DirectX support for Wine

DirectX support for Wine is a set of patches designed to implement DirectX 9 into Wine, making it ideal for 3D graphics and gaming. The patches come with many experimental and beta features that have yet to be included in the stable Wine source tree. The main objective of this project is to provide full support for DirectX 8 and 9, to ensure that all games and 3D applications run smoothly on any platform that Wine supports.

Some features of the "DirectX support for Wine" are shared 'wined3d' codebase for Direct3D 8 and 9, improved compressed texture support, hardware non-power2 textures, offscreen texture enhancements, a wealth of additional texture formats supported, color corrections for textures, bug fixes, and various other improvements from past releases.

The newest release includes a redesigned support system for non-power2 textures, support for vertex buffer objects, improved caching, hardware vertex shaders, and better support for compressed textures. The update also fixes several texturing problems in Axis and Allies and Evil Genius, model corruption in Pirates, and crash fixes in fixupvertices with indexes data. Furthermore, there were improvements to performance, support for caching, and numerous other bug fixes.

In short, DirectX support for Wine enhances the functionality of Wine, making it an excellent option for games and 3D graphics. The patches provide full support for DirectX 8 and 9, allowing games and 3D applications to run smoothly on Linux or any other platform that Wine supports. It is ideal for those who seek improved performance, bug fixes and additional features for their 3D applications and gaming experiences.