how to use directx10/11?

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:53 pm

Can anyone tell me or point me to information telling me what is the
correct way to use directx 10 or 11 for games in Wine, what do I need to
install to do so, and do I then need to use a special tag (like the
-opengl tag) when starting a game?

I have been googling and having a hard time making sense of the
information I have been finding. Some places reference a 'wine dx10' and
some game forum posts say to install directx 10 or 11 (depending on the
game/video card) via winetricks. I am leery of trying random changes to
my Wine installation when I haven't been able to find instructions on
the Wine site for this to verify the steps.

Das Letzte Einhorn · Post by **Das Letzte Einhorn** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:22 pm

Directx 10 is not supported yet in Wine. You should use the Directx 9 mode for the games you wish to play.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:24 pm

On 6/15/11 3:22 PM, Das Letzte Einhorn wrote:

Directx 10 is not supported yet in Wine. You should use the Directx 9 mode for the games you wish to play.

Some features of DirectX10 ARE implemented in Wine, but not all of
them. DirectX11 is being looked at.

Recommend looking at winetricks for installing DirectX10 or DirectX11.
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks is a good resource for this product
(it is not a Wine product but its creators/maintainers do read the
User's list.)

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:57 am

On 06/18/2011 10:23 PM, James McKenzie wrote:

Recommend looking at winetricks for installing DirectX10 or
DirectX11. http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks is a good resource for
this product (it is not a Wine product but its creators/maintainers do
read the User's list.)

Thank you. I was able to get d3dx10 through winetricks and it looks to
have installed correctly. Do I need to pre-pend or append anything to
the path when starting a game in order for wine to use dx10? I was
unable to find that addressed at the wiki or googling.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:18 pm

tparker wrote:Do I need to pre-pend or append anything to
the path when starting a game in order for wine to use dx10?

It doesn't matter what you do, native DX can not work on Wine. It talks directly to video drivers, which won't ever work on Wine.

And you already got the answer on Wine's state of DX10 & DX11.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 9:37 pm

On 6/21/11 8:55 AM, tparker wrote:

On 06/18/2011 10:23 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
Recommend looking at winetricks for installing DirectX10 or
DirectX11. http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks is a good resource for
this product (it is not a Wine product but its creators/maintainers
do read the User's list.)
Thank you. I was able to get d3dx10 through winetricks and it looks to
have installed correctly. Do I need to pre-pend or append anything to
the path when starting a game in order for wine to use dx10? I was
unable to find that addressed at the wiki or googling.

You should not need to do anything if you used winetricks to use DirectX10.

If you run into problems, please post a new thread message here.

stonix_015 · Post by **stonix_015** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:54 am

Now 1 1/2 years were going past.
Anything new in implementing dx10?

For wine 1.4-stable release it appeart on checklist, but after releasing 1.4 i didnt hear anything more of it...

dj--alex · Post by **dj--alex** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:32 pm

and another year past

No one changes . No one game running from 2008 to 2013 september

on 2013 or 2014 is last years with games with directX9

more and more games drop DX9

dj--alex · Post by **dj--alex** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:27 pm

and yet one year
no one game dx11 cannot be run

i think if wait more yet 1-2 years wine cannot start any new game.

80% of real interest games are DirectX11
Assasin's creed IV
Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor
Bioshock Infinite
Thief
Alien Isolation
Evil within
Lichdom
and of course Battlefield 3,4 and Crysis 3.

unfortunately
and developer even have engines UT4 and CryEngine (having full native opengl and linux support)
not use this possibility (Microsoft pays them?)

TheKingInYellow · Post by **TheKingInYellow** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:32 pm

Another year has passed, it seemed. This is one of the first results when searching the net for "Dx11" and wine, I'm curious if it's possible to get it working on WINE or if there are any recommendations to get Dx11 working in similar programs (playonlinux, winetricks, etc)

I'm unfortunately having one hell of a time trying to figure out how to get dx11 working properly, and having been forced to switch back to using Dx9 on many programs makes me realize there were actual tangible boons to Dx11, atleast at this point. A game like Mount & Blade, for example, runs with WORSE performance in Dx9 mode and is lower in quality. I'm not sure if that's their own problem or not.

Is there any way to find updates on WINE progress on this issue? It's thoroughly frustrating to find information.

I signed up just to partake in this forum, you look like helpful gents.

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 7:53 am

TheKingInYellow wrote: I'm unfortunately having one hell of a time trying to figure out how to get dx11 working properly,

You can't at this point.

Is there any way to find updates on WINE progress on this issue? It's thoroughly frustrating to find information.

Release notes are posted here on the announcements page for each release, e.g., https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.7.52. You can also browse git online to see what patches have been committed each day. http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/

DemonLordx64 · Post by **DemonLordx64** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:49 pm

jjmckenzie wrote:On 6/15/11 3:22 PM, Das Letzte Einhorn wrote:
Directx 10 is not supported yet in Wine. You should use the Directx 9 mode for the games you wish to play.
Recommend looking at winetricks for installing DirectX10 or DirectX11.
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks is a good resource for this product
(it is not a Wine product but its creators/maintainers do read the
User's list.)

How would one go about installing? I knwo how to get to the install thingy but I don't know the package name.