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Linux to Support DirectX 11

  • 01-11-2010 8:23am
    #1
    PogMoThoin
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    It's a pity Luca Barbieri or any Mesa / Gallium3D developers are not at Oktoberfest as they are deserving of more than a few Maß of Augustiner. In fact, today a new Gallium3D state tracker was pushed into Mesa and it's perhaps the most interesting state tracker for this open-source graphics driver architecture yet. It's a state tracker that exposes Microsoft's DirectX 10/11 API on Linux! And it's already working and can be hooked into Wine!

    Luca Barbieri made a rather significant commit today that adds a state tracker dubbed "d3d1x", which implements the Direct3D 10/11 COM API in Gallium3D. Luca says this is just the initial version, but it's already working and can run a few DirectX 10/11 texturing demos on Linux at the moment. This is not a matter of simply translating the Direct3D calls and converting them to OpenGL like how Wine currently handles it, but is natively implemented within Gallium3D and TGSI to speak directly to the underlying graphics driver and hardware. Thanks to Gallium3D's architecture, this Direct3D support essentially becomes "free" to all Linux drivers with little to no work required.

    As said in the commit, "The primary goal is to realize Gallium's promise of multiple API support, and provide an API that can be easily implemented with just a very thin wrapper over Gallium, instead of the enormous amount of complex code needed for OpenGL. The secondary goal is to run Windows Direct3D 10/11 games on Linux using Wine."

    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_gallium3d_d3d11&num=1


Comments

  • #2
    Khannie
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    Nice!!!


  • #3
    PogMoThoin
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    I'd honestly dump windows if I could play modern games


  • #4
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    I've stopped playing games tbh. The lack of Unreal 3 on linux did that to me. I wouldn't go back to windows even for games now. The linux advantage is just that big for me.


  • #5
    VenomIreland
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    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    I'd honestly dump windows if I could play modern games

    Same, I'd dump 7 for Arch Linux in a heart beat if it was better supported (if at all) by games developers.


  • #6
    Naikon
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    VenomIreland wrote: »
    Same, I'd dump 7 for Arch Linux in a heart beat if it was better supported (if at all) by games developers.

    I would give at most 5 years before things start to pick up. The ubuntu software center has two games in it at the moment. With the advent of Android and increased Linux desktop use, expect companies to take stock in the not too distant future.


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  • #7
    Naikon
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    Khannie wrote: »
    I've stopped playing games tbh. The lack of Unreal 3 on linux did that to me. I wouldn't go back to windows even for games now. The linux advantage is just that big for me.

    At least the indie devs are making stuff. Linux isn't a great games platform, but there are options for the non hardcore gamer. OSS games like Wesnoth and OpenTTD are worth looking into too. Aquaria too.


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