Directx

Directx

The project Gallium3D of freedesktop.org, so we discolocar by an implementation of the Direct3D API natively on an operating system GNU / Linux, an option that can be extended to other operating systems.

To date, the only way to run software that requires calls to these libraries under GNU / Linux was to go to emulation with Wine, which criminalized the performance, speed and program stability to intercolocar a software layer in the execution (and this having been constructed by reverse engineering process, which can not be known for sure whether they respond correctly in all scenarios).

Thanks to the work done by freedesktop.org, with Gallium3D calls to the API of DirectX will be resolved against a native software, of course, be faster and more stable than the current form of emulated execution.

The main beneficiary of this development will be the games industry, since it will facilitate the adaptation of existing Windows titles that take hold of DirectX to GNU / Linux. Another thing is that the studios want to carry out such an operation, since until now the only penguin platform has represented barely 1% of desktops worldwide, and the dominance of Windows among PC gamers is incontestable .