Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

Wine D3D Code Now Defaults To OpenGL 4.4 Contexts

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 24 May 2018 at 05:39 AM EDT. 11 Comments

Wine's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer will now default to using OpenGL 4.4 contexts rather than legacy OpenGL contexts.

The change was made yesterday by CodeWeavers' Henri Verbeet for defaulting to GL 4.4 contexts. Most Linux GPU drivers out there aside from when using outdated hardware are capable of OpenGL 4.4.

The Wine D3D development progress can be tracked here.

11 Comments

Wine 9.6 Adds Support For Advanced AVX Features In Register Contexts

Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review

Wine 9.5 Released With More Feature Work, 27 Bug Fixes

Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver

Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.