GNU Linux native api opengl direct3d
A developer of Gallium free graphics library of VMWare has announced the implementation of Direct3D layer natively on Linux. A medium that can open a new way for implementation of video games in Linux because it is not a conversion between Microsoft multimedia libraries and OpenGL as currently performed Wine, but 'd3d1x' (that's the name this library) is run natively communicate directly with the graphics driver and hardware.
Thanks to the architecture of Gallium, this will support Direct3D "free for all Linux drivers with little or no effort" and that could be implemented "with a thin layer on Gallium instead of the huge amount of code needed for OpenGL" Luca Barbieri explains the developer.
Wine is obviously also a major benefit by taking advantage of this implementation because it does not need OpenGL, and direct conversion to provide it with support for DirectX 11 API, which currently does not possess and that is simple to implement as advertised, as well as drivers Manufacturers of graphics such as NVIDIA Nouveau already using Gallium libraries.
For the future, Barbieri, commitment to provide a superior alternative to OpenGL and graphics programming in non-Windows, thanks to the implementation made from scratch that despite its early development stage and can run some demos in DirectX 10/11 Linux.
"Next-generation games to run natively and seamlessly on Linux? It seems that the dream can be fulfilled. By the way, do not know how Microsoft will drop the news. Media like Slashdot and called the news with a suggestive "DX11 comes to Linux (but not Windows XP)" in allusion to the lack of support from the API to the ancient but still widely used system, wondering if Linux will support this API soon Microsoft's better than Microsoft itself. "
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Thanks to the architecture of Gallium, this will support Direct3D "free for all Linux drivers with little or no effort" and that could be implemented "with a thin layer on Gallium instead of the huge amount of code needed for OpenGL" Luca Barbieri explains the developer.
Wine is obviously also a major benefit by taking advantage of this implementation because it does not need OpenGL, and direct conversion to provide it with support for DirectX 11 API, which currently does not possess and that is simple to implement as advertised, as well as drivers Manufacturers of graphics such as NVIDIA Nouveau already using Gallium libraries.
For the future, Barbieri, commitment to provide a superior alternative to OpenGL and graphics programming in non-Windows, thanks to the implementation made from scratch that despite its early development stage and can run some demos in DirectX 10/11 Linux.
"Next-generation games to run natively and seamlessly on Linux? It seems that the dream can be fulfilled. By the way, do not know how Microsoft will drop the news. Media like Slashdot and called the news with a suggestive "DX11 comes to Linux (but not Windows XP)" in allusion to the lack of support from the API to the ancient but still widely used system, wondering if Linux will support this API soon Microsoft's better than Microsoft itself. "
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