Wine 1.9.5 Starts Landing The D3D Command Stream Work

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 1.9.5 Starts Landing The D3D Command Stream Work

Wine 1.9.5 was released today and it's a rather exciting bi-weekly update to the Wine stack...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-1.9.5-Released

[wodencafe]

Awesome! A lot of people have been looking forward to the "CSMT" D3D Command Stream changes for awhile, ever since Stefan Dosinger proposed the initial implementation.

It's great that the work is finally going in.

[artivision]

Slower than apocalypse for a paid company.

[wodencafe]

Slower than apocalypse for a paid company.

Yeah but they're providing a free and open source re-implementation of an already existing commercial product, and with meticulous attention to detail - often fixing bugs that Microsoft has neglected over the years. And they are open to outsider contributions and patches.

[scorp]

Hi, just a question, is Command Stream for D3D the same thing as CSMT which you can use in wine-staging for longer period of time yet? Or are this two different things?

[Dukenukemx]

Now Wine has CSMT? How did I have it for over a year? Oh wait, cause I get Wine from other sources.

[wodencafe]

Hi, just a question, is Command Stream for D3D the same thing as CSMT which you can use in wine-staging for longer period of time yet? Or are this two different things?

AFAIK they are the same, but CSMT (Command Stream Multi Threaded) in Wine Staging has been a work in progress, and thread safety was a big concern, and IIRC the reason it has taken up until now to be incorporated into Vanilla Wine.

[peppercats]

neat, now I can run my games from before 2006 faster

[flubba86]

In my mind the major improvement of this release is the 64bit mono support. I think that will allow applications such as latest versions of solidworks to install correctly, though I haven't tested it yet.

[pinguinpc]

In this wine version appears added begins of CSMT code

However in tests dont appear changes compared with previous stefan dosinger wine git


Wine 1.9.5 + Nvidia 361.28

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