Grand Theft Auto Running On Direct3D Natively On Linux Shows Gallium3D Potential

[Kemosabe]

The only game I'd still need on Linux is MS FSX, which has no FPS problems, despite its very high demands on the hw, but some other alike:
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23007

It is your fault if you decide to use FSX while there is a technically far superior product out there running natively on Linux and is available on Steam. You know what i am talking about ...
There is no point in using abandoned windows software from stonage

[blackout23]

Yeah , keep in mind that , on this video , the graphics card is at 0a performance level , it is still 4 times slower than top memory clock speed
Also another thing , aside from fps , is that the temporary freezes while loading stuff are completely gone on most games , especially games like skyrim , mafia 2 ( this one still has some graphics issues to be sorted )

I wonder. Since the ENB Enhancer for Skyrim injects something into D3D9 would that also be possible in the Wine version with the State Tracker?

[tizbac]

I wonder. Since the ENB Enhancer for Skyrim injects something into D3D9 would that also be possible in the Wine version with the State Tracker?

if it alters windows d3d9 code , it won't work , because it expects microsoft code at microsoft choosen addresses , that's why most games have to be cracked to run on wine , it's because DRMs are heavily obfuscated and make assumptions about DLLs layout, so they won't work on wine, or anything that is not windows

[justmy2cents]

Yeah , keep in mind that , on this video , the graphics card is at 0a performance level , it is still 4 times slower than top memory clock speed
Also another thing , aside from fps , is that the temporary freezes while loading stuff are completely gone on most games , especially games like skyrim , mafia 2 ( this one still has some graphics issues to be sorted )

saying game will work 4x faster is not making sense. once you hit cpu bottleneck it doesn't matter how fast your gpu is. but, i have to admit it would be interesting info i'd like to know

[tizbac]

saying game will work 4x faster is not making sense. once you hit cpu bottleneck it doesn't matter how fast your gpu is. but, i have to admit it would be interesting info i'd like to know

I've not said the game will be 4x faster , but the clock frequencies on the video are 4x slower , so there's still plenty of room for performance improvement maybe

[edoantonioco]

Cool, but if it is not mainlined, I just cant use it.

[blackout23]

From the D3D 10/11 commit message (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...c1b8903d438b):

Fglrx and nvidia drivers can also be supported by writing a Gallium
driver that talks to them using OpenGL, which is a relatively easy
task.

Wouldn't that be possible for d3d9 as well?

[marek]

From the D3D 10/11 commit message (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...c1b8903d438b):

Wouldn't that be possible for d3d9 as well?

Yes, that would work for proprietary drivers and Intel, but it would probably be even slower than what wined3d is doing now.

[artivision]

Yes, that would work for proprietary drivers and Intel, but it would probably be even slower than what wined3d is doing now.

And what if we do it D3D9_ST -> Gallium -> AMD_IL. Well you will provide the IL front-end.

[marek]

And what if we do it D3D9_ST -> Gallium -> AMD_IL. Well you will provide the IL front-end.

AFAIK, AMD IL is only a shader representation/language, it's not an API and as such cannot represent D3D9 states and draw commands. It's pretty useless by itself.