Direct3D 9 Support Released For Linux Via Gallium3D, Running Games

[ACiD]

Distros who engage in politics do not have it try: yum search winetricks

Distros who engage in politics at the cost of end user experience should die. Like yesterday.

[Ramiliez]

So, how can I install the Direct3D 9 state tracker?

and I would like to see benchmarks of this patch enabled against the default wine (if its possible).

usedul links

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-July/041900.html

quickstart howto

https://github.com/chrisbmr/Mesa-3D/blob/gallium-nine/src/gallium/state_trackers/nine/README

[edoantonioco]

So, how can I install the Direct3D 9 state tracker?

and I would like to see benchmarks of this patch enabled against the default wine (if its possible).

[Dukenukemx]

Whatever happened to the DX9 state tracker? Anyway for us to get the modified Wine and test it out?

[ethana2]

My Radeon 4850 box is only used for Civilization V since it went on sale on steam.. it's the reason I upgraded to Linux 3.11rc3 and the latest mesa to try to get improved performance. If someone makes a ppa for this, I'll totally use it.

[Ramiliez]

What's special about including winetricks?

Distros who engage in politics do not have it try: yum search winetricks

[Kostas]

You could try Sabayon they even include winetricks and Skype in their base repos.

What's special about including winetricks?

[Ramiliez]

Two can play at that game: winemac.drv is too platform specific (OS X only, and they even support X11!). It should be removed from wine immediately.

When it lives next to wined3d and is switchable by a registry key AND it falls back to wined3d in case of error AND the underlying architecture has already seen preliminary ports to BSD, Haiku and even Windows, how then, pray tell, is it too platform dependent?

Im afraid that your work wont be accepted to Wine
If they reject it you could try to convince distro maintainers who do not engage in politics to include your D3D support as package
You could try Sabayon they even include winetricks and Skype in their base repos.

[duby229]

Two can play at that game: winemac.drv is too platform specific (OS X only, and they even support X11!). It should be removed from wine immediately.

When it lives next to wined3d and is switchable by a registry key AND it falls back to wined3d in case of error AND the underlying architecture has already seen preliminary ports to BSD, Haiku and even Windows, how then, pray tell, is it too platform dependent?

Your work is fantastic. This code is OSS. It's so good in fact that I'm certain someone will maintain a patchset. I'm convinced that it will still be available regardless of if it gets accepted upstream or not.

[zhasha]

Let us imagine a hypothetical future. One where Gallium3D gets ported to BSD, OpenSolaris, Haiku, MacOSx, whatever... At that point in time I would then say that this patch should get accepted upstream by the wine devs. Until then however it is too platform dependent.

Two can play at that game: winemac.drv is too platform specific (OS X only, and they even support X11!). It should be removed from wine immediately.

When it lives next to wined3d and is switchable by a registry key AND it falls back to wined3d in case of error AND the underlying architecture has already seen preliminary ports to BSD, Haiku and even Windows, how then, pray tell, is it too platform dependent?