Viewing topic Implement d3d9 on top of vulkan ?

Title: Implement d3d9 on top of vulkan ?

kalin 7 Mar 2015

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I think is good idea to be start this kind of project. It will make easier to port games/apps from windows to linux,mac and any other os that support vulkan.
I hope someone will contact with valve, wine and sdl guys and share this idea. I also hope that the community will hug this idea and start the project itself.
For regret im not very experienced in 3d programing and can't start this project as stand alone.
pros:
1 open source
2 user space
3 os independent
4 vendor independent
5 widly available
6 give access to d3d9 renderer to our favorite os
cons:
1 require d3d10/opengl 3.3 hardware

fill free to share your opinion.

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crt0mega 13 Mar 2015

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interesting idea.. but we have gallium-nine (d3d state tracker for gallium3d) and it's already a pleasure to use :P

crysis 2 with gallium-nine on an old hd6850:
https://picup.it/p/11802/

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kalin 13 Mar 2015

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But it works only for amd only for open source driver. I like and and i like open source but it's not solution for everyone.

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crt0mega 14 Mar 2015

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it should work for nouveau too. but you're right, it might be nice to see decent d3d9/d3d10 via vulkan on proprietary drivers. it might help other game devs to port their games to linux without the need to deal with wrappers, opengl or vulkan.

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[email protected] 19 Jun 2016

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Sorry to resurrect an old post but I'm working on it. It's on github called Schaefergl

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