Direct3D 9 Support Released For Linux Via Gallium3D, Running Games

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by Matt-D July 17, 2013 06:48 PM

1 comment, last by mdias 10 years, 9 months ago

Matt-D

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July 17, 2013 06:48 PM

Seems interesting: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQxMjk

Has anyone tried it?

Promit

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July 17, 2013 07:16 PM

Well it seems to mostly be some kind of patch-up mechanism for WINE to Gallium3D, and Gallium3D only supports the open source drivers for the GPUs. So personally I have to say that's not very interesting at all.

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mdias

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July 19, 2013 05:34 PM

I hear it can only be used with Wine because of other windows-ish dependencies that Wine implements.

As Promit says, only some FOSS drivers use Gallium. AMD Radeon (<=HD 6XXX series) cards being the best supported on Gallium (but still behind closed-source drivers on 3D performance), it won't be very interesting for the common game developer. Even intel's official FOSS drivers don't use Gallium (there's a 3rd party effort to do so). That leaves many users out.