Gallium-Nine-Standalone: Making Gallium D3D9 Easier To Use On Wine

[pal666]

stalone

his name has double l

[pal666]

This sounds like a great idea, especially if Nine will work with Zink then.

nine works with gallium, zink is opengl over vulkan. each "over" means "slower".
so nine can't, but wine d3d driver can work with zink, but it would be very stupid do use it with slower backend instead of radeonsi for example. it seems like 95% of commenters just mindlessly parroting some buzzwords

[pal666]

Using SC2 with Vulkan probably would be the best case scenario given it's very CPU limited.

using sc2 with dx9 over vulkan probably would be even more cpu limited than using sc2 with dx9 over gl

[pal666]

I'd say Proton is probably going to wait for DX9 over Vulkan than using GalliumNine.

why would proton wait for inferior solution?

[Dukenukemx]

I still use Sarnex PPA to get my Gallium Nine.

[clapbr]

I'm still using the wine-to-rule-them-all package by TKG https://github.com/Tk-Glitch/PKGBUILDS - very good and always updated if you're in a Arch-based distro.

[gukin]

In some places gallium nine works better, in others it doesn't but the Gallium Nine devs make it easy to switch it in and out. DX9 is pretty mature in both scenarios but it's nice to have a choice.

Most distros eschew Gallium Nine so it does usually require patching the SPEC (at least in my case) file and rebuilding wine.

No matter, anything that smooths the way to a better gaming experience and makes it more possible to not have to resort to installing Win-10 is great.

[cRaZy-bisCuiT]

Nice! Finally! Thanks@devs!

[kyrios]

For end users it is easier, but for distros, I think shipping a patched version of wine for Gallium Nine is still be way to go.

[M@GOid]

I'd say Proton is probably going to wait for DX9 over Vulkan than using GalliumNine.

I wished they did not wait. Right now Proton runs DX9 games like crap, with severe performance limitations. Or they accept Gallium 9 as a temporary solution now, or at last try to make the DX9 to Vulkan faster.