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  • Pending Patches Allow Direct3D 9 "Gallium Nine" To Run Over Mesa's Zink Vulkan

    Phoronix: Pending Patches Allow Direct3D 9 "Gallium Nine" To Run Over Mesa's Zink Vulkan

    Mesa's Zink is well known for working to provide a generic OpenGL implementation over the Vulkan API that can be used across hardware/drivers. While still focused on OpenGL-over-Vulkan, with some pending patches it turns out Zink can support Gallium3D Nine for ultimately allowing Direct3D 9 atop this layer...

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  • #2
    What the?

    Don't we have DXVK for this already? It's one layer less than Nine -> Zink -> Vulkan....
    Come on I thought Nine was a direct hardware thing instead of a wrapper?


    Sure, maybe better compatibility than DXVK for Direct3D 9 because it doesn't have to overwrite system libraries (and therefore better for anti-cheats) but... still.

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    • #3
      I suppose this means Nine can run on top of the proprietary nvidia drivers now. Kind of cool, i guess, and might make the WINE devs less hostile to it.
      Last edited by smitty3268; 18 June 2021, 02:48 PM.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by smitty3268 View Post
        I suppose this means Nine can run on top of the proprietary nvidia drivers now. Kind of cool, i guess, and might make the WINE devs less hostile to it.
        So what's again a practical use case for nine, though?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Kemosabe View Post

          So what's again a practical use case for nine, though?
          Besides wine, virtual machine drivers

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          • #6
            I know it sounds kind of stupid. and yeah, maybe it is. but it would be nice to get some progress done towards 3d accel in a virtual machine that isn't aids. id still consider Vmware the only acceptable VMM in that regard.

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            • #7
              Sounds like Valve is building some machine with no native OpenGL support.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by sarmad View Post
                Sounds like Valve is building some machine with no native OpenGL support.
                Makes one really wonder why their upcoming "SteamPal" (most likely AMD APU-based) would only be shipping with the RADV driver, but not RadeonSI?
                Maybe it's a "having full control over the entire software stack" kind of thing?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by sarmad View Post
                  Sounds like Valve is building some machine with no native OpenGL support.
                  Its great for mobile hardware. as many mobile devices have terrible OGL implementations. but usually acceptable vulkan ones.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by tildearrow View Post
                    What the?

                    Don't we have DXVK for this already? It's one layer less than Nine -> Zink -> Vulkan....
                    Come on I thought Nine was a direct hardware thing instead of a wrapper?


                    Sure, maybe better compatibility than DXVK for Direct3D 9 because it doesn't have to overwrite system libraries (and therefore better for anti-cheats) but... still.
                    We do have multiple vulkan and opengl drivers for hardware already - no need to be surprised :P
                    and Gallium Nine is a state tracker, same as OpenGL

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