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    Phoronix: A Ton Of Direct3D 9 "Nine" State Tracker Improvements Hit Mesa

    For those relying upon the "Nine" state tracker for Direct3D 9 support implemented for Gallium3D drivers in order to yield faster performance when running Windows games with Wine, you'll want to pull down the latest Mesa Git code...

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  • #2
    FYI, here's the patch notes: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ry/106021.html

    Among the fixes and improvements:
    . Some menu now displaying properly
    . Games correctly stop rendering when alt-tab
    . Some Crash fixes
    . Some games that didn't start now do
    . Some rendering issues are gone
    . A new drirc option to advertise a card from another vendor (for example NVidia owners should advertise AMD for Skyrim in order to get water working properly)

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    • #3
      I just wish POL incorporated Nine into the WINE versions it packages, at least for the games that run better with it.

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      • #4
        GalliumNine would be more useful if it wasn't limited to brand of cards :/ Wish it worked with Intel.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by gutigen View Post
          GalliumNine would be more useful if it wasn't limited to brand of cards :/ Wish it worked with Intel.
          It's not limited to brands of cards but rather gallium drivers since it's an gallium state tracker.

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          • #6
            Maybe i should start testing it again, then. Last time i did games could hard lock my entire system.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by yoshi314 View Post
              Maybe i should start testing it again, then. Last time i did games could hard lock my entire system.
              Isn't that more of a kernel-side issue rather than Gallium?

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              • #8
                I'll have to do some tests as well. It was breaking on nearly every game I tried except for WoW.

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                • #9
                  Some rendering issues are gone? That sounds nice, as that's what has been preventing me from using it. Anyhow, I'll wait until 11.2 is released before checking it out.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by smitty3268 View Post
                    FYI, here's the patch notes: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ry/106021.html
                    ...
                    . A new drirc option to advertise a card from another vendor (for example NVidia owners should advertise AMD for Skyrim in order to get water working properly)
                    Does anyone knows the reason why it behaves like this ?

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