[Request for feedback] Improved DirectX in Wine ports (packages available)

[David Naylor]

On Monday, 31 March 2014 22:36:09 illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> On 31 March 2014 13:58, David Naylor <dbn at 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.  
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