Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 09:47:53 +0300 From: David Naylor <dbn@freebsd.org> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Request for feedback] Improved DirectX in Wine ports (packages available) Message-ID: <5353401.zuhR4icZCF@dragon.dg> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkobbW43zgD5beuic73qibXfYo33hgd4Ee5oN37JkhMm-w@mail.gmail.com> References: <1785079.HNl4MgFCL5@dragon.dg> <CAHHBGkobbW43zgD5beuic73qibXfYo33hgd4Ee5oN37JkhMm-w@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart38800969.OvQzfJ9ktm Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" On Monday, 31 March 2014 22:36:09 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > 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-c > > s/ > 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)? Any 3D, or DirectX, program that does not run with sufficient performance or reliability could benefit from this. If your "ancient stuff" runs well enough for you then alas no improvement possible. --nextPart38800969.OvQzfJ9ktm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQJ8BAABCgBmBQJTQQasXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ5NDhFQzUxMUEyN0YwMzAyRTc5OUI1M0FB RDYzRkE4REQ2QjJEQTU1AAoJEK1j+o3WstpV03UP/1WV369aghYfUMMP5e89usEj BFHhNP3s1i87Rjlry8lyz4rTrvuBjR2aX9BcHo5YhAgJGUjTC2+BEL5ZJ6essqlw RO9ow/O1u5fT4n2IIia+wGz7qBRlb86ZtwRROlRW5OHO9d0BRrcxiWIaGHTIH2qk XJmUklQfkpkAKHa+PKhETQoTTl0ETUyn9vNhqAx4hNfjO+eVfW5zKQDbYGHNsyHe 3yUeHcDDOpf/qq2qLqm2XPtpOcpTbiqIGQzD7FJ5TeiM+qHgPQJUM0eUulP1cEsa Qlpo71L0BS0X6RoY4GQ4behj0OiRY1h/7GXivyOR8laB9iSOQfMwJUiWX+x6r4zX zSAhBrzYkhHjY+LDpvpm+aoGq3Np8KUAPup6vepIwFeE3XAcgWHJh2waYpmoBBzW Dp+1aizF/8zVrMtYB4YxNG7T120kKyTE3BfZbhGuhUfTn4PjgJBZvl2vXwyUyAl7 QpWtJ3VJb9cGscyYqynSy/CTf0vPis/XPl1HVQG1Sqe7fEKpXg+Ld67vZ0hE8IMD yRJDcph9q7dvL7qAAlycqJKMcKMHTvs/nmQpTt5T5is27sC6KigvGS6yK48NsmVB DS9N7kOiZjuFJWQlN88aiadBtCz4YdOWSLN5KlaRul9z/68HzpYrd4yRvHZ6I0Zu dJBZkKtsW5VOCfwRtHSA =JRed -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart38800969.OvQzfJ9ktm--
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