Wine's VKD3D Merges Support For macOS Gamers To Enjoy Direct3D 12 Over Vulkan Over Metal

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine's VKD3D Merges Support For macOS Gamers To Enjoy Direct3D 12 Over Vulkan Over Metal

The support we talked about earlier this month for offering VKD3D-based Direct3D 12 support on macOS for Windows games/applications running under Wine is now merged...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VKD3D-Merges-MoltenVK

[tildearrow]

Typo...

and then that being consumed by the Metal graphics drivers on the systen.

[FireBurn]

I wonder if this will appear in the Mac steam client too

[schmidtbag]

Mac's performance has already suffered a lot over the years. You'd think Apple would realize all this API overhead is going to make their platform look worse, but I guess such suggestions just... go right over their head.

[Hibbelharry]

I think Metal converts everything into a PDF Document internally before outputting that Document via Quartz Extreme which is OpenGL.

Oh all these layers. Does anyone remember the OSI model for networks, with applications residing in layer 7?