Installing Wine with DX9

ts1920 writes "WineCVS is an extensive script for automated installation of different versions of wine and Cedega. Today it has been updated to support wine installation with latest DX9 features. The latest patch level of the script now includes a profile for installing Wine with Oliver Stiebers Direct3D 9 patchset. A short installation instruction and some more detailed information can be found at linux-gamers.net."

Latest DX9 Features?

Latest DX9 Features? I think not. Not all of them anyways.

Notice the page linked to states that pixel shaders and vertex shaders are not supported, and neither are stencil buffers.

Here I was with my hopes up.

Step in the right direction

This is definetely a step forward in process of being able to fully supports games like Half-Life 2 and Battlefield 1942.

Re:Step in the right direction

Well they are fairly well suported with cedega already , I was just playing HL2 the other day on my laptop (running ubuntu). I would rather see more games makers using OpenGL for games , however this is a nice step forward in getting the current and previous crop that are not working under cedega , also it is nice to have alternates

Goes a long way to bring Linux to the desktop

Two projects are bringing Linux and Windows closer, and Linux closer to the conquest of the desktop: Samba and WINE. This was one of the best things in WINE I've seen in months... DirectX now. Once this has been polished up, and made usable enough for most gamers, the windows market can suffer a serious dent.

But only if WINE can run: Giants!

Detailed Instructions??

I didn't look too close but what I saw was basically download, complie, and "you should know what to do from here".

What if I don't? Even the instructions think they're superior. I think I'm going to go sulk now.

Re:Detailed Instructions??

I would assume that if you have a full tool chain on you PC, and found an artical on ./ that you would know how to google for wine. Failing that wait until everything is upto scratch and in the Wine tree at which point it will be bundled pre-compiled with you faviorate distro, Mandrake may even be tempted to do another Gaming adition. You then either have the option of, using the payed for support that comes with you distro to help you with any problems. (You can get this option with Windows, but it's a lot more expensive), finding someone to support you, or flicking through your local paper and finding a computer 'expert' to pop round and give you a hand. or you could always sponsor some work to resolve the problems you are having.

If your having problems today you can always send me an email, I may take a couple of days to get back to you, as I have limited resources, but you will get a reply.

I should imagine that this is more than you would ever expect or get from any other product you have ever purchased in your life, and certainly more than you would get from Windows.

FWIW, I've also been working on migrating Windows setting over to Linux so that knopix will pick-up all the hardware, network and user information from and windows install present on the machine.
I've also done some work on intergrating Windows meta-information with KDE.
So yes the end game is you can walk into any shop, pick up any piece of software from the shelf, stick the CD in and have it install on you Linux box, without some major sponsorship it's a few years down the line, but getting a lot closer than it was a few years ago.