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Yeah, I relized that after I finished writing the article. I'm gonna try to keep graphics debugging to a minimum, but I realize that there's gonna come a point where I will need to do so. I'm also going to make sure and use D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_0. I also have a VS2012 Pro license so I can write both the tutorial for both methods.
That was one of the things I was contemplating before writing this article. I then decided to go with 32-bit because I understand that there are going to be those who won't be able to get their hands on 64-bit Windows (or hardware that supports it).
Once all these (and whatever else I think up) are completed, I'm thinking of maybe switching pace a bit and writing a "Game Development with X11 and OpenGL 4.3" type series that will cover the same concepts, just for X11/OpenGL rather than Win32/DirectX.
If you are going to use PIX in future documents for debugging, please be aware that this will not work on windows 8 any more. MS has moved graphics debugging into VS2012 Pro and hasn't updated pix to understand the DX11.1 runtime.
Hi, so I've been trying to install and run rabbids coding on wine (yes I know, I play these types of games). And it gave me an error about directx 11 not installed.So I went ahead and tried to install d3dx11_43 using winetricks. But one of the "cabextract" commands returned an error value. It was:
Also /home/arashk/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/temp is empty if you're wondering. I tried running it on a clean 32 bit bottle but same result. I have wine 5.19, 64 bit bottle. Any effort at helping is appreciated.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people around the world. Some companies that are or have been involved with Wine development are CodeWeavers, Bordeaux, TransGaming, Corel, Macadamian and Google. See Acknowledgements and Wine History.
Wine increases the usefulness of Linux, makes it easier for users to switch to free operating systems, and for Windows developers to make applications that work on them. This greatly raises Linux marketshare, drawing more commercial and community developers to Linux.
When users think of an emulator, they tend to think of things like game console emulators or virtualization software. However, Wine is a compatibility layer - it runs Windows applications in much the same way Windows does. There is no inherent loss of speed due to "emulation" when using Wine, nor is there a need to open Wine before running your application.
That said, Wine can be thought of as a Windows emulator in much the same way that Windows Vista can be thought of as a Windows XP emulator: both allow you to run the same applications by translating system calls in much the same way. Setting Wine to mimic Windows XP is not much different from setting Vista to launch an application in XP compatibility mode.
"Wine is not just an emulator" is more accurate. Thinking of Wine as just an emulator is really forgetting about the other things it is. Wine's "emulator" is really just a binary loader that allows Windows applications to interface with the Wine API replacement.
Wine is the base of the project, where most of the work is being done. Wine is not perfect, but tens of thousands of people nevertheless use "vanilla" Wine successfully to run a large number of Windows programs.
CrossOver is a product made by a company called CodeWeavers that is based directly on Wine with a few tweaks and proprietary add-ons. Unlike the biweekly Wine releases, CrossOver releases are rigorously tested for compatibility with CodeWeavers' supported applications in order to prevent "regressions". CodeWeavers employs a large proportion of the Wine developers and provides a great deal of leadership for the project. All improvements to Wine eventually work their way into CrossOver.
Proton is a compatibility tool comprised of various software, developed by Valve for use with their proprietary Steam client. It is a bundle consisting of a fork of WINE, DXVK - a translation layer for converting Direct3D 9/10/11 API calls to Vulkan, VKD3D-Proton - Valve's fork of VKD3D for translating Direct3D 12 to Vulkan, FAudio, and a wide range of experimental patches to increase performance and/or compatibility for video games. It is only intended for use within the proprietary Steam client, though nearly all of its components are open source, and it is capable of running non-Steam software. The Steam client also provides drop-in support for other user-created compatibility layers, such as forks of Proton. All improvements to WINE will eventually work their way into Proton, just like CrossOver.
Cedega (formerly WineX) was a product from a company called TransGaming. TransGaming based their product on Wine back in 2002 when Wine had a different license, closed their source code, and rebranded their version as specialized for gamers. In the years since Cedega was originally created from Wine, development on Wine and Cedega continued mostly independently, until the discontinuation of Cedega in 2011. TransGaming gave back very little code to Wine. Wine has had years of development since Cedega was discontinued, and has surpassed Cedega in compatibility. Notably, for a long time Cedega still had more advanced copy protection support due to TransGaming's licensing of (closed source) code from a handful of copy protection companies. Unlike CrossOver and Proton, most improvements to Wine didn't get into Cedega due to the license differences between Cedega and Wine. Cedega has been unsupported for many years, and its usage should be avoided.
Normally you do not have to use the command line to use Wine in Linux. You can use a graphical interface for most things, much like on Windows. In many cases you can right-click an installer and select "Open with Wine", or just double-click it. You can start installed programs using the shortcut icon or menu.
However, there are several situations when you might need to use the command line. The most common reason is to get debug output when your program does not run properly. You might also want to use utilities such as regedit that do not have menu shortcuts (note that you can create them using whatever tools your DE provides).
Thousands of applications work well. As a general rule, simpler or older applications tend to work well, and the latest versions of complex applications or games tend to not work well yet. See the Wine Application Database for details on individual applications. If your application is rated Silver, Gold or Platinum, you're probably okay; if it's rated Bronze or Garbage, Wine isn't really ready to run it for most users. If there aren't any reports using a recent version of Wine, however, your best bet is to simply try and see. If it doesn't work, it probably isn't your fault, Wine is not yet complete. Ask for help on the forum if you get stuck.
One area where every Wine user can contribute to this project is by sending high quality bug reports to our Bugzilla and helping the developers with any followup questions that they may have about your bug. It is impossible and impractical for a developer to have a copy of every program on the market, so we need your help even after your initial bug report. If a developer has a good idea what might be causing the bug, he or she may ask if you can try a patch and see if it fixes the problem. If the patch works and then makes its way into our main development tree, the bug report will be closed, your help will be appreciated by everyone and your problem will be fixed.
Bug reports should be submitted to our online Bugzilla system. To increase developer productivity and facilitate a resolution to submitted bugs, please read the Wiki article on Bugs. A poor bug report may be marked INVALID and closed, leaving you no closer to resolving your problem. High quality bug reports are an essential part of making Wine better.
Wine, along with the operating system you use to run it, generally requires less disk space and memory than Windows itself. If you're not currently running a Windows application, Wine won't consume any resources at all other than about 1.4 Gigabytes of disk space.
Ideally, if an application runs fine in Windows, it should run fine on the same hardware using Wine, provided native drivers for your hardware are installed and equivalent to the Windows drivers. Open source Linux graphics drivers in particular are often inadequate to run games that work fine on the same hardware in Windows. If there is no native driver for your hardware, Wine will not be able to use it.
Mostly. Wine is written to be filesystem independent so MS Windows applications should work on virtually any full-featured UNIX filesystem. The key exception is that not all filesystems / drivers support every feature of fat32 or NTFS. One example is that the ntfsv3 drivers do not support shared-write mmap, a feature that cannot be emulated and is used by applications such as Steam.
Until recently with projects such as Wayland, serious alternatives to x11drv weren't even on the horizon so development has focused on X. However, Wine's interface with the graphics driver is designed to be abstract so supporting future graphics systems will hopefully be straight-forward.
Short answer: Use the version that works best with the particular applications you want to run. In most cases, this will be the latest development version; however, in some cases it may take some experimenting to find it.
Longer answer: Wine development is rapid, with new releases in the development branch every two weeks or so. Functionality will usually be best with the most recent development version, however, there are cases where changes to existing code in Wine cause applications that worked well in older versions to not work in the new one (these are called regressions), as well as problems caused by the introduction of new, but as-yet-incomplete and untested, functions.
A good rule of thumb is to start with the version of Wine installed with your distro and see if that works with the applications you want to use. If it does, good! If it doesn't, upgrade. In most cases the upgrade should be to the latest development version, but it is a good idea to check Bugzilla and the AppDB for any known regressions and/or new bugs. If you find an existing bug marked STAGED, this means there is a patch for the problem in wine-staging (the experimental branch), and you should try the latest version in that branch. If there are known bugs without a STAGED patch or easy workaround, upgrade to the most recent version of Wine known to work for your application.
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