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Installing Wine with DX9

Posted by timothy on from the pop-cork-consume dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Latest DX9 Features? by Rezonant · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, but they were greatly reworked and expanded with DX9.

  2. Re:Latest DX9 Features? by oliverthered · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...Except many games and applications don't use shaders or stencil buffers.

    Vertex shaders are an important part of the rendering pipeline but stencil buffers and pixel shaders aren't, most applications don't require shaders at all this includes recent games like Half-life 2 and Pirates.

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