Gallium Nine Improvements Squeeze Into Mesa 19.1 For Better Direct3D 9 Wine Gaming

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Gallium Nine Improvements Squeeze Into Mesa 19.1 For Better Direct3D 9 Wine Gaming

Landing in time for the imminent Mesa 19.1 branching and feature freeze is a set of Gallium "Nine" improvements for improving the Direct3D 9 support for Wine/Proton Windows gaming on Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Gallium-Nine-Mesa-19.1-Lands

[geearf]

Michael Shouldn't "D3D9-to-9 " be "D3D8-to-9" ?

[Michael]

Michael Shouldn't "D3D9-to-9 " be "D3D8-to-9" ?

Whoops yep thanks

[skeevy420]

Michael

Gallium3D state tracker this is increasingly popular with

That needs a bit of editing -- "tracker. These are" or just remove this and change is to are.

[smitty3268]

The patches merged on Tuesday include performance improvements in the D3D8-to-9 code-path, updated the GPU name table, better performance for GPUs with limited CPU-to-GPU bandwidth, new tunables/options, and other improvements that have been queuing up this quarter

Actually the patch updating the GPU name table didn't go in. There was talk about possibly using the marketing name field from amdgpu rather than hardcoding all this in nine, and Axel didn't want to hold up the 19.1 branch.

Everything else made it though.

[cybertraveler]

Does gallium support Direct3D 9Ex?

[mannerov]

Does gallium support Direct3D 9Ex?

Yes, it doesn't add much other non-Ex