There's A Project Working To Implement Direct3D D3D9 Over Vulkan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: There's A Project Working To Implement Direct3D D3D9 Over Vulkan

Many have hypothesized over implementing Direct3D over Vulkan for helping out the Linux gaming scene and as an alternative to Wine's Direct3D-to-OpenGL wrapper while a developer appears to have taken up the challenge and has been making progress in writing a Direct3D 9 compatibility layer over Vulkan...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SchaeferGL-D3D9-Over-Vulkan

[johnc]

Isn't D3D9 like... 20 years old?

[howie]

I think this cool, very interesting and so difficult to do. I am happy to see so many advanced people such as I find here. keep up this good work please, and thank you.
I really love this web site and all the good work done here. no where else even comes close!

[jntesteves]

Isn't D3D9 like... 20 years old?

Pulp Fiction is old. Imagine if we couldn't watch Pulp Fiction anymore because of the lack of a tape player. Many people would immediately start working on building new tape players. I guess games really are timeless art mediums just like music and movies.

[smitty3268]

Isn't D3D9 like... 20 years old?

How old is X, again?

[computerquip]

How old is X, again?

[ElectricPrism]

How old is X, again?

10????

[bvbfan]

M$ techonologies are waste of time. They are used only to make money.

[Ericg]

10????

Try 30

[Steffo]

The name of the project may prevent other developers of contributing...