DirectX 9 and linux

[preacher]

Well I use wineX to play windows games on my linux box, and simply put, right now it doesnt have support for directX9, however it occurred to me that all I would have to do is download the executable and install directX 9 using wineX. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? My geforceFX 5200 ultra can use the new features that directX 9 has, however without using windows, I see no way of playing some of the new games coming out, like half life 2. However the good news is that Doom 3 uses openGL. Why cant everything use openGL? I could always install windows 2000 professional in a dual boot setup, but I like linux and having to use windows for any reason is depressing.

I was reading benchmarks of games when using WineX to play them, and on the same hardware, they performed at half the speed of running it natively in linux. If anyone is interested in the article check out http://www17.tomshardware.com/howto/20020531/windows_gaming-04.html#quake_iii_arena_windows_v_linux

It really is an intersting article. When running Quake 3 in linux with the same hardware, the game received better scores than when using windows. In that test the games were running natively. However once the emulator was used to play quake 3, performance decreased on linux drastically. The point being that if you own Quake 1-3, RTCW, Unrael 2003, or any other native linux game, it will perform better than the windows game running in an emulator.

With this in mind, I installed SimCity 4 and its performance is definitely lacking considering that my system is pretty powerful compared to the system requirements.

[ July 23, 2003: Message edited by: ThePreacher ]

[Stryker]

I doubt the setup program would load. being as how it's a microsoft product. They know about wine, i'm sure they made it hard to install.

I'll try it when i get linux installed.

[emh]

I would venture to say that it wouldn't work.  WineX uses a special programming (I don't know the technical term) to emulate DirectX.  They don't use DirectX itself.  At least that's how I understand it.

[solo]

emh: no, it uses builtin dlls, the directx setup would just add the new dlls and winex would use those. provided stryker isnt right and m$ doesnt block it.

 

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The great thing about WineX is that it is still fairly new, and just like Linux, it keeps getting better. Support for DirectX 8 will continue to improve and the kernel module should give a noticeable performance boost when it arrives. Since you can try WineX for as little $15 (the cost of a 3-month subscription), I recommend it to anyone that is already running Linux. Go ahead and download the precompiled binaries and give it a test drive.

kernel module? for what????

[emh]

Well, then I guess you have nothing to lose by trying it.  :-\

[excyle-the-art-fag]

They didnt make it hard to Install IE 6.0 with Crossover Office.

Crossover Office will run many things, macromeda flash among them. And Photoslop, errm, I mean Photoshop.

But I dont have $10,000,000 to pay for photoshop so I use gimp, which costs nothing, and I can modify it without having to spend 6 months reverse engineering to get myself jailed as a "pirate".