From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 02:36:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC79C960; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 02:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x22c.google.com (mail-pa0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B01606BD; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 02:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id bj1so9166387pad.3 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:36:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=P4uM0ks2AmZUxGwanNVVVn2IuKMAZZrHWzxpX9BaJlE=; b=L6kNnNwpk2nB8LZoZQkDEJAulmJfo0TpLi6Rzaf2CNHa/rDJgggKz4ghk0PFAqYU53 /ZtroJawLf/fQjxiKHwQl/VbebbbtGhAssfw37LED4sbZbWZpizV1Lklw7l0Sjm/2IzM bz/hcfiB9wvFoTsMaxUq4c9ZmEXroKo1RxlqQasHKG2XDXu1fni+eBODM9yxu+yV0Qhi ld/w5Udg6UVbGj0T3XNaf0yQio2ZzVDzTaDfR/XikaKId9OJf8bPfRiB0WBNhuWdM1lk 7+p/qHIDsxviuBfLGCL1PHYxF+zNMQVwNhFpwRboisF+HBYw1fLNBVaXu2ZWqc3DX3Yd USVA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.164.70 with SMTP id yo6mr28566476pab.85.1396319769279; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.150.41 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:36:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1785079.HNl4MgFCL5@dragon.dg> References: <1785079.HNl4MgFCL5@dragon.dg> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:36:09 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Request for feedback] Improved DirectX in Wine ports (packages available) From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: David Naylor Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: emulations@freebsd.org, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:36:09 -0000 On 31 March 2014 13:58, 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/ 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)? -- --