Hi All:
I've been running wine 2.3 on gentoo. Direct 3D work great and I can play age of empires III no problem.
I tired installed installing wine 2.3-r4 from the bobwa overlay and it has slightly different build flags:
For example:
This one is in wine-2.3:
+ - d3d9 : Apply highly experimental patches for Gallium
Nine support. This patch may break some
applications.
But in wine 2.3-r4 and all versions after, this flag is gone but this one appears:
- - vulkan : Apply Wine Staging patches for Vulkan support.
Now, whether I enable vulkan support or not (from reading I should not since I have a radeon running open source drivers) directx no longer works.
I have tried the following versions,
2.7, 2.3-r4, 2.17-r1....
directx will work on none of them, I get this error:
err:module:import_dll Library d3d9.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Games\\Age of Empires III\\age3.exe") not found
Which is nonsense, the driver is there. I downgrade to wine-2.3 and directx works again. Upgrade to anything above 2.3 with vulkan enabled or disabled and the errror above comes up.
Just thought I'd share that if the devs are interested.
Cheers,
john
Vulkan support breaks DirectX
Re: Vulkan support breaks DirectX
@John,
Sounds like you really need to switch over to the newer Gentoo multislot Wine packages... See Gentoo Wiki / Wine: New Packaging ...
Check your Gentoo news feed items for: 2017-04-10-split-and-slotted-wine (10 April 2017) ...
If you need the D3D9 patchset - then you need the main Gentoo multislot:
NP makes a point of supporting the D3D9 patchset very well there...
I don't support the +d3d9 USE flag on my ::bobwya Overlay Wine packages - because:
is not nonsense! I deliberately don't include the Gallium D3D9 patchset! So of course the associated d3d9.dll won't exist either!
To be fair - I don't provide a +d3d9 USE flag - so it should be obvious there won't be support for this 3rd party patchset...
To this end:
is your friend! No +d3d9 USE flag there = no support.
To emphasis my ::bobwya Overlay Wine packages have diverged significantly from the Gentoo Wine packages - they are not just updated versions!
Like any Overlay packages - they should be used at your own risk and without any official Gentoo support.
As for the +vulkan USE flag it's just a toggle for the Wine Staging Vulkan-passthrough patchset: wine-staging / patches / vulkan-Vulkan_Implementation ...
Which has absolutely nothing to do with support for the Gallium D3D9 patchset...
Bob
Sounds like you really need to switch over to the newer Gentoo multislot Wine packages... See Gentoo Wiki / Wine: New Packaging ...
Check your Gentoo news feed items for: 2017-04-10-split-and-slotted-wine (10 April 2017) ...
If you need the D3D9 patchset - then you need the main Gentoo multislot:
- app-emulation/wine-d3d9
- app-emulation/wine-any
NP makes a point of supporting the D3D9 patchset very well there...
I don't support the +d3d9 USE flag on my ::bobwya Overlay Wine packages - because:
- I can't test it (I've only got Nvidia cards - using the proprietary driver)
- it's also not officially supported by the Wine Project - yet... See: Add support for Mesa's Gallium "Nine" statetracker #333 ...
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err:module:import_dll Library d3d9.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Games\\Age of Empires III\\age3.exe") not found
To be fair - I don't provide a +d3d9 USE flag - so it should be obvious there won't be support for this 3rd party patchset...
To this end:
Code: Select all
equery uses app-emulation/wine
To emphasis my ::bobwya Overlay Wine packages have diverged significantly from the Gentoo Wine packages - they are not just updated versions!
Like any Overlay packages - they should be used at your own risk and without any official Gentoo support.
As for the +vulkan USE flag it's just a toggle for the Wine Staging Vulkan-passthrough patchset: wine-staging / patches / vulkan-Vulkan_Implementation ...
Which has absolutely nothing to do with support for the Gallium D3D9 patchset...
Bob