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

[clutton]

On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 21:02 +0300, David Naylor 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-cs/

Tried it on «The dark mod». Don't see any improvements.
With high graphic settings, the game is slow like a shit.
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