Unigine Rolls Out More Engine Updates, Ends DX9-Era Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Unigine Rolls Out More Engine Updates, Ends DX9-Era Support

Our friends at Unigine Corp have rolled out another major revision to their cross-platform Unigine Engine. Unigine Engine hasn't seen too much use in PC gaming recently but they're still going strong within the simulation space. These latest round of updates advance their visually-amazing engine even more...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTY0MzI

[Shnatsel]

Does "ending of support for DirectX 9 era hardware" mean that it will no longer run on Mesa which only has OpenGL 3.3 at the moment?

[Rexilion]

I take it games based on this release will not work under wine anymore? That's too bad.

[Ansla]

No, that means they are going to discontinue support for OpenGL 2.x era hardware.

DirectX 9 == OpenGL 2
DirectX 10 == OpenGL 3
DirectX 11 == OpenGL 4

And when using OpenGL renderer they already required 3.2 so this news really is just about Windows and the DirectX 9 renderer.