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Wine to use mesa Direct3D

Summary

Enhancing mesa and wine with Direct3D9 support will increase performance and reduce resource usage in applications which using D3D9 framework.

Owner

  • Name: Igor Gnatenko
  • Email: ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org
  • Release notes owner:

Current status

Detailed Description

Developers: Axel Davy (davyaxel@free.fr)

When playing d3d9 games on Wine, their d3d9 calls are translated to OpenGL. This is complicated process, because you have to deal with different drivers having different extensions available, and the fact that OpenGL and d3d9 don't map perfectly together. Gallium Nine implements the d3d9 API with Gallium internal API, which maps better to d3d9 than OpenGL. You remove some layers of translation in the process which enables better performance. Gallium Nine is not as mature as Wine OpenGL translation, and it is likely to have more bugs, but when the games work, you can expect 5-10% improvement for gpu limited games, or much more (sometimes 100%) for cpu limited games.

what is Gallium: Gallium is an internal graphic driver abstraction of Mesa to enable support of non-opengl languages more easily (it is used for vdpau and vaapi on r600/radeonsi for example). It is used by nouveau and r300 up to radeonsi for AMD. Intel OpenGL support doesn't use gallium, but a gallium driver named ilo exists, but isn't sponsored by Intel.

In practice, games have also smoother frame rate on Gallium Nine. Gallium Nine has good DRI_PRIME support, and if you have a system with an iGPU+dGPU, you can play without issues with the parameters DRI_PRIME=1 thread_submit=true

https://wiki.ixit.cz/d3d9

TODO List
Description Assignee Status References
Enable Direct3D9 state tracker in mesa Igor Gnatenko
Pass pass
[1][2]
  1. ↑ http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mesa.git/commit/?id=dc2fc7918e7ba9fc5ded9f59e0b5d3725414ece6
  2. ↑ http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mesa.git/commit/?id=21449d7adf357239bf8982165d29676b2611cd06
Land d3d support in wine Axel Davy and Igor Gnatenko
Inprogress inprogress
[1]
  1. ↑ https://github.com/iXit/wine
Hardware compatibility List
Hardware Status References
AMD (r300-r500)
Warning warn
[1]
  1. ↑ some game will work, not all of them
AMD (r600-radeonsi)
Pass pass
Nvidia (nv50-nvc0)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ minor issues on some games that won't trigger on amd
Intel (ilo)
Fail fail
[1]
  1. ↑ Driver not advanced enough for now
Intel (i915)
Inprogress inprogress
[1]
  1. ↑ untested. Probably won't work

Benefit to Fedora

Users wanting to play d3d9 games on Wine will get better experience when using Gallium Nine when it works

Scope

  • Proposal owners: work on the Mesa Direct3D support
  • Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

  1. # dnf install wine
  2. Check if mesa-d3d installed automatically
  3. Run some benchmarks/games in wine

Expected results: no problems and more better performance

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: Revert and try to do in next release
  • Contingency deadline: beta freeze
  • Blocks release? No
  • Blocks product? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

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