Fedora's Wine Package Has CSMT Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora's Wine Package Has CSMT Support

Those using Fedora's Wine packages have easy access to enable command stream multi-threading (CSMT) support for Direct3D games to enable better performance...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg2MzQ

[magika]

Holy Lord! They apply little short of a thousand patches!

[adlerhn]

Holy Lord! They apply little short of a thousand patches!

That's surprising indeed. May all of these changes not have been accepted by upstream Wine? If so, why? May there be dirty workarounds that Wine devs didn't like, or maybe those patches are just still under consideration?

[artivision]

Good, now do Gallium_Nine with Wine and then Fedora version upgrade like normal updates via GUI and one button.

[souenzzo]

Fedora will support DX9 without support MP3!!!!

[schwarzman]

well, let's shed some light into this:
1. Fedora does not add custom patches on top of wine (http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/w...ine.spec?h=f21)
2. However Fedora enables all(?) patches from wine-compholio.

Quoting the compholio github description:
"The idea behind Wine Staging is to provide new features faster to end users and to give developers the possibility to discuss and improve their patches before they are sent upstream."

This means for example it should be possible to use pipelight with the stock Fedora RPMs.


As a side note: Fedora's mesa will also enable gallium-nine support in F21 once 10.4 hits stable (via the mesa-d3d subpackage, see spec file, koji build).

[schwarzman]

Btw: mesa 10.4.0 (and LLVM 3.5) was just submitted for updates-testing

[eydee]

That's surprising indeed. May all of these changes not have been accepted by upstream Wine? If so, why? May there be dirty workarounds that Wine devs didn't like, or maybe those patches are just still under consideration?

Why? Because wine devs don't have their priorities right, while Fedora devs do. The point of wine is gaming. Everything else has alternatives. Still, wine developers struggle to be feature complete with windows 999 instead of making sure games run as well as possible. Surely wine internet explorer and d2d are more important...

[Kemosabe]

AFAIK this is csmt@git: https://github.com/stefand/wine
But it's for 1.7.31?!

//Edit: Ah ty, schwarzmann

[Thetargos]

Just how do you go about to enable it?