The Big Highlights Of Wine 5.0 From FAudio Integration To Vulkan 1.1 + A Ton Of Bug Fixes

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This isn't true, there is missing support for multiple buffers/multiple buffer flipping in early DirectX in WINE. This is why Warhammer Dark Omen still doesn't work properly despite being a DirectX 5.0 game. The error displayed by wine is:
err:ddraw:ddraw_surface7_Flip Can't find a flip target

That is a DX 7 weakness in wine in fact. You have particular Dx 7 games with the exact same problem. Heck it turns up with Diablo II LOD that is DX 8 using DX7 in places.

Fun part about this one I did not say that Wine DX 7 implementation is complete. Also this ddraw_surface7_Flip is in the name. The 7 there is for dx7.

There is no Dx 5 or 6 runtime in windows 2000 and newer. Dx5 and 6 applications on Windows 2000 and newer use the dx 7.

Not all Dx5 or 6 games use that feature. I have a original roll-cage game from 1999 that is Dx6 that works perfectly under wine.

But there are a few missing features that hammer Dx 5-7 applications and some dx 8 applications that use dx7 rendering in places. Fairly much any problem you see effecting a dx 5/6 application there will be another dx7 application out there effected by the same problem because its the same code.

There's also the glaring problem that WINE can't run 16-bit colour modes in 32/24-bit colour X11 sessions. Another issue which affects this title.

Again this is another generic problem effecting a large number of applications. Xephyr can work around that to a point throwing you back to software rendering. Its not exactly wine problem its a opengl /X11 problem from hell. When vendor opengl is in 32 bit mode it does not want to have a bar of 16 bit only color buffers(this is why forced back to software rendering). Same with X11 itself session only is designed to accept 1 buffer type at if it sees more than 1 it kind of get confused..

16 bit color on 32/24 bit session effect native to Linux SDL applications as well.