Yeah. Whether emulator decreases performance or not is inconsequential. May be your method of emulation is so efficient, that it makes it even faster than the original. Emulation itself doesn't imply any performance specifics. It just refers to the copying of behavior.

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Sure. I'd call it emulation. Synonym - copy, imitate, mimic, behave like.

Wine tries to behave like Windows (copies Windows behavior for the program). It does that translating the calls sure, but it still copies Windows behavior = emulates Windows.

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Quoting: RoosterIt doesn't emulate Windows. It translates Windows system calls into POSIX-compliant system calls.

Which I have no problem calling emulating Windows API.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emulation [External Link]
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emulation [External Link]
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/emulation [External Link]

Your expectation that the word emulation has a narrow meaning of hardware emulation is unfounded.

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"Wine is not an emulator" is a half joke. Not only Wine emulates Windows, it can even emulate x86 on ARM (hardware emulation for the win!) to run Windows programs on Android for example. So not sure what's the point to waste time on arguing about it.

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Itch.io only has a demo: https://iniour.itch.io/a-pirate-quartermaster [External Link]

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Looks fun, I hope they'll release it on GOG and Itch.

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Yeah, yeah. You need super know how and all that. Nope. dxvk works and it's cheaper. Do the math for them.

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Quoting: mosmindless fanboys be mindless fanboys.

Blob proponents remain blob proponents it seems. It doesn't matter. The fact that they are using dxvk speaks for itself.

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Quoting: mosare. you. fcukin. serious?

Totally serious. Proprietary wrapping is thing of the past. Today it's going to be either a proper native port or dxvk / vkd3d-proton, unless you didn't pay any attention.

That's how FOSS works. Once it reaches quality level, not using it becomes silly.

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Quoting: mosWell supported DXVK is an oxymoron. It's a third-party catch-all solution, which the devs would never ever actually support. We can't even be sure they'll tinker much with the source to get it work better. There were similar examples.

Again, I'd take that over proprietary wrappers any time. dxvk has proven itself to be very high quality.

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