The Wine project helps bridge this gap and already supports DirectX 9 very nicely. Microsoft’s DirectX graphics technology is only officially supported on Windows, Xbox, and other Microsoft platforms.

Want to stay up to date on Linux, BSD, SteamOS, Chrome OS, and the rest of the World Beyond Windows? Bookmark the World Beyond Windows column page or follow our RSS feed. The patches will of course be contributed to the open-source Wine project, too. While these incremental improvements for game support may seem small (at first), the cumulative improvements for game support will allow for many of these games to ‘just run’ when released.”Īccording to a post on Reddit, this code should be done by the end of 2015, and work has already been underway for seven months. “In the coming months, CodeWeavers will have support for DirectX 11 better controller support and further improvements to overall GPU performance. DirectX 11 Support AndrewL 13y I read NVIDIA believes DirectX 11 wont define GPU sales. 64 GB or larger storage device Note: See below under More information on storage space to keep Windows 11 up-to-date for more details. In other words, CodeWeavers helps fund and support the development of Wine.ĭuring E3 2015, CodeWeavers’ James Ramey posted an update on the CodeWeavers blog: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with 2 or more cores on a compatible 64-bit processor or System on a Chip (SoC). While the DirectX 11 support will make it into CodeWeavers’ product before it makes it to the open-source Wine project, the code will be open-source and submitted for inclusion into the Wine project.

Directx 11 support