Wine Developers Are Still Working On Direct3D 10/11 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine Developers Are Still Working On Direct3D 10/11 Support

Besides covering the shortcomings of Gallium3D's Direct3D 9 implementation for Wine, Stefan D?singer of CodeWeavers also provided a look at the overall state of Wine's Direct3D/graphics support while he was in Brussels at FOSDEM...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-D3D10-Core-FOSDEM-15

[Sin2x]

So the work on CSMT is stalled and d3d9 patches, while being complete and useful, are not accepted. I don't know how to call this other than 'sabotage'.

[Ekianjo]

Does that sentence even mean anything ?

Among recent progress made is fullscreen focus loss handling, continued work on Direct3D 10, multi-threaded D3D command stream (CSMT) work has stalled, and an update on performance monitoring.

[Kemosabe]

So the work on CSMT is stalled and d3d9 patches, while being complete and useful, are not accepted. I don't know how to call this other than 'sabotage'.

csmt bundled with wine-staging-1.7.35 fixes a severe flicker problem. I am too lazy to look for the bug id but dark souls II is affected and many more games. -> It is being worked on csmt
There is a incomplete not really working workaround for this because it's one of the more severe issues. Take a look at the bugtracker. I can imagine some minor patches are ignored until this is fixed (without csmt). What patches are you talking about?
Csmt being blocked upstream in favor of d3d10/11 restructuring makes sense and is known for ages ...

I really can't see any conspiracy.

[Sin2x]

csmt bundled with wine-staging-1.7.35 fixes a severe flicker problem. I am too lazy to look for the bug id but dark souls II is affected and many more games. -> It is being worked on csmt
There is a incomplete not really working workaround for this because it's one of the more severe issues. Take a look at the bugtracker. I can imagine some minor patches are ignored until this is fixed (without csmt). What patches are you talking about?
Csmt being blocked upstream in favor of d3d10/11 restructuring makes sense and is known for ages ...

I really can't see any conspiracy.

"The work is stalled" means that any existing problems will not be fixed, neither anything new will be added. On a sidenote, I wonder why there is no mention of a severe performance regression that happened at v1.7.13 and hasn't been fixed. It can be clearly seen on the graphs.

[Kano]

For me it is time to switch over to wine-staging. Prepared an update script for Kanotix (Debian) users to make that as simple as possible. It is very stupid that Wine mainline is so much behind, CSMT is available in CrossOver but not in Wine, I see absolutely no logic behind that. What i really hate is the state of dwrite, it did never work for Steam and you have to disable it always. Maybe disabled should be the default state for this...

[sobkas]

csmt bundled with wine-staging-1.7.35 fixes a severe flicker problem. I am too lazy to look for the bug id but dark souls II is affected and many more games. -> It is being worked on csmt
There is a incomplete not really working workaround for this because it's one of the more severe issues. Take a look at the bugtracker. I can imagine some minor patches are ignored until this is fixed (without csmt). What patches are you talking about?
Csmt being blocked upstream in favor of d3d10/11 restructuring makes sense and is known for ages ...

I really can't see any conspiracy.

To play Dark Souls 2 I use d3dadapter, it gives a big speed up without any problems.

[Kano]

Debian has no mesa package with libd3dadapter9.so.0 - and I do not intend to patch that myself. All what would usually happens is that you think of a package name that the original maintainer will use another name for it (happened a few times for me already). If there is a package (+dev package) for that maybe wine-staging could support that too, but most likely only for sid. You don't have to care about it if you use Nvidia binary anyway - i would never recommend using oss drivers for hardcore gamers - fglrx is crap however, but that's not my fault.

[Ouroboros]

FWIW, I created mesa git and Wine+Wine Staging(includes CSMT pacthes) Copr Fedora 21 repos last week if anyone wants to try them:

• https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/griever/mesa-git/
• https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs.../wine-staging/

Their SPEC/SRPM files were taken and modified from Fedora Rawhide. I'm not sure how long I'll maintain them, so you may be better off taking the SRPMs and creating your own Copr/OBS.

[sobkas]

Debian has no mesa package with libd3dadapter9.so.0 - and I do not intend to patch that myself. All what would usually happens is that you think of a package name that the original maintainer will use another name for it (happened a few times for me already). If there is a package (+dev package) for that maybe wine-staging could support that too, but most likely only for sid. You don't have to care about it if you use Nvidia binary anyway - i would never recommend using oss drivers for hardcore gamers - fglrx is crap however, but that's not my fault.

Well I made some packages for that:
libnine1-mesa
libnine1-mesa-dbg
libnine1-mesa-dev
It's broken, it smells like a old cabbage

https://github.com/sobkas/something.git