...

[ryao]

Why do you think it would work better? Surely that depends entirely on the relative quality of Darling vs Wine, and one of these is a well supported project for which a lot of performance work has been done - and the other is pretty new and struggling for manpower...

Eliminating the need for DirectX to OpenGL translation should be beneficial from a performance standpoint. Currently, the Windows version of Starcraft II lacks OpenGL support:

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/122575/is-it-possible-to-ask-starcraft-ii-to-use-opengl-instead-of-directx

Having said that, do not expect to be able to run the Mac OS X version of Starcraft II on Linux anytime soon. Darling has a long way to go before it will be able to do something like this.

[Delgarde]

Eliminating the need for DirectX to OpenGL translation should be beneficial from a performance standpoint. Currently, the Windows version of Starcraft II lacks OpenGL support:

True. But even with that translation penalty, I imagine it'd be many years (decades, even) before Darling was mature enough to not only run the Mac game, but to do so with performance even a fraction of that of Wine...

[ryao]

True. But even with that translation penalty, I imagine it'd be many years (decades, even) before Darling was mature enough to not only run the Mac game, but to do so with performance even a fraction of that of Wine...

I did say "do not expect to be able to run the Mac OS X version of Starcraft II on Linux anytime soon. Darling has a long way to go before it will be able to do something like this.".

That being said, I will not attempt to speculate on performance of code that has not even been written yet.

[LubosD]

True. But even with that translation penalty, I imagine it'd be many years (decades, even) before Darling was mature enough to not only run the Mac game, but to do so with performance even a fraction of that of Wine...

Well, the extent of APIs used by most OS X games is quite low. The most critical path (OpenGL) needs no translation, so no risk of performance penalties there.