DirectX support for Wine project enables DirectX 9 support for Wine, which is useful for games and 3D graphics.

DirectX support for Wine is a set of patches against Wine to implement DirectX 9. It allows modern games and 3D applications to run under Wine.

The patches include many experimental and beta features that have not yet made it into the stable Wine source tree.

The aim of the project is to provide full support for DirectX 8 and 9 so that all games and 3D applications will run on Linux or any other platform that Wine supports.

Here are some key features of "DirectX support for Wine":

· Shared wined3d codebase for Direct3D 8 and 9
· Hardware non-power2 texstures
· Improved compressed texture support
· Many more texture formats supported
· Offscreen texture improvements
· Colour corrections for textures
· A tonne of bug fixes and other improvements from earlier releases

Whats New in This Release:

· Reworked support for non-power2 textures
· Support for Vertex buffer objects
· Support for caching
· Hardware vertex shaders
· Partial tidyup of vertex declarations
· Better support for compressed textures
· Fix for texturing problems in Axis and Allies and Evil Genius
· Fix for model corruption in Pirates
· Movies in Pirates
· A Fix for the lines on the landscape in Axis and Allies
· Crash fixes in fixupvertices with indexes data
· Numerous other performance improvements