Wine 1.7.0 Released, Starts Again With The Changes

[Thaodan]

If they're not accepting FOSS d3d9 drivers in WINE, then they're pulling a Sun Microsystems. Maybe WINE is being turned into the next MySQL? A fork would also allow for a rebranding.. How much of WINE is from codeweavers vs community contributors?

Without NVIDIA or AMD/ATI support its useless.

[duby229]

Well that all is going to change with Xbox One.

Yeah, before most games used DirectX 9 so they could be ran on old consoles like Xbox and Xbox 360.
But now with Xbox One, all new games are probably going to use DirectX 11.

I'm not sure what the exact number is, but I'd be willing to guess that there are thousands of d3d9 games. Many of which are awesome.

[uid313]

Well if you consider the amount of games that don't even use directx 10 yet, still lots of games coming out that only use 9 it won't be that long before wine actually becomes truely awesome, especially for older titles.

Liam of GamingOnLinux.com

Well that all is going to change with Xbox One.

Yeah, before most games used DirectX 9 so they could be ran on old consoles like Xbox and Xbox 360.
But now with Xbox One, all new games are probably going to use DirectX 11.

[liamdawe]

Well if you consider the amount of games that don't even use directx 10 yet, still lots of games coming out that only use 9 it won't be that long before wine actually becomes truely awesome, especially for older titles.

Liam of GamingOnLinux.com

[Xilanaz]

If they're not accepting FOSS d3d9 drivers in WINE, then they're pulling a Sun Microsystems. Maybe WINE is being turned into the next MySQL? A fork would also allow for a rebranding.. How much of WINE is from codeweavers vs community contributors?

you should relax a bit, if you really trying to compare codeweavers to sun microsystems then you need some new perspectives. As for how much wine is from codeweavers and how much from the community, no idea, but I as a community member with little programming knowledge support wine development by supporting codeweavers and I am happy I do, they do a lot for wine and I doubt wine would be where it is now without them.

[ashkbajw]

Nothing about input? In wine 1.5.13 raw input worked well, in 1.6 it works, but mouse warp doesn't work anymore in at least Risen, so you can only rotate about 360 degree before hitting the edge of the window.

I had no problems at all with minecraft using wine, you could turn 360+ degree without any problem. Although in this and some other games, if you move the mouse too fast it can get out of the window and get released from the game. Happened to me both in minecraft and KaM but only in windowed mode.

[AnonymousCoward]

skyrim crashes during the game load. Civ V seems to work flawlessly with the exception that the ground textures are missing, they just show up black. Supreme Commander seems to load, I can hear the background music as if the game is running, but it just loads a black screen and clicking around randomly doesnt seem to do anything.

According to the report made these games should all work with these d3d9 patches. I'm very interested to try it out.

Skyrim at least should work fine with vanilla wine. I can't speak for Supreme Commander, though.

[uid313]

But that's not a direct reason, is it? I mean, it's just another feature like "If the platform supports dx11 then use it, if not use whatever wine has". A direct reason would be that it'd be too much work maintaining all this.

Yeah, with Xbox One, DirectX 11 will be more important.

I guess Wine could need better 64-bit support and mixed 32/64-bit support.

[ChrisXY]

They didn't accept the original DX11 code because it was Linux specific and Wine/CodeWeavers has to work on Linux, BSD and Mac. Its not that they just said "No screw you"

But that's not a direct reason, is it? I mean, it's just another feature like "If the platform supports dx11 then use it, if not use whatever wine has". A direct reason would be that it'd be too much work maintaining all this.

[peppercats]

What are the most important parts missing in Wine?

d3d11
almost no games will release with d3d9 support shortly anyways, it's dead.
many bigger games are already releasing d3d11-only.