Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:36:09 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: David Naylor <dbn@freebsd.org> Cc: emulations@freebsd.org, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Request for feedback] Improved DirectX in Wine ports (packages available) Message-ID: <CAHHBGkobbW43zgD5beuic73qibXfYo33hgd4Ee5oN37JkhMm-w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1785079.HNl4MgFCL5@dragon.dg> References: <1785079.HNl4MgFCL5@dragon.dg>
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On 31 March 2014 13:58, David Naylor <dbn@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > It has been requested by some community members that the custom DirectX patches by stefand [1] be integrated into the Wine port. As this requires a non-trivial amount of work I would like to assess the community's interest in these patches. > > For those who do not know what these patches do: it is reported that they improve the performance of DirectX games and could possibly fix regressions on FreeBSD. > > To try out the packages please either install the packages directly from the mirrors [2] or issue the following commands: > # mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos > # fetch -o /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos http://people.freebsd.org/~dbn/repos/wine-cs.conf > # fetch -o /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos http://people.freebsd.org/~dbn/repos/wine-cs.cert > # pkg update > # pkg install -r wine i386-wine-cs > > The packages, although labelled 1.7.15 (for the Wine version they are based on) are based on cs-0.6. > > If you find the packages useful, please report back to me. If there is sufficient support (i.e. enough people reply in the positive) then I'll publish the packages on a regular basis and maintain the appropriate ports. > > Regards > > [1] https://github.com/stefand/wine/releases > [2] http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/dbn/repos/wine-cs/ It would be a pleasant change, assuming it doesn't cause occasional lockups. Are there any particular applications that would be worth testing (I doubt the ancient stuff I occasionally run under wine will be heavily influenced by these improvements)? -- --
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